TAGGED: silent films
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Listen to a Q&A with composer Paul Mac about writing a new score for the NFSA Restores digital restoration of The Sentimental Bloke.

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Bill (Arthur Tauchert) and Doreen (Lottie Lyell) celebrate their marriage with a 'beano’ at her mother’s house.

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Stewart Corrick writes about his grandfather Leonard's famous family of entertainers and the 40-year mission to preserve and digitise the Corrick Collection.

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From 1879-1914, the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers toured Australia, South-East Asia and Europe.

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One of Australia’s greatest silent films celebrates its 100th anniversary with a new digital restoration by the NFSA.

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This clip features imagery of the film For the Term of his Natural Life (originally released in 1927, but restored by the NFSA in 1981).

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In  2019, the NFSA restored one of Australia's most famous films from the silent era, The Sentimental Broke (Raymond Longford, 1919).

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Excerpt from a silent comedy short directed by Stan Laurel and starring Australian comic Clyde Cook, James Finlayson, Tyler Brooke and an 18-year-old Fay Wray, of King Kong (1933

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Restoring 'The Cheaters', a 1929 silent film by the pioneering McDonagh sisters.

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This Kiwi shoe polish cinema advertisement is a short narrative about two boys who want to apply for the vacant positions at the Imperial Hotel, London.