These 1930s Cinesound casting books form the heart of the NFSA and National Portrait Gallery collaborative exhibition, 'Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits'.
These 19th century photographic glass slides purport to show images of both the living and the dead.
Just before his 100th birthday, Eddie Vormister (1918–2024) contacted the NFSA about donating his homemade film projector and home cinema set-up.
We mark Home Movie Day 2017 on 21 October with a curated collection of films from the NFSA collection.
'Homicide' premiered on TV on 20 October 1964. Here's 10 things you didn't know about the classic crime drama.
Berlei cinema and television advertisements and educational glass slides from the 1920s to the 1960s offer a window onto Australian fashion and social mores.
Listen to excerpts from Helen Garner reading her award-winning first novel Monkey Grip (1977) on Melbourne community radio in 1980.
Strictly Ballroom choreographer John 'Cha Cha' O'Connell talks about working with Baz Luhrmann and his dazzling career as choreographer to the stars.
Footage of a 1933 AFL face-off between Victorian and South Australian teams gives us rare glimpses of two goal-kicking legends.
Cinema Art Films brought many notable foreign productions to Australia between 1927 and 1932. We've acquired original posters for a selection of their releases.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.
