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Five decades of Australian music TV

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Preservation research

Preservation research

The NFSA is acknowledged as a world leader in scientific archival research.

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Faded Silver

Investigations into a process to intensify the faded silver image to enable the duplicated image to be nearer to the original.
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Ventilated film cans

Investigating film can design and the use of ventilation to remove the catalysing acids that accelerate film decomposition.
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Magnetic stripes

Processes for re-adhering a lifted magnetic stripe.

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Preservation at home

How to care for your audio, film, video and photographs.

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Caring for film

How to care for your film materials.

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A Steam Train Passes
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WINHANGANHA
The acclaimed film by Jazz Money and the NFSA.
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Let’s rewind to 1975 when the tube went technicolour.
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With the leadership and participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, communities and institutions, we seek to better understand the artefacts in our care. 

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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.

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