sounds of Melbourne

the National Film and Sound Archive is honouring some of Australia's significant moments in sound - Keating's speech on reconciliation, and Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody's "from little things, big things grow"...the NFSA has a huge collection of images and sounds that are not online yet, but they are happy to digitise them if you want to look at them...a lot of the film and TV images in the book came from the collection. What I found interesting is that they don't just collect the films themselves, but also posters, press images, stills and other incidental stuff...great for seeing how these things were really put together as cultural products, not stand-alone bits of footage.