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A Day to Remember

My first foray to Canberra had been in March 1951 for the then-longed for silent film
classics that were just starting to flow into the hut-housed National Library Film
Division. On 3 October 2014, here I was in the elegant courtyard of the National Film
and Sound Archive, acknowledging thirty years of occupation of the old Institute of
Anatomy building. Floriade time in Canberra: a glorious afternoon.

Senator for South Australia Anne Ruston stood in with some good words from the Arts
Minister, George Brandis, who himself had joined a NFSA Board meeting a week
earlier. Looking spry in the moderate-sized mob was former director Graham Gilmour.
Lending collegial support was Grace Koch from AIATSIS, which just down the road
holds so much indigenous study material.

National Film & Sound Archive building - Canberra
Distinguished producer Sue Millikan was chatting with ditto Anthony Buckley and
Andrew Pike, to whom we owe that basic research tome, Australian Film 1900-1977.

Sydney-based curator of film, documents and artefacts Gayle Lake, Melbourne office
chief and curator of television Helen Tully, former catalog chief Sue Terry, tech whiz
Jeff Brownrigg, information man David Hogan – he meets you at
enquiries@nfsa.gov.au.

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