We spoke to Malcolm writer/cinematographer David Parker and mechanical designer/1st AD Tony Mahood, two of the creative minds responsible for creating the quirky getaway in 1986 classic.
We take a look at props and designs for the beloved Australian comedy Malcolm (1986), starring Colin Friels.
In September 1956, one sentence – ‘Good evening and welcome to television' – marked the commencement of regular television transmission in Australia.
Did you know that in TV’s early days, a number of talented people built their own TV sets at home?
NFSA Audiovisual Preservation Manager, Danny Dawson, talks to Adam Blackshaw about his career highlights and the challenges of digitisation.
An Adelaide dentist and amateur filmmaker has donated almost 10 hours of footage which helps chronicle the Australian and international Paralympic movement in the 1970s and 80s.
Director Peter Weir and actors Mel Gibson and David Argue promote the 1981 release of their film Gallipoli on the popular The Mike Walsh Show.
In 1979 two young Australians invented the first Fairlight sampling synthesizer and changed electronic music forever. We have one in working condition!
The Australian link between Aspro headache tablets and world-famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his sister Hephzibah.
Ballarat is home to the gold rush and the Eureka Rebellion, two seminal events that shaped Australia's national story.
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.
