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Take your front row seat for this collection which illuminates postwar Australia through glorious vintage fashion.
Fashion communicates who we are, and who we want to be. Designer Christian Dior...
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Before The Voice, before The X-Factor, there was... Australia's Amateur Hour!
Australia's Amateur Hour was a radio talent show that Australians took to their hearts. It ran from 1940-1958, and...
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See how Mildura has changed in these films and recorded sound items from the NFSA's collection.
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The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.
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A look back at the portrayal of women and men as homemakers and breadwinners in cinema advertising from the 1940s.
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As public gatherings to commemorate Anzac Day in 2020 are not going ahead because of COVID-19, we're sharing home movies of marches from Anzac Day in 1933, 1946 and 1980.
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A recently donated film reveals the only known colour footage of Sir Donald Bradman playing cricket.
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Mark Foy's fashion parades from the 1940s and '50s, featuring designers Pierre Balmain and Schiaparelli, captured in gorgeous colour footage.
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A look at Betty Bryant, once Australia’s most famed film ingénue, who features in the exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits, now open on the Gold Coast.
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For Halloween, we're sharing three full-length episodes of popular horror and thriller radio serials of the 1940s and 50s.
