Acquisition highlights
New additions to the NFSA collection in 2005 include 35mm feature film prints of Moulin Rouge! (2001), Survivor (1981), The Silver Brumby (1993), Dingo (1991) and The Year My Voice Broke (1987).
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Crawford Productions donation
The NFSA receives a major television donation from Crawford Productions.
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50 Australian colour films restored
The NFSA Kodak/Atlab project restores 50 Australian colour feature films over five years.
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INXS
The NFSA acquires the first consignment of a major sound recording collection of INXS material.
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The Sentimental Bloke lives again
The NFSA restoration of The Sentimental Bloke is a hit with audiences 85 years after the original film’s release.
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Australian Film Commission merger
The federal government merges the NFSA with the Australian Film Commission from 1 July. An estimated 800 people attend two ‘Save ScreenSound’ rallies in Canberra, which attract wide media attention, and stakeholder groups lobby for NFSA statutory autonomy. The following year, the ScreenSound brand is dropped and the name returns to National Film and Sound Archive.
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Family memories saved from fire
The NFSA restores family photos from a major bushfire in the ACT that destroys or severely damages more than 500 homes and kills four people.
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Acquisition highlights
Acquisition highlights include papers covering the career of Australian producer Anthony Buckley and animation cels from Dot and the Kangaroo (1977).
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Preserving our heritage
The NFSA repairs and copies The Sentimental Bloke (1919), incorporating newly discovered material, and the nitrate print of Neptune’s Daughter (1914), starring Australian swimmer/actor Annette Kellerman.
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One million collection items and growing
The NFSA collection now numbers over one million items.
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Big Screen
Big Screen commences touring Australian films to regional centres in 2001.
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Sights + Sounds of a Nation
A major permanent exhibition, Sights + Sounds of a Nation, opens at the NFSA in February.
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1000 scripts donated
The Australian Writers’ Guild donates 1000 film, television and radio scripts to the NFSA.
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Australia’s oldest sound recordings donated
The Performing Arts Museum, Melbourne donates 60 wax cylinders from 1897, including Australia’s earliest surviving sound recordings.
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A bigger building
Major extensions to the NFSA building are opened in June by Prime Minister John Howard.
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ScreenSound Australia
The NFSA changes its name to ScreenSound Australia.
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International film restoration
The NFSA restores two major feature films from South-East Asia.
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Radio with Pictures
The Radio with Pictures interview project commences. It includes filmed oral histories with prominent media personalities such as Bruce Gyngell AO.
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The Australian Jazz Archive
The NFSA establishes the Australian Jazz Archive in partnership with the jazz musicians’ community to build a national collection of recordings and other jazz materials.
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Regional archives association formed
The NFSA is instrumental to the formal establishment of the South East Asia-Pacific Audio Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA) in Manila, Philippines in February 1996.
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The inaugural Ken G Hall Award
The NFSA establishes the Ken G Hall Award for services to film preservation in Australia.
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An extension for the NFSA
The NFSA is quickly outgrowing its current available space and an extension to the heritage building is announced.
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Cinesound at Sydney Opera House
More than 5000 people on the Sydney Opera House steps enjoy a summer evening screening of Cinesound newsreels and features from the NFSA collection as part of the Festival of Sydney.
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Lost film found in cake tin
A cake tin donated to the NFSA contains 24 minutes of the previously lost bushranger film Thunderbolt (1910).
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IASA at NFSA
NFSA hosts the 24th International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives conference – the first to be held in the southern hemisphere.
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Once Upon a Wireless
In May the NFSA begins Once Upon A Wireless, the single largest Oral History project with which the NFSA has been involved.
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Dealing with disaster
Graham Gilmour, the NFSA’s first permanent director, talks about the circumstances that led to colour film in the NFSA’s care being damaged and the action taken in response.
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In the news: Operation Newsreel
The NFSA launches Operation Newsreel.
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Kookaburra Card
The NFSA introduces the Kookaburra Card, a national membership and fundraising initiative based on sponsored cinema ticket discounts.
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Take 88
The NFSA launches Take 88, a nationwide travelling exhibition, to commemorate the bicentenary of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788.
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The Australian Image
The Australian Image series is televised nationally.
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The Last Film Search
The Last Film Search unearths over 600 kilometres of nitrate film in five years.
