Stories

For World Home Movie Day 2021, curator Heather Gill highlights the work of Australia's amateur cine societies.

In the first of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker looks at the vital – and often unrecognised – role that women played in bringing the first Australian TV programs to air.

In the second of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker shares stories of some of the women who excelled in technical production areas during the early years of Australian television.

Curator Thorsten Kaeding looks at how and why the NFSA selects – and sometimes excludes – materials from the national collection.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Australia’s most successful TV variety program, we are sharing some rarely seen sequences from 1970s episodes of Hey Hey It's Saturday (1971–2010), including the earliest known surviving colour footage from 1975.

Presenting 12 fascinating facts about TV game shows – from Pick a Box to Perfect Match to the Price is Right.

In 1981, Kit Laughlin released his film ‘The Comeback’, documenting Arnold Schwarzenegger’s controversial 7th Mr Olympia title. The contest took place at the Sydney Opera House on 4 October 1980.

The NFSA pays tribute to the legacy of documentary filmmaker Ian Dunlop OAM (1927–2021).

Samuel François-Steininger has colourised footage from the NFSA collection of the last Tasmanian Tiger in captivity.