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Sunny, vibrant Brisbane is the capital of Queensland and Australia's third largest city.
Set on the Brisbane River (Maiwar) the city of Brisbane (Meanjin/Mianjin) is on Yuggera Country (also written...
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The greatest technological advances of the 20th century were arguably about the broadcasting of messages.
Technology has moved from cinema newsreels to radio (originally called 'the wireless') to...
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Enjoy a selection of clips featuring some of Australia's greatest tennis champions.
Our tennis players dominated the world rankings, particularly from the 1950s to the 70s, which commentators look...
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This collection about Australian picture palaces is dedicated to the enduring pleasures of cinemagoing.
At the time of writing, the COVID-19 pandemic has recently closed cinemas across Australia but...
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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...
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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 (...
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The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.
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Fifty surprising, heartwarming and weirdly wonderful items from the NFSA collection.
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Footage of a 1933 AFL face-off between Victorian and South Australian teams gives us rare glimpses of two goal-kicking legends.
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened 85 years ago and Cinesound Productions' newsreel secured the scoop of a lifetime.
