Cinema

Australian film, which produced what is generally held to be the first feature length narrative film anywhere, The Story of the Kelly Gang in 1906. The studios and the location shoots, the new wave of the 1970s, the actors and directors, and the long stretches when the industry barely existed.

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1. 1900 - Picture theatre at Collaroy Beach. A picture theatre at Collaroy Beach on Sydney's northern beaches. Beachside cinemas were part of the interwar Australian summer.
2. 1906 - Frame from the 1906 Kelly Gang film. A surviving frame from the 1906 Ned Kelly production. The National Film and Sound Archive and UNESCO, which added it to the Memory of the World Register in 2007, describe it as the world's first narrative feature, a claim that rests on counting a feature as a story film over about an hour and setting aside the longer 1897 Corbett Fitzsimmons prize fight recording.
3. 1906 - The capture scene, 1906. The capture of Ned Kelly as staged in the 1906 film. Of an original reel length of roughly 1,200 metres, about seventeen minutes survives in fragments recovered from several countries.
4. 1906 - Dan Kelly in the 1906 film. Dan Kelly in the 1906 production, made by the Tait brothers in Melbourne. It premiered at the Athenaeum Hall in Melbourne on 26 December 1906.
5. 1906 - World's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) - Ned is captured. 2007 as the world's first full-length narrative feature film. About 17 minutes survive. from footage of 1906 held by NFSA Online.
6. 1906 - Kate Kelly in the 1906 film. Kate Kelly as shown in the 1906 film. The production was shot around Melbourne only twenty six years after Kelly was hanged, within living memory of the events.
7. 1906 - The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) | World’s First Feature Film | Silent Crime Drama Full Movie. The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), published by Classic Movies Archive. UNESCO inscribed The Story of the Kelly Gang on the Memory of the World Register in 2007 as the world's first full-length narrative feature film. About 17 minutes survive. from footage of 1906 held by Classic Movies Archive.
8. 1918 - Filming The Sentimental Bloke. Arthur Tauchert, Gilbert Emery and Lottie Lyell during production of The Sentimental Bloke in 1918. Lyell wrote, edited and performed, and is regarded as one of the first women in the world to work across those roles in film.
9. 1918 - Allies Theatre, Bowen. The Allies Theatre inside the School of Arts building at Bowen in 1918. Many country screenings happened in halls built for something else.
10. 1920 - Soldiers entering the Cambria cinema. 1920, in the years just after the First World War.
11. 1920 - Palace Theatre, Hobart. The Palace Theatre on Elizabeth Street in Hobart around 1920. Tasmania's exhibition circuit was small but continuous from the silent era.
12. 1921 - Star Picture Theatre in flood, Winton. The Star Picture Theatre at Winton under floodwater in 1921. Winton is also where Banjo Paterson's Waltzing Matilda was first performed.
13. 1922 - Bicycles outside a Cairns picture theatre. Bicycles piled outside a picture theatre in Cairns. In tropical Queensland many theatres were open air, with canvas roofs and deck chairs.
14. 1923 - Frank Hurley filming on location. 1920s. His documentary work moved between Antarctic expedition, the Western Front and the Pacific.
15. 1924 - Star Picture Theatre, Winton. The Star Picture Theatre at Winton in 1924. The open air Royal Theatre in the same town still runs with canvas seats.
16. 1927 - Palace Theatre, Cairns. Movie posters on the Palace Theatre at Cairns in 1927, decorated for a fancy dress ball. Regional theatres doubled as dance halls and meeting rooms.
17. 1928 - Cadets marching to a Sydney cinema. Naval League cadets marching to the Hoyts De Luxe on George Street in Sydney for an Anzac commemoration screening. Cinema going was organised as a civic event as much as a private one.
18. 1928 - The Lyceum Theatre at night. The Lyceum Theatre in Sydney lit at night in late 1928. Electric display fronts were how city cinemas competed before television.
19. 1929 - Opening night of the State Theatre. The opening night of the State Theatre in Sydney in 1929, with the Australian premiere of The Patriot. The State was built as a picture palace in an elaborate mixed revival style and now hosts the Sydney Film Festival.
20. 1929 - Hoyts ushers on the footpath. Hoyts ushers lined up on the footpath, photographed by Sam Hood. Hoyts and Union Theatres between them controlled Australian exhibition and therefore what local films could be screened.
21. 1929 - Beach Picture Theatre, Sandgate. The Beach Picture Theatre at Sandgate near Brisbane in 1929. Seaside suburbs supported their own picture houses.
22. 1929 - Wonderview Theatre, Victor Harbor. The Wonderview Theatre at Victor Harbor in South Australia in 1929. Holiday towns built cinemas to hold the summer trade.
23. 1930 - Plaza Theatre, Tully. The Plaza Theatre at Tully in far north Queensland in 1930. Sugar towns of a few thousand people supported purpose built cinemas.
24. 1930 - Picture theatre managers conference. A picture theatre managers conference and dinner in 1930. Exhibition was an organised industry with its own associations and trade press.
25. 1930 - Wondergraph at Semaphore. The Wondergraph on the Semaphore Esplanade in South Australia in 1930. Wondergraph was an early Australian exhibition brand.
26. 1931 - Sound booth and Movietone poster. A studio sound man behind glass with a Fox Movietone News poster in 1931. Sound arrived in Australian cinemas around 1929 and closed most of the local silent production that remained.
27. 1933 - Filming a race for Cinesound. A daytime race filmed for Cinesound at the Wentworth Autodrome in November 1933. Newsreel work paid for the studio between features.
28. 1933 - Rajo Ford Special filmed for Cinesound. A Rajo Ford Special at speed, filmed for Cinesound at the Wentworth Autodrome in 1933. Motor racing was a staple of the Australian newsreel.
29. 1934 - Hollywood Picture Theatre, Greenslopes. The Hollywood Picture Theatre at Greenslopes in Brisbane around 1934. The name states plainly where most of the programme came from.
30. 1935 - Shooting Grandad Rudd. Shooting a scene for Grandad Rudd in Sydney around 1935, photographed by Sam Hood. The Rudd films drew on Steele Rudd's selector stories, a durable Australian comic property.
31. 1936 - Helen Twelvetrees at Cinesound. The American actor Helen Twelvetrees at Cinesound Studios in Sydney in 1936, photographed by Sam Hood. Australian producers imported overseas leads to make films saleable abroad.
32. 1936 - Cecil Kellaway arrives for Cinesound. Cecil Kellaway arriving on the Melbourne Express for Cinesound in 1936. Kellaway later worked extensively in Hollywood.
33. 1936 - Filming a departure for Cinesound. The actor John Longden departing on the Strathnaver, filmed by Cinesound. Shipboard arrivals and departures were standard newsreel material.
34. 1936 - Regent Theatre usher. An usher at the Regent Theatre in 1936. Uniformed staff were standard in the large city houses.
35. 1937 - Filming A Nation is Built. Production of A Nation is Built, directed by Frank Hurley for Cinesound to mark the 1938 sesquicentenary. Hurley had been the photographer on Antarctic expeditions before turning to film.
36. 1937 - Kings Picture Theatre auditorium. The auditorium of the new Kings Picture Theatre at Mosman in Sydney in 1937. Suburban cinemas of this scale were built across Australian cities in the interwar decades.
37. 1938 - Cinesound miniature set, 1938. Building a miniature film set at Cinesound in Sydney on 7 November 1938. Cinesound Productions made seventeen features between 1931 and 1940 and was the closest thing Australia had to a studio system.
38. 1938 - Hoyts children's club, Clovelly. Boys of the Hoyts Clovelly Theatre children's club with their bicycles in 1938. Saturday morning clubs were how suburban cinemas built a weekly audience.
39. 1939 - Roxy Picture Theatre, Everard Park. The Roxy Picture Theatre at Everard Park in South Australia in 1939. Streamlined Moderne fronts marked the late 1930s wave of Australian cinema building.
40. 1939 - Star theatre, Wakefield Street. The Star theatre on Wakefield Street in Adelaide in 1939. Adelaide's city cinemas clustered on a few blocks.
41. 1940 - Charles and Elsa Chauvel on set. Charles and Elsa Chauvel with a cinematographer and actors in Australian uniform. The Chauvels worked as a directing and writing partnership across three decades of Australian production.
42. 1940 - Forty Thousand Horsemen. Chips Rafferty, Grant Taylor and Pat Twohill in Forty Thousand Horsemen, Charles Chauvel's 1940 film about the Australian Light Horse. It was shot in sand dunes at Cronulla standing in for Palestine.
43. 1940 - Rafferty and Taylor between takes. Chips Rafferty and Grant Taylor between takes on Forty Thousand Horsemen. Rafferty became the standard screen image of the lean Australian bushman for two decades.
44. 1940 - Camel on the Chauvel set. A camel on the set of Forty Thousand Horsemen. Chauvel made the film during the Second World War, when the earlier war was being invoked directly.
45. 1942 - Strathfield cinema dress circle foyer. The dress circle foyer of the Strathfield cinema in 1942. The foyer was part of the attraction, designed to be a step up from the street.
46. 1942 - Mareeba picture theatre. The Mareeba picture theatre in 1942, when the Atherton Tableland held large military camps. Cinemas served troops as well as townspeople.
47. 1943 - Picture theatre prices hearing. A Prices Commission hearing on picture theatre admission in 1943. Wartime price control extended to cinema tickets.
48. 1944 - Mobile cinema units. Two Ford mobile cinema units donated through the Australian Comforts Fund in 1944. Mobile projection took film to troops and to towns without a theatre.
49. 1946 - Twenty four sheet film poster. A twenty four sheet poster for Love Story photographed in 1946. Billboard posting was the main film advertising medium before television.
50. 1946 - Victory cinema box office. The box office of the Victory cinema during a season in 1946. Ticket sales were counted at the window and reported to distributors weekly.
51. 1949 - Broadway Picture Theatre, Biloela. The Broadway Picture Theatre on Callide Street at Biloela in 1949. Country exhibition peaked in the years just before television arrived in 1956.
52. 1950 - Ken Hall of Cinesound. Ken Hall, the producer and director who ran Cinesound. He made every one of the studio's features and later produced the Cinesound Review newsreel.
53. 1950 - Regent Theatre, Charters Towers. The Regent Theatre at Charters Towers around 1950. The town's open air Regent still operates as a picture theatre.
54. 1950 - Oriana Cinema, Fremantle. The Oriana Cinema at Fremantle in 1950. Western Australian exhibition included many open air picture gardens suited to the dry summer.
55. 1952 - Empire Theatre, Grote Street. The Empire Theatre on Grote Street in Adelaide in 1952. City centre theatres of this size were being converted or demolished within two decades.
56. 1955 - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks at the Jedda premiere. Rosalie Kunoth-Monks at the Darwin premiere of Jedda. Charles Chauvel's 1955 film was the first Australian feature to cast Aboriginal actors in its lead roles and the first shot in colour.
57. 1955 - Hoyts Regent Theatre. A Hoyts Regent Theatre around 1955, the year before television began in Australia. Cinema attendance fell sharply through the following decade.
58. 1972 - Gulpilil at dance practice, 1972. David Gulpilil at dance practice at Lajamanu in 1972. He was a Yolngu ceremonial dancer before Nicolas Roeg cast him in Walkabout in 1971, and the dancing is why he was cast.
59. 1982 - Jack Thompson on location in Kakadu. Jack Thompson and Stephen Measday on location in Kakadu in 1982. Thompson had led Sunday Too Far Away and Breaker Morant in the New Wave years.
60. 1984 - Fred Schepisi in 1984. Fred Schepisi promoting a film in 1984. He had directed The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith in Australia in 1978 before working in the United States.
61. 1989 - Hoyts on Collins Street, Hobart. A Hoyts cinema on Collins Street in Hobart in 1989. The chain reached every Australian capital.
62. 2004 - Hoyts multiplex at a shopping centre. A Hoyts multiplex at a suburban shopping centre. Exhibition moved from standalone picture palaces to shopping centre complexes over the 1980s and 1990s.
63. 2007 - Mad Max replica at Silverton. A replica pursuit vehicle outside the Silverton Hotel in far western New South Wales. Mad Max 2 was shot around Broken Hill and Silverton, and the town has traded on it since.
64. 2009-02-09 - art.afterhours , Daniel Browning with Rachel Perkins and Darren Dale. The Art Gallery of New South Wales hosts Rachel Perkins and Darren Dale in conversation. Blackfella Films, which they run, produced First Australians and Redfern Now.
65. 2009 - Twin cinema at Wagga Wagga. A twin screen cinema at Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. Regional towns split single auditoria into two or three screens through the 1970s and 1980s.
66. 2009-10-11 - Trailer | Samson & Delilah. The trailer for Samson and Delilah, released in 2009. The film was shot near Alice Springs largely in Warlpiri with two first time teenage leads.
67. 2009-10-23 - Mad Max director George Miller on cars and the Australian film industry | ABC News. George Miller talks about cars and the Australian film industry. The first Mad Max was made in 1979 on a small budget with a largely volunteer crew on roads near Melbourne.
68. 2010-08-26 - Aunty Joy on Bran Nue Dae. An elder discusses Bran Nue Dae at ACMI. The 1990 stage musical by Jimmy Chi was adapted for the screen by Rachel Perkins in 2009.
69. 2010-09-11 - The Man From Hong Kong from Not Quite Hollywood documentary Quentin Tarantino. The Man From Hong Kong as covered in Not Quite Hollywood. The 1975 co production is an example of the commercial Australian genre film the New Wave narrative usually omits.
70. 2010-12-09 - Rush returns. ABC News covers Geoffrey Rush returning to the stage. He has worked across Australian theatre and film for decades.
71. 2010-12-14 - Nadia Tass on The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. Nadia Tass discusses The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Fred Schepisi's 1978 film of the Thomas Keneally novel about a violent response to racism in colonial New South Wales.
72. 2011-01-28 - George Miller on Working with Australian Talent. George Miller discusses working with Australian talent, in a Screen Australia interview. The Mad Max films were shot in Australia and, later, in Namibia.
73. 2011-02-14 - Rush wins BAFTA award. ABC News reports Geoffrey Rush winning a BAFTA award, one of several international honours taken by Australian screen performers in the 2000s and 2010s.
74. 2011-02-19 - A short interview with Bruce Beresford. 1980 took an Australian court martial story to international audiences.
75. 2011-07-06 - The Capri Theatre: A Reel Reflection Documentary Short. A short documentary on the Capri Theatre in Adelaide, a suburban cinema kept running by a volunteer society and known for its theatre organ.
76. 2012-01-12 - The Razor Gang, 1928 (filmed in Lismore, NSW) clip 2. A clip from The Razor Gang, filmed at Lismore in New South Wales in 1928. Regional production was common before the industry consolidated in Sydney and Melbourne.
77. 2012-03-27 - HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN CINEMA Trailer. A trailer for a documentary history of Australian cinema, released by Umbrella Entertainment.
78. 2012-04-18 - Warwick Thornton on Wild at Heart. Warwick Thornton discusses a film that influenced him, recorded at ACMI in Melbourne. The museum's collection covers film, television and digital culture.
79. 2012-05-20 - Documentaries with Jenny Neighbour - Sydney Film Festival 2012. A Sydney Film Festival discussion of documentary programming. The festival's main venue is the State Theatre on Market Street.
80. 2012 - Gillian Armstrong. 1979 was the first Australian feature directed by a woman in some fifty years.
81. 2012 - Wayne Blair at The Sapphires premiere. Wayne Blair at the premiere of The Sapphires at the State Theatre in Sydney in 2012. Blair, a Butchulla man, directed the film about an Aboriginal girl group who performed for troops in Vietnam.
82. 2012 - The Sapphires cast and director. Jessica Mauboy, Miranda Tapsell, Wayne Blair and Deborah Mailman at the 2012 premiere of The Sapphires. The film was among the highest grossing Australian releases of its year.
83. 2012-07-11 - Film poster collection heads to auction. ABC News covers an Australian film poster collection going to auction. Posters and lobby cards survive from many films whose prints do not.
84. 2013 - Trundle cinema. The cinema at Trundle in central western New South Wales. Volunteer run country cinemas still operate in towns of a few hundred people.
85. 2013-07-15 - I Like to Watch - History of Australian Cinema. A history of Australian cinema covering the silent era, the long production drought and the 1970s revival funded by new federal bodies.
86. 2013-10-23 - Living Black Conversations 2013 Ep2 - Rachel Perkins. NITV's Living Black interviews the filmmaker Rachel Perkins in 2013. She founded Blackfella Films and is the daughter of the Arrernte activist Charles Perkins.
87. 2014-02-27 - Lottie Lyell in The Woman Suffers (Australia, 1918). Lottie Lyell in The Woman Suffers, made in Australia in 1918. Lyell wrote, edited and acted, and is regarded as one of the first women to work across those roles in Australian film.
88. 2014-02-27 - Rachel Perkins discusses Indigenous filmmaking in Australia. Rachel Perkins discusses Aboriginal filmmaking in Australia, recorded for the National Film and Sound Archive. She directed Radiance, One Night the Moon and Bran Nue Dae.
89. 2014-07-15 - Fred Schepisi Interview: On Australian film and the Cultural Cringe (3/5). Fred Schepisi on Australian film and the cultural cringe, the term for a national habit of rating local work below imported work. The New Wave was in part an argument against it.
90. 2014-07-15 - Fred Schepisi Interview: 'Jimmie Blacksmith' and Indigenous Cinema (4/5). Fred Schepisi on The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and the casting of Aboriginal actors. The film was made before Aboriginal directors were making features of their own.
91. 2014-10-01 - World's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) - Kate is assaulted. A surviving fragment of the 1906 Ned Kelly film, presented by the National Film and Sound Archive under the title world's first feature film. The claim rests on defining a feature as a narrative work over about an hour, which excludes the longer 1897 Corbett Fitzsimmons prize fight recording.
92. 2014-10-01 - Operation Newsreel: Saving Australia's early filmed news.. The National Film and Sound Archive explains its work saving Australia's early filmed news. Nitrate stock decays and burns, and most Australian silent film has been lost.
93. 2015-01-15 - Muriel's Wedding (1994) - trailer. The trailer for Muriel's Wedding, released in 1994. The film was part of a run of Australian comedies that travelled internationally in the 1990s.
94. 2015 - George Miller at the Fury Road premiere. George Miller at the premiere of Mad Max Fury Road in 2015. He made the first Mad Max in 1979 for a small budget on roads outside Melbourne, and the 2015 film won six Academy Awards.
95. 2016-01-28 - Mad Max: Fury Road Behind the Scenes (Tools of the Wasteland). A behind the scenes look at the vehicles and stunts of Mad Max Fury Road. The 2015 film won six Academy Awards, mostly in craft categories.
96. 2016-02-01 - 3 Dances Gulpilil. Three dances performed by David Gulpilil, filmed for the archive. His dancing was the reason he was cast, and it remained part of his screen presence.
97. 2016-08-21 - Provincial Cities of Australia: Ballarat (1931). Provincial Cities of Australia looks at Ballarat in 1931. Documentary and travelogue kept Australian production alive when local feature making collapsed.
98. 2016-08-22 - Quentin Tarantino’s Top Australian Films. Quentin Tarantino names his favourite Australian films for Screen Australia. His enthusiasm helped revive interest in the genre cinema of the period.
99. 2016-08-29 - Mel Gibson talks about 'Gallipoli' on The Mike Walsh Show, 1981. Mel Gibson discusses Gallipoli on The Mike Walsh Show in 1981. Peter Weir's film shaped how a generation of Australians pictured the 1915 landing.
100. 2016-11-21 - I was destined to work in a Drive-in cinema. A recollection of working in a drive-in cinema, recorded by ACMI in Melbourne. The venues combined film exhibition with the suburban car culture of the period.
101. 2017-02-08 - David Kilderry on the Lunar Drive In Theatre. A history of the Lunar Drive In Theatre, recorded at ACMI. Drive-ins spread across Australian suburbs from the 1950s alongside car ownership.
102. 2017-03-02 - Rachel Perkins: Jasper Jones and Indigenous Filmmaking. Rachel Perkins on Jasper Jones and Aboriginal filmmaking, for SBS's The Feed. She also made the documentary series First Australians.
103. 2017-05-08 - Shine - Interview with Geoffrey Rush (1996). Geoffrey Rush interviewed in 1996 about Shine. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role of the pianist David Helfgott.
104. 2017-06-05 - Warwick Thornton talks We Don't Need a Map. Warwick Thornton discusses We Don't Need a Map, his documentary about the Southern Cross and how the constellation has been claimed by different groups in Australia.
105. 2017 - A History of Cinema in Perth. A history of cinema exhibition in Perth, covering the picture gardens and open air screens suited to a dry climate.
106. 2017 - Flinders picture theatre. The Flinders picture theatre. Purpose built country cinemas of this kind date mostly from between the wars.
107. 2017-07-06 - Celebrating Indigenous Screen Stories. Screen Australia's showcase of First Nations screen stories. The Indigenous Department's short film initiatives were the entry point for most of the directors now making features.
108. 2017-08-20 - Ali's Wedding - Behind the Scenes with Nigel Westlake and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Nigel Westlake and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra record the score for Ali's Wedding. Australian film scoring links the concert hall to the screen industry.
109. 2017-09-26 - Wake In Fright sneak peek. A sequence from Wake in Fright, released in 1971 and directed by the Canadian Ted Kotcheff. The film was lost for years and a print was recovered in Pittsburgh in 2004.
110. 2018-01-22 - Sweet Country - Behind The Scenes. Screen Australia's behind the scenes footage from Sweet Country. Thornton, a Kaytetye man, shot the film himself as well as directing it.
111. 2018-02-03 - Interview: Warwick Thornton (Sweet Country). An interview with Warwick Thornton about Sweet Country. He had earlier won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2009 for Samson and Delilah.
112. 2018-02-26 - Black Divaz: Meet the Filmmaker. Screen Australia introduces the filmmaker behind Black Divaz, a documentary following contestants in a First Nations drag pageant.
113. 2018-05-17 - Short Blacks Short Film Initiative. Screen Australia's Short Blacks initiative, one of the short film schemes that trained Aboriginal directors before they moved to features.
114. 2018-06-11 - The Song Keepers | Trailer | Documentary. The trailer for The Song Keepers, a documentary about a central Australian choir singing German Lutheran hymns translated into Aboriginal languages. The hymns came through the Hermannsburg mission.
115. 2018 - Koorda drive-in. The digital drive-in at Koorda in the Western Australian wheatbelt. Small towns converted to digital projection to keep screening after film prints were withdrawn.
116. 2018-07-15 - WATCH: Extended footage HerStory, Part 2 - Indigenous Women in Film, TV and Theatre. ABC Indigenous presents extended footage on First Nations women in film, television and theatre. The panel covers the paths into an industry that had few of them.
117. 2018-09-03 - 25 Years of Indigenous Screen Stories. Screen Australia marks twenty five years of its Indigenous Department, established in 1993. The unit funded the training and first films of a generation of Aboriginal directors.
118. 2018-11-26 - Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy | Trailer | NITV. The trailer for Westwind, a documentary about a Yolngu yidaki maker and player from north east Arnhem Land. The film was distributed with the participation of his family.
119. 2019-01-13 - Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country | Trailer | 26 January on NITV. NITV presents the trailer for Sweet Country, directed by Warwick Thornton and set in the Northern Territory in the 1920s. The film took the Special Jury Prize at Venice in 2017.
120. 2019 - A surviving Regent cinema
121. 2019-08-20 - Australian Female Filmmakers. Screen Australia on Australian female filmmakers. The agency introduced gender targets for its funding after data showed how few women were directing features.
122. 2019-12-03 - Filmmaker Rachel Perkins discusses the path to Indigenous recognition in the constitution | 7.30. Rachel Perkins discusses constitutional recognition on ABC News in 2019. She has worked as both a filmmaker and a campaigner on that question.
123. 2020-03-25 - Mystery Road | Official Trailer. The trailer for the Mystery Road television series, developed from Ivan Sen's 2013 feature. Sen wrote, directed, shot and scored his own films.
124. 2020-05-31 - Warwick Thornton on escaping 15 years of after parties. SBS's The Feed interviews Warwick Thornton about his life and work. He trained as a cinematographer before directing.
125. 2020 - Dylan River. The director, writer and cinematographer Dylan River. He is a Kaytetye filmmaker from Alice Springs and the son of Warwick Thornton.
126. 2020-07-11 - Film fans cruise into drive-in movie resurgence | ABC News. ABC News covers a resurgence of drive-in cinemas in 2020, when indoor venues were closed. Australia once had hundreds of drive-ins and now has a handful.
127. 2020-08-26 - Judy Davis almost wasn't in My Brilliant Career | Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery. Judy Davis on nearly missing the lead in My Brilliant Career, Gillian Armstrong's 1979 adaptation of the Miles Franklin novel. Armstrong was the first woman to direct an Australian feature in decades.
128. 2021-01-28 - Teenagers living in a remote community | Samson & Delilah (2009). A scene from Samson and Delilah showing teenagers in a remote community. The film's dialogue is sparse and much of it is not in English.
129. 2021-06-10 - David Gulpilil Mural. A mural of David Gulpilil. Public artworks of the actor appeared in several Australian cities after his death.
130. 2021 - Former Austral Picture Theatre. The former Austral Picture Theatre on Johnston Street at Collingwood in Melbourne. Hundreds of Australian suburban cinemas survive as shops, churches and warehouses.
131. 2021-07-04 - Rare footage of David Gulpilil dancing, 1979. Rare 1979 footage of David Gulpilil dancing, held by the National Film and Sound Archive. Gulpilil was a Yolngu ceremonial dancer before Nicolas Roeg cast him in Walkabout in 1971.
132. 2021-07-05 - A time capsule of the past provides a glimpse into David Gulpilil's early years | ABC News. ABC News reports on archival footage of David Gulpilil's early years. He was born at Marwuyu in Arnhem Land and grew up speaking Mandalpingu.
133. 2021-10-03 - Not Quite Hollywood. "Batshit Crazy" documentary on Australian Exploitation Cinema.. A segment from Not Quite Hollywood, the documentary on Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 1980s. It recovered a body of films that official film histories had passed over.
134. 2021-12-04 - Famed Australian Indigenous actor David Gulpilil dies at 68. AP Archive reports the death of David Gulpilil in 2021 at the age of 68. Tandanya issued a statement in December 2021 permitting continued use of his name and image.
135. 2022-01-07 - Tears and pride as David Gulpilil returns to Arnhem Land | ABC News. ABC News covers David Gulpilil's return to Arnhem Land after his death in 2021. His family and community gave public permission for his name and image to continue to be used.
136. 2022-01-20 - Trailblazers of Australian cinema celebrated in new exhibit at Film and Sound Archive | ABC News. ABC News covers an exhibition at the National Film and Sound Archive on the trailblazers of Australian cinema. The NFSA holds the national audiovisual collection in Canberra.
137. 2022-06-13 - Leah Purcell weaves her Indigenous Songlines into new film The Drover's Wife | Australian Story. Australian Story follows Leah Purcell making her film of The Drover's Wife, retelling the Henry Lawson story from a Aboriginal woman's position. Purcell wrote the play, the novel and the screenplay.
138. 2022-07-18 - Mystery Road: Origin - Behind the Scenes. Screen Australia's behind the scenes footage from Mystery Road Origin. The series follows an Aboriginal detective working in outback Queensland.
139. 2022-08-02 - Warwick Thornton and Margaret Pomeranz in conversation. Warwick Thornton in conversation with the critic Margaret Pomeranz at ACMI in 2022. Pomeranz and David Stratton reviewed films on Australian television for nearly three decades.
140. 2022-09-12 - Uncle Jack Charles, actor and revered Victorian Indigenous elder, dies aged 79 | ABC News. ABC News reports the death in 2022 of the Boonwurrung actor and elder Uncle Jack Charles at the age of 79. He co founded Nindethana, an early Aboriginal theatre company, and worked in film and on stage.
141. 2022-09-22 - Barrumbi Kids | Trailer | NITV. The trailer for Barrumbi Kids, an NITV series set in a remote Northern Territory community and made with local participation.
142. 2022-11-28 - Saroo's first day with his Australian family | Lion | ABC TV + iview. A scene from Lion, the 2016 film about Saroo Brierley, adopted from India to Tasmania. It was nominated for six Academy Awards.
143. 2023-05-25 - Mad Max director George Miller pays tribute to Tina Turner | 7.30. George Miller pays tribute to Tina Turner on ABC's 7.30 in 2023. She appeared in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the third film in the series he began in 1979.
144. 2023 - Coburg Drive-In entrance. The entrance sign of the Coburg Drive-In in Melbourne. Australia had hundreds of drive-ins at the form's peak and now has a handful still operating.
145. 2023-06-25 - Jack Thompson introduces and discusses "Sunday, Too Far Away". Jack Thompson introduces Sunday, Too Far Away, the 1975 shearing shed film in which he starred. It was among the first features backed by the new federal film funding bodies.
146. 2023-07-31 - Fox Studios Australia Fox Studios Backlot Tour - Australian TV Advertisement / Commercial 1999. An advertisement for the Fox Studios backlot tour in Sydney. The studio opened on the Sydney Showground site in 1998 and the public tour closed in 2001.
147. 2024-05-02 - David Gulpilil's epic final journey and funeral in Arnhem Land captured for documentary | ABC News. ABC News on the documentary recording David Gulpilil's final journey and funeral in Arnhem Land. The film was made with the agreement of his family.
148. 2024-05-07 - Brief History of a Family | Trailer - SFF 24. A trailer screened at the Sydney Film Festival, which has run since 1954 and is one of the longest continuously running film festivals in the world according to the festival.
149. 2024-06-10 - My Pal. 1924.. My Pal, an Australian production from 1924, held by the National Film and Sound Archive. Australian feature output was substantial in the silent era before American distribution squeezed it.
150. 2024-11-02 - NFSA Archive - Hoyts Roadshow (1929). A 1929 Hoyts Roadshow item from the NFSA collection. Hoyts and Union Theatres controlled Australian exhibition, and their booking power shaped what local films could reach screens.
151. 2025-02-12 - The Cheaters | Preview | NFSA Player. A preview of The Cheaters, made by the McDonagh sisters, three Sydney women who wrote, directed and produced features in the late 1920s.
152. 2025-03-04 - How Heath Ledger loss brought his dad and portrait artist together | Australian Story. Australian Story on the loss of Heath Ledger and a portrait made afterwards. Ledger was born in Perth and died in 2008.
153. 2025-04-05 - A look back at Hobart's underground cinemas | ABC News. ABC News looks back at Hobart's underground cinemas. Small independent venues carried films that the national chains would not book.
154. 2025-05-09 - A history of the State Theatre of Sydney: fantasy, entertainment and glamour. A history of the State Theatre in Sydney, a 1929 picture palace built in an elaborate mixed revival style. It now hosts the Sydney Film Festival.
155. 2025-06-06 - The History of the Cremorne Orpheum. 1935 cinema that still operates. Australian picture palaces of the period were designed as spectacles in themselves.
156. 2025-07-30 - Picnic at Hanging Rock original cinema trailer (1975). The original cinema trailer for Picnic at Hanging Rock, released in 1975. Peter Weir's film of the Joan Lindsay novel is usually placed at the front of the Australian New Wave.
157. 2025-09-02 - David Stratton Intro - The Boys, 1998, Australia, Rowan Woods, Toni Colette. The critic David Stratton introduces The Boys, a 1998 Australian film directed by Rowan Woods. Stratton reviewed on SBS and ABC television for decades.
158. 2025-10-01 - Classic Aussie stunt cars of Mystery Road: Origin | Mystery Road: Origin | ABC iview. The cars used in Mystery Road Origin. The series builds an outback crime genre on Australian ground rather than importing an American one.
159. 2026-02-15 - NT film industry on national stage as Kangaroo, Top End Bub and Journey Home win awards | ABC NEWS. ABC News reports Northern Territory films winning national awards in 2026. Remote and regional production has grown well beyond the Sydney and Melbourne studios.
160. 2026-02-15 - The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) - The World's FIRST Feature Film Ever Made. Surviving footage of the 1906 production assembled from fragments. UNESCO added the film to its Memory of the World Register in 2007; of an original reel length of around 1,200 metres, roughly seventeen minutes survives.
161. 2026-04-30 - Journey Home, David Gulpilil | NITV. NITV presents Journey Home, David Gulpilil. He appeared in Walkabout, Storm Boy, The Tracker, Rabbit-Proof Fence and Ten Canoes across five decades.
162. 2026-06-02 - Journey Home, David Gulpilil | Promo | SBS Premiere July 10 | SBS & SBS On Demand. An SBS promotion for Journey Home, David Gulpilil. SBS and NITV were the broadcasters that carried most Aboriginal screen work to a national audience.