Lobby card for the film Eureka Stockade (US title, Massacre Hill), directed by Harry Watt, shows Chips Rafferty as rebel leader Peter Lalor fighting to the last man in a film stil

This lobby card from the film, Eureka Stockade (US title, Massacre Hill), directed by Harry Watt, shows actor Chips Rafferty as Peter Lalor compelling the miners to unite.

The Loyal Rebel is an Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe set against the background of the Eureka Stockade.

What did Australians watch at their local cinema during the First World War? A new exhibition at ACMI, produced in collaboration with the NFSA, has the answer.

NFSA conservator Shingo Ishikawa and digitisation specialist Darren Weinert talk about digital preservation and packaging of cinema slides.

NFSA conservator Shingo Ishikawa and digitisation specialist Darren Weinert talk about cinema slides and their history, manufacture and preservation.

NFSA conservator Shingo Ishikawa and digitisation specialist Darren Weinert talk about the NFSA's glass slide preservation project.

Sally Jackson on the importance of silent film preservation as seen in Hugo.

Film curator Sally Jackson's examination of original documents in Australia and France sheds new light on the man who brought the cinema to Australia in 1896.