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You may or may not have heard about the 1973 TV pilot ‘Spinifex Breed – Marra Marra”. But thanks to the conservation team at AIATSIS, the film will now be available for future generations.

The National Digital Forum is an annual conference that has been running since 2002 which brings together a range of professionals in the GLAM sector and wider industry to discuss current projects, new technologies and future directions. Our focus was on the digitisation stream, which had a range of interesting topics.

Our engineering section archives and maintains the devices and ancillary machines that are needed to play back the sound and vision recorded on the 55,000 hours of video and audio held on magnetic tape in the collection.

Lantern slides are a unique format that were in wide use from the 18th to mid-20th century and allowed glass photographic transparencies to be displayed using a magic lantern projector.