Collection
Australia Today billed itself as a 'digest of current events’.
It was set up in the late 1930s by Rupert Kathner as an alternative news source to established newsreels like Cinesound and Movietone (...
Collection
The Cinesound Movietone Australian Newsreel Collection held at the NFSA comprises 4,000 newsreels from 1929 to 1975.
It includes two competing cinema newsreels, Cinesound Review (1931–1970, 2,031...
Collection
There are many film and sound titles relating to Brisbane in the NFSA collection. See historic footage, sound, newsreels and home movies dating from 1889 to 1994.
Article
The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.
Article
Footage of a 1933 AFL face-off between Victorian and South Australian teams gives us rare glimpses of two goal-kicking legends.
Article
The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened 85 years ago and Cinesound Productions' newsreel secured the scoop of a lifetime.
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Film curator Sally Jackson writes about Australia's first cinema animations for the 2014 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October.
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The third and final instalment in our Beatles Australian tour anniversary celebration shows Beatlemania at its highest - and loudest - point.
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Just another day at the races: Charlie Chaplin lookalikes and a Bathing Beauty competition from 1921.
Video
This Cinesound Review newsreel details the competition for the architectural design of the Sydney Opera House in 1957.
The winning design by Danish architect Jørn Utzon created both controversy and...
