NFSA blog entries for September 2011

Sandy George asks, how can Australian films and their limited promotional budgets compete with Hollywood’s marketing machine?

How did a boilermaker-turned-soldier become an internationally performing tenor? NFSA sound curator Graham McDonald investigates the background of the man who first recorded Waltzing Matilda.

Can you identify the bug that was glued between glass slides over 100 years ago?

Zsuzsi Szucs, from the NFSA’s Access, Research and Development branch, reports on the latest additions to the Australian Mediatheque in Melbourne.