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Cricket
Cricket is as much a part of the Australian summer as backyard barbecues and sunburn. The earliest test cricket footage held by the NFSA dates back to 1910. The 'Golden Age of Cricket' is often...
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NFSA's Top Content for 2020
What was the most popular content on our website in 2020?
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Sir Donald Bradman Playing Cricket – in Colour
A recently donated film reveals the only known colour footage of Sir Donald Bradman playing cricket.
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Hollywood Star Charles Farrell in The Flying Doctor
When Charles Farrell came to Australia in 1936 to appear in The Flying Doctor, he brought with him a touch of Hollywood glamour and the aura of a big-name star.
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Australia in Colour – landmark SBS series with NFSA content
The NFSA provided nearly three-quarters of the footage used in the groundbreaking four-part series Australia in Colour.
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Sir Donald Bradman: Silver Screen Sportstar
Sir Donald Bradman is recognised internationally as one of the greatest cricketers of all time, but did you know he also briefly acted in a movie?
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Bradman in Canada
Simon Smith sheds light on The Australians in Toronto, a rare film of Sir Donald Bradman in action in Canada 80 years ago.
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Paulette McDonagh on filming Don Bradman
In this excerpt from a 1974 oral history interview with silent-era filmmaker Paulette McDonagh, she recalls her experience filming Don Bradman at the height of his cricketing career for the short...
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Don Bradman in Colour
At 2:48pm on Saturday 26 February 1949, with the score at 1-111 in the AF Kippax and WA Oldfield testimonial match, Sir Donald Bradman strode onto the Sydney Cricket Ground for his penultimate first-...
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Don Bradman at the SCG by Movietone
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