The UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage takes place on 27 October. To celebrate we go behind the scenes with an early cinema home entertainment system: the Kinora.
Listen to excerpts from an Oral History interview with Elise Lockwood, the stills photographer on the set of 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' (1994).
The NFSA celebrates Home Movie Day 2019 by participating in a Home Movie Marathon that also coincides with the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.
Dr Liz Giuffre, archivist for Sydney community radio station 2SER 107.3, shares excerpts from a music industry documentary by Richard Kingsmill that was broadcast in 1988.
After successful seasons in Canberra, Adelaide, the Gold Coast, Bathurst and Geraldton between 2017 and 2019, you can now find highlights from the Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits exhibition online.
Before he created and hosted Wonder World!, Simon Townsend had already forged a successful career in TV, print and radio journalism.
The NFSA has acquired 24 glass slides by Walter Scott Griffiths illustrating his alternative vision for Australia’s future capital city.
The NFSA hosted a 20th anniversary screening of The Matrix in 2019 with special guest Executive Producer Andrew Mason.
A look back at the 1970s Australian-US horror-suspense anthology series, The Evil Touch.
Simon Townsend's Wonder World! was a show that changed the face of children's television in Australia.
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.
