NFSA Timeline

NFSA Timeline

Over 30 Years of the National Film and Sound Archive

    • Display Year: 2019

    Game Masters: The Exhibition

    Game Masters: The Exhibition opens and the NFSA begins collecting and preserving Australian video games.

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    • Display Year: 2019

    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

    Our online exhibition celebrates the majesty of Skippy.

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    • Display Year: 2019

    Australia in Colour

    We supply 70% of the footage used in the landmark four-part series Australia in Colour.

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    • Display Year: 2019

    Carriberrie VR Experience

    We present an immersive virtual reality journey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander song and dance.

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    • Display Year: 2018

    Starstruck exhibition on tour

    We produce a short documentary about Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits when the exhibition opens in Adelaide.

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    • Display Year: 2018

    Museum Dance Off 2018

    The NFSA wins the national title in the international Museum Dance Off competition 2018!

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    • Display Year: 2016

    The new NFSA website

    The redeveloped nfsa.gov.au offers a mobile, responsive experience to better discover and share our collection.

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    • Display Year: 2016

    Shine screening and concert

    The NFSA’s 20th anniversary screening of Shine reunited pianist David Helfgott with actor Geoffrey Rush.

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    • Display Year: 2015

    NFSA Restores premiere screenings

    NFSA Restores brings the classics back to the big screen.

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    • Display Year: 2015

    Picnic at Hanging Rock: 40 Years of Mystery

    The NFSA celebrates Picnic at Hanging Rock with an online exhibition and a 40th anniversary screening.

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    • Display Year: 2014

    Muriel’s Wedding: Renewing our vows

    The NFSA celebrates the 20th anniversary of Muriel’s Wedding with an online exhibition and a special screening.

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    • Display Year: 2014

    Black Chat: Stiff Gins

    In March, Stiff Gins perform in the NFSA theatrette for the Black Chat program. In 2013, they visit the NFSA to record a unique wax cylinder.

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    • Display Year: 2014

    Priscilla: 20 Years Young

    The NFSA throws a 20th birthday party for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert complete with special guests, outdoor screening and online exhibition.

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    • Display Year: 2013

    Film Australia Collection turns 100

    The NFSA marks 100 years of the Film Australia Collection and Australian Government filmmaking.

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    • Display Year: 2013

    Centenary of Canberra

    The NFSA’s open-air screening and live music event for the Centenary of Canberra attracts 4000 people to the Senate Rose Gardens at Old Parliament House.

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    • Display Year: 2011

    The Corrick Collection

    A work inspired by the NFSA-restored Corrick collection of early silent films debuts at the Sydney Festival to sell-out crowds.

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    • Display Year: 2008

    Repatriation

    The NFSA Indigenous Collections Branch visits Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory to repatriate audiovisual materials to the Buku-Larnnggay Mulka Multimedia Archive and Production Centre.

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    • Display Year: 2006

    Restoring the world’s first feature film

    The NFSA digitally restores The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), considered to be the world’s first feature-length film, to mark the centenary of its premiere.

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    • Display Year: 2001

    Big Screen

    Big Screen commences touring Australian films to regional centres in 2001.

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    • Display Year: 1998

    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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    • Display Year: 1993

    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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    • Display Year: 1989

    In the news: Operation Newsreel

    The NFSA launches Operation Newsreel.

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    • Display Year: 1984

    Opening night

    On 3 October 1984, Prime Minister the Hon Bob Hawke officially opens the NFSA’s new headquarters in Canberra.

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    • Display Year: 1984

    The NFSA is formally established

    Former federal government minister Barry Cohen recalls the separation of the NFSA from the National Library of Australia.

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