Bill Armstrong, radio pioneering and sound recording legend is this year's winner of the Cochrane Smith Sound Heritage Award.
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Audiovisual Conservationist Sean Mosely takes us through the process of preparing some original Lumière company films for reprinting.
Students and staff who work with the film collection belonging to the TVN Thoroughbred Racing Archive receive training from Conservation Officer, Pat O'Connor.
In early 1940, with Australia less than a year into World War 2, a 17-year-old George Shirley used his father’s 16 mm movie camera to film RMS Queen Mary arriving in Sydney Harbour.
Grant Scicluna wins the inaugural Orlando Short Film Award for his short film 'Neon Skin'. Grant gives an insight into the world of making short films on the streets of Melbourne.
Australia’s earliest surviving sound-on-film films are of the Duke of York, soon before he became King George VI.
The history of Radio Maubere transmissions is keenly disputed in the Australia-Timor story.
The switchover to digital technology in sound recording and television.
How to save precious film and other audiovisual treasures damaged by water during events such as flooding.
Hear 13 different versions of Waltzing Matilda, inspired by crazes, fads and fashions in popular music through time.
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.