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Welcome to the world of The Dressmaker, where haute couture and the Australian outback are brilliantly combined.
When Paris-trained fashion designer Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet) arrives in the...
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Delight in this elegant sample of cinema and TV ads from the 1920s to 1960s for Australian underwear brand Berlei.
The collection also includes beautiful hand-coloured glass slides used to train...
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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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This collection of Cadbury advertisements provides a wonderful snapshot of the changing attitudes towards dating, romance and fun in Australia from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Early Cadbury Milk Tray...
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A tribute to Australian radio and television personality Binny Lum, thanks to the generous donation of more than 100 sound recordings to the NFSA by her daughter, Sharon Terry.
Binny's extraordinary...
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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.
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Three siblings starred in a film. Forty years later, they watched themselves on screen for the first time.
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For World Home Movie Day on 20 October we share early colour home movies of Sydney and San Francisco from award-winning filmmaker and NFSA Ambassador, Anthony Buckley.
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This year, we're marking World Television Day on 21 November by sharing two recent ‘finds’ in the NFSA’s vast television collection.
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Watch three amateur films from the 1950s and 60s on the theme of 'fashion’.
