Stories

Mould, vinegar odours and baby spiders; just another work day for film curators.

The importance of silent film preservation as seen in Hugo.

Audiences loved The Artist, that ode to the early days of cinema, but as Kodak files for bankruptcy, has film lost the battle against digital?

Some of our most notable screenwriters talk about their craft.

The National Film and Sound Archive is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin with a series of special film screenings.

The NFSA celebrates the inaugural World Radio Day on 13 February 2012 with a glimpse into the technical side of broadcasting during the Second World War in Australia.

NFSA conservator Shingo Ishikawa explores some of the ethical dilemmas that his profession is grappling with to remain relevant. Finding ways to preserve the non-physical elements surrounding physical objects is one example of a key challenge facing conservators.

The decade after the end of the First World War was a period of great excitement in aviation and this was reflected by the popularity of aviator songs.

Chris Guster shares a personal perspective on the early days of remote First Nations media groups.

Part 2 of this series, which dives into the fact and fiction behind Frank Hurley's iconic film about Sir Douglas Mawson’s 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.