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Preservation Services

The NFSA has leading-edge technical facilities and teams of expert technicians, skilled in handling all audiovisual media.

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Film services

Our Film Services team repairs, cleans and copies motion picture material.
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Audio services

The NFSA Audio Services team repairs, cleans and copies a wide range of audio materials and collection items.
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Still Images

The NFSA’s still image collection includes over 90,000 photographs, 80,000 transparencies, 8,000 posters and 7,000 negatives.
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Video Services

Our Video Services experts handle a range of contemporary and obsolete video formats.
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Adventurer Tim Jarvis wearing a balaclava and dragging a sled stacked high with bags across a snowy Antarctic landscape
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Podcast
Who Listens to the Radio?
All six episodes available to binge now.
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30 Years
The Adventures of Priscilla
A digital exhibition devoted to the Queen of the Desert.
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Digital exhibition
Radio 100
Explore 100 years of Aussie audio history.
Detail from the poster for the film WINHANGANHA showing an archival photo of two First Nations men wearing collared shirts and bush hats. The edges of the black-and-white photo is curled up as if on fire, and the collage also features fire and the red, yellow and black colours of the Aboriginal flag
NFSA Commissions
WINHANGANHA
A new film by Jazz Money and the NFSA.
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Third culture kids
Migrant cinema
Moving beyond simplistic and stereotypical representations.
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NFSA Restores
The Alchemy of Restoration
Reflecting on 10 years of the NFSA Restores program.
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Iconic recordings
Sounds of Australia
What are the sound recordings that define Australia?
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Research and innovation
Learn about our landmark initiatives and projects.

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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 lands on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.

Our Statement of Reflection

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.

Enter the NFSA Our Statement of Reflection