National Film and Sound Archive
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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day.
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| Established | 5 April 1984 (1984-04-05) |
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| Location | McCoy Circuit, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| Coordinates | 35.283950°S 149.121075°E / -35.283950; 149.121075 |
| Type | Audiovisual Archive |
| Collection size | 3 million works |
| CEO | Patrick McIntyre |
| Chairperson | Caroline Elliot |
| Owner | Government of Australia |
| Employees | 162 (at June 2019)[1] |
| Nearest parking | Free parking surrounding the building on Liversedge Street |
| Website | www |
The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra.
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