australianscreen online
australianscreen online, a groundbreaking new website initiative from the Australian Film Commission, was announced last week by the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator the Hon. Helen Coonan, at Parliament House in Canberra on 30 March.
Set to go live in 2007, australianscreen online will include clips from over 1,000 film and television programs from the collections of the National Film and Sound Archive and other project partners, including the National Archives of Australia, the ABC, SBS and Film Australia. Excerpts from feature films, documentaries, newsreels, short films and animations, as well as radio broadcasts produced in Australia over the past 100 years, will be accessible online to all Australians, irrespective of their geographic location.
"This cutting edge project will well and truly take Australia's audiovisual heritage into the digital age," said Chris Fitchett, the AFC's Acting Chief Executive.
For more information, visit: www.afc.gov.au.
Set to go live in 2007, australianscreen online will include clips from over 1,000 film and television programs from the collections of the National Film and Sound Archive and other project partners, including the National Archives of Australia, the ABC, SBS and Film Australia. Excerpts from feature films, documentaries, newsreels, short films and animations, as well as radio broadcasts produced in Australia over the past 100 years, will be accessible online to all Australians, irrespective of their geographic location.
"This cutting edge project will well and truly take Australia's audiovisual heritage into the digital age," said Chris Fitchett, the AFC's Acting Chief Executive.
For more information, visit: www.afc.gov.au.