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This collection includes images of Anzac troops in Egypt and Gallipoli, some beautiful hand-tinted glass slides and a couple of popular songs from the First World War era.
Australia’s baptism of fire...
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The Salvation Army's pioneering multimedia work Soldiers of the Cross premiered at the Melbourne Town Hall on 13 September 1900.
Referred to by the organisation as a 'lecture’, and once thought to be...
Collection
These 19th century photographic glass slides purport to show images of both the living and the dead.
The ghostly apparition pictures come from the collection of AJ Abbott, a practising spiritualist...
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These 19th century photographic glass slides purport to show images of both the living and the dead.
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Martyn Jolly, Head of Photography and Media Arts at the ANU School of Art, writes about the connection between 'Soldiers of the Cross' and one of the world's first blockbuster films, Italy's 'Quo...
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Curator Itzell Tazzyman introduces 21st century audiences to the wonders of 19th century magic lanterns.
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The NFSA sponsors a new user guide on flexible dealing and cultural institutions.
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NFSA conservator Shingo Ishikawa and digitisation specialist Darren Weinert talk about cinema slides and their history, manufacture and preservation.
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NFSA conservator Shingo Ishikawa and digitisation specialist Darren Weinert talk about digital preservation and packaging of cinema slides.
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NFSA conservator Shingo Ishikawa and digitisation specialist Darren Weinert talk about the NFSA's glass slide preservation project.
