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http://nfsa.gov.au/arc/arc-cinema- The latest word (1 Dec 2011) is "NFSA
programming-strategy/ Historian, Graham Shirley, is currently in
discussion with senior NFSA staff about
The Archive has done very important the precise form ALFSAR Stage 2 will
work between 2000 and 2011, in take. It is now just over a year since
conjunction with Atlab, Deluxe and Graham drafted a project plan for Stage
Kodak – 2, and this plan will now be reviewed to
assess its alignment with current NFSA
http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/film/film- film acquisition methodology. NFSA's
partnerships/ Board was aware of and appreciative of
the launch at the 2010 Sydney Film
Some of the resulting high quality prints Festival of ALFSAR Stage 1. That project
have appeared in a number of film was subsequently given prominence as a
festivals. But there seems to be no case study in the NFSA's 2009-10 annual
active plan for circulating those prints report."
widely around Australia. Nor for
regularly programming them at the Arc Stage 1 of that ALFSAR was probably
cinema. By contrast, the National Film the publication on NFSA website of
Theatre in London has repertory unprecedented statements and
showings of its restored 360 great illustrations, including the newly
British films and reveals unknowns in its uncovered trailer and stills from
From the Archive sessions – segments of the film not now extant --
http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/film/austral
www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/f ias-lost-films/
ilm_programme/regular_strands/from_t Does that impressive and very creditable
he_archive start mean that any actual search steps
have been taken in 18 months? Probably
And what about the project announced not. The spirit and the intent of the
at the Archive’s ‘Captain Thunderbolt’ original Last Film Search seem to have
presentation at Sydney Film Festival, slid away while Canberra pursues World
“Australia’s Lost Films Search and Film status. Come back, Michael Cordell!
Rescue”, known as ALFSAR?
David Donaldson,
Adelaide

David was one of the
student group who in the
1950s did lengthy
“rescue” on ‘The Kid
Stakes’ (1927), now a
star item within NFSA.

Left:
“1927 Australian film
THE KID STAKES (off
screen)”