From The Age:
Victorians can now access Australia\’s largest and most comprehensive film collection, after a dedicated army of volunteers recently sifted through the last of tens of thousands of rare feature films, newsreels and documentaries during an ambitious six-year project . . .
Ian Line, who started as a volunteer in 1995 and is now one of three full-time supervisors, says the project has been a labour of love for more than 120 volunteers . . .\”You probably can\’t see some of these films anywhere else in the world,\” he says. \”It\’s an international collection of all types of cinema, and one of the biggest 16-millimetre historical records of the 20th century.\”
More. The collection contains an amazing array of films, from 1939\’s Experiments in the Revival of Organisms, (which documents a Russian experiment to resurrect dead animals) to 1969\’s One Hundred Odd Years from Now, an infomercial \”set in a strange, . . . world where women control things by using huge, colourful computers.\”
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