We’ve got Australian Music, Movies, & TV for whenever you’re craving Down Under. Whether it’s old classics like Mad Max and Fitzroy that are set in Australia or new favorites such as The Sapphires and Redfern Now, there’s something for everyone.
The first movie shown in Australia was on Thomas Edison’s Vistascope at the Atheneaum Hall, Melbourne, Victoria in October 1896. The same equipment was used a month later to film the Melbourne Cup. Said to be the world’s first feature-length film, the Tait Brothers’ The Story of the Kelly Gang premiered at the Athenaeum in 1906.
Silent movies were enormously popular and by 1911 Sydney had over 100 permanent and temporary picture shows. As many as 65,000 people in Melbourne in 1913 went to the movies every Saturday night. One of the earliest was the 1906 movie The History of the Kelly Gang.
Talking movies came to Australia for the first time on 2 February 1929 with the debut of The Jazz Singer at the Athenaeum. The “talkie” was so popular, it had a year-long season at the Athenaeum.
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What’s on?
Movies
Australian Lending Libraries & Archives
- ACMI Lending Collection
Australian Centre for the Moving Image - ScreenSound Australia
Collects and preserves Australia’s audio visual heritage.
Government Websites
- Australian Film Commission
- National Film & Sound
- Australian Film Finance Corporation
- Department of Communications,
Information Technology and the Arts - Film Victoria
- New South Wales Film & Television Office
- QLD – Pacific Film & Television Comm
- Screen Tasmania
- WA – Screenwest
- South Australian Film Corporation
Television
Record Companies
- EMI Australia
- BMG Australia
- Sony Music
- Warner Music
- Universal Music
- Shock Records
- Aztec Music – re-issue label
- Raven Records – re-issues
Music
- ARIA (Australian Record Industry Assoc)
- Chart Central
- mp3.com.au
- Zero Hour Records
- Oz Music Online – rare, collectible music
- Ozzie Music Man
If you love old Aussie music and the unusual, you must see this site. It has some music to download, but the true value is the interesting info and images for unusual things like Dame Edna Everage’s song Disco Matilda and Rolf Harris song Ringo for President. Yes, that’s Ringo of Beatles fame. - Australian Music Web Site
Australian Theatre
- Drama Australia
- Theatre Australia
- Ensemble Theatre
- Theatre for Young People
- Canberra Theatre Centre
- Perth Theatre Company
- Sydney Theatre Company
- Centre Stage Theatre Company
- State Theatre Company
- Tweed Theatre Company NSW
- Melbourne Athenaeum
Australian Comedy
- Rove Live
- Skit House
- Tripod
- Comedy Live
- Comedy.com.au
- Impro Australia
- Merrick & Rosso
- Melbourne Comedy Festival
Other
- AusFILM
- APRA & AMCOS Australasian Performing Rights Assoc & Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners
- Australian Christian Artists Network
- Australian Film Television & Radio School
- Southern Cross Broadcasting
- Australia’s Cultural Network
- Australian Film Institute
- Australian Screen Directors Association
- EnhanceTV (for teachers)
- Screen Network Australia
- Screen Producers Association of Australia
- Screen Services Association of Victoria
