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Tagged: 1970s
Exhibition
Storm Boy, the classic Australian film based on Colin Thiele's novel, is now 40 years old.
Collection
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...
Collection
‘MIRANDAAAAAA!’
When asked to name five Australian films, from any time, many people include Picnic at Hanging Rock in their list. A key factor in its enduring appeal is its plot – the mysterious...
Collection
The NFSA recently announced it is collecting Australian video games for preservation. But video games have long had an impact on the NFSA collection.
The clips in this curated collection capture some...
Collection
Homicide, Australia’s first police drama series, premiered in Melbourne on HSV7 on 20 October 1964.
The landmark Crawford Productions' series profiled murder cases handled by the fictional detectives...
Collection
Jeanne Little's catch cry 'Ooooh aaah! Dahling!' is bound to bring back happy memories for viewers of Australian daytime television from the 1970s to the 2000s.
Falling into television 'accidentally...
Collection
Forty years after Simon Townsend's Wonder World! first went to air on 3 September 1979, we celebrate this landmark children's TV program.
Simon Townsend's Wonder World! (1979–87) was Australia's...
Collection
See the funniest, most splendiferous and bizarre moments on a show that had five million Aussies a week turning on their TV sets in the 1970s and 80s.
Host Mike Walsh AM OBE entertains viewers with a...
Collection
Wake in Fright is a classic from the early days of the 1970s Australian film renaissance. The film was restored by the NFSA and re-released in 2009.
It had been thought lost for decades until the...
Collection
Dubbed 'the mother of rock', Lillian Roxon was the most influential rock journalist in the world from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
One of the first writers to take rock music seriously, her...