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Chips Rafferty: 'The Best Thing He's Done'

An extract from an ABC TV obituary of actor Chips Rafferty, featuring an interview with director Ken G Hall talking about Rafferty's contribution to Australian film.

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Newsreels: Tim Bowden

In this clip, Tim Bowden explains that newsreels were how people received their visual 'current affairs fix' before television.

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Deep Dive: The Legend of Chips Rafferty

Listen to Dr Andrew Pike's special presentation at the NFSA about Australian film icon, Chips Rafferty.

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Australia's first Oscar

The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.

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Belinda Hunt on preserving Ken G Hall's Oscar at the NFSA

Belinda Hunt, Team Leader of Conservation and Collection at the NFSA, talks about the condition of Australia's first Oscar in 2020 and how it is stored at the NFSA.

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Kokoda Front Line! Oscar for Best Documentary

This is Australia’s first ever Oscar, awarded to Cinesound Review’s chief director Ken G Hall (1901–1994) for Kokoda Front Line! (1942). The inscription on the Oscar reads: ‘To 

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Ken G Hall and his Oscars

Filmmaker Ken G Hall appears on The Mike Walsh Show with the two different Oscars he received for the newsreel Kokoda Front Line (1942).

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Starstruck: a portrait of actress Pearl Schweig

Jennifer Coombes explores the life of Pearl Schweig, an actress from the 1930s Cinesound casting books who features in the exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.

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Tall Timbers_cast shot

Cast photo in Palm Beach for the film, Tall Timbers (1937).

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Let George Do It_ production photo

Production photo for the film, Let George Do It (1938). Pearl Schweig second from left.