AustLit

The Writer in Australian Television History collection is a research outcome of Dr Catriona Mills's 2012 AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) Research Fellowship.

The project is a collection of AustLit records based on the content of the Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) at RMIT. A subset of the AFIRC’s main collection, the Crawford Collection contains scripts and ancillary material relating to Australian radio and television production company Crawford Productions, from the radio serials of the 1940s and 1950s to the demolition of the Box Hill studios in 2006. The Writer in Australian Television History is a collection of records for 318 episodes of Crawfords’ radio dramas and television series, spanning the period from 1953 to 1977.

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Australian Film on the Internet Archive collects together information on early Australian films (from 1906 to 1944) that are available to watch via the Internet Archive. The exhibition's content includes the films themselves, AustLit records, and information gathered from Trove.

The Silent Film Era: Silent Films in Australian Newspapers collects together advertisements, publicity stills, and other images relating to the silent film industry in Australia (1906-1929). This is the type of material drawn on to create and enhance AustLit records, which is here given centre stage.

Australians and Adaptations, supported by the ARC-funded Discovery Project, DP130101455 ‘Media Transformation in its Australian and International Contexts: Analysis and Theory-building’ by Prof. Tom O'Regan, begins to explore the tradition of adaptation in Australian films, radio, and television. It was first built in 2014, and expanded, enhanced, and brought up to date in 2020.