Film1964The Flip SideAn investigation of the business side of the music industry which includes a live performance of the Rolling Stones in concert and interviews with pop stars.Open details →
Film1964The SunThe end of the 'Daily Herald' and the beginning of a new daily paper, 'The Sun'. Also a portrait of its first editor, Hugh Cudlipp.Open details →
Film1964The Face on the CoverThe life of the world’s top model Jean Shrimpton and her svengali photographer David Bailey.Open details →
Like ParadiseFilm1957Like ParadiseA BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at life in Hong Kong contrasting areas of great wealth and prosperity with the expanding slums.Open details →
Music CampFilm1949Music CampThis year the Musica Viva Festival will feature content from the NFSA's Film Australia Collection to be screened in the Bang & Olufsen Salon throughout the festival in Sydney. This film Music Camp is one of those films. Directed by R. Maslyn Williams for the National Film Board in 1949. Each year the Melbourne Junior Symphony Concert Orchestra holds a summer camp organised by the National Fitness Council at Point Lonsdale Victoria, for three weeks it provides an opportunity for music students to continue their education over the holiday season.Open details →
Forward CommunicationsFilm1949Forward CommunicationsMade by the National Film Board 1949. Directed by Bern Gandy. The expanding activities of the Post Office to cater for communications in an ever growing nation. This film also deals with the rapid expansion to cater for post-war demands, especially in supplying more telephones and exchanges. Australia’s vast distances make an efficient system of communication most necessary and this film stresses all the main factors involved in maintaining its efficiency.Open details →
These Stars Are MineFilm1943These Stars Are MineGeorge Reynolds, recently discharged from the army, tells his father of his plans to marry and relax. Reynolds Snr tells his son that if Australia is to avoid another postwar Depression, its citizens need to work hard towards a better future.Open details →
