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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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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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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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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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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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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.