TAGGED: 1970s
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An Adelaide dentist and amateur filmmaker has donated almost 10 hours of footage which helps chronicle the Australian and international Paralympic movement in the 1970s and 80s.

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In 1979 two young Australians invented the first Fairlight sampling synthesizer and changed electronic music forever. We have one in working condition!

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Caddie (1976) was so popular it ran for 54 weeks on one screen alone. The second part of our celebration of the film looks at its success and feminist legacy.

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The first of this two-part series that looks back on the making of Caddie, a breakthrough feature of the Australian film revival of the 1970s.

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A former railway signaller, Film Curatorial Officer Jeff Wray explores the train films of Roger McKenzie.

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Robert Stigwood, one of the most successful and influential Australians involved in the entertainment industry, has died aged 81.

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Film curator Sally Jackson takes a fresh look at Australia's first animated feature, Eric Porter's Marco Polo Jnr Versus the Red Dragon.

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The NFSA has digitally preserved the surviving news footage of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government on 11 November 1975.

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We look at the Governor-General's dismissal of the Whitlam Government on 11 November 1975 from the perspective of two camera operators who were there that day.

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Camera operator Bob Wilesmith was working for Channel 7 in the Parliament House bureau in Canberra on 11 November 1975, the day Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough W