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Tagged: 1900s
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The NFSA celebrates Australia's own Million Dollar Mermaid - silent movie star Annette Kellerman.
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It's a tradition that long predates the world wide web... cats in costume making us laugh out loud.
The following collection showcases some of our feline friends decked out in vintage garb dating...
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The list of Annette Kellerman's achievements is extraordinary: champion swimmer and diver, vaudeville performer, international silent film star, stunt performer and entrepreneur.
Born in Sydney in...
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The Salvation Army's pioneering multimedia work Soldiers of the Cross premiered at the Melbourne Town Hall on 13 September 1900.
Referred to by the organisation as a 'lecture’, and once thought to be...
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The UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage takes place on 27 October. To celebrate we go behind the scenes with an early cinema home entertainment system: the Kinora.
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Overcoming childhood adversity, Australian silent movie star Annette Kellerman took on the world – swimming, acting, performing and writing herself into the history books.
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Martyn Jolly, Head of Photography and Media Arts at the ANU School of Art, writes about the connection between 'Soldiers of the Cross' and one of the world's first blockbuster films, Italy's 'Quo...
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There are relatively few surviving brown wax cylinders recorded in Australia prior to 1903, which made the donation of one to the NFSA a very exciting prospect for Sound Curator Tamara Osicka.
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Percy Herford was a well known performer in Australia from the 1890s on. 'The Black Watch' is a black wax cylinder record and the only example from the output of the Australia Record Company held in...
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Amy Castles recorded this song from Verdi’s opera Rigoletto in September 1906 in London. It is one of her earliest commercial recordings.
A dramatic soprano, she was born in Melbourne in 1880 and was...