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The indigenous documentary, Contact, is a joint winner of the Foxtel Australian Documentary Prize at the Sydney Film Festival. It shares top honours with A Good Man.

28/02/2009

Winner of the ABC Buzz Award at AIDC

ABC Library Sales attended the Australian International Documentary Conference and sponsored the first Buzz Award to recognise the documentary generating the most interest at the event.

10/02/2009

ABC sponsors The Buzz award at AIDC

ABC Library Sales is proudly sponsoring The Buzz Award and recognising the project generating the most interest and widely considered a must see at the Australian International Documentary Conference in Adelaide from 18 – 20 February 2009.

10/02/2009

Rare footage of folk singer Pete Seeger set for new DVD

ABC Archives has unearthed incredibly rare concert footage of legendary folk singer Pete Seeger’s 1963 Australian tour which is being mastered onto a new double DVD.

10/02/2009

Review of the CIRCA multimedia project at the National Museum

Our Library Sales consultant Elizabeth Ellis visited the National Museum of Australia recently for the official launch of the CIRCA film project which she has worked on since early 2006. She gives her review here.

15/12/2008

ABC Bloopers on YouTube

See hilarious on air gaffes and amusing stuff ups from your favourite ABC shows, recently unearthed from our archive, on the dedicated ABC Entertainment channel on YouTube.

15/12/2008

Academy Award-winning animators use ABC commentary

ABC Library Sales is proud to have contributed some ‘ambiance’ to the new claymation feature film, Mary & Max, produced by Oscar winners Adam Elliot and Melanie Coombs from Melodrama Pictures (Harvey Krumpet).

15/12/2008

See us at AIDC

The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) in February is just around the corner, and ABC Library Sales will be there!

15/12/2008

Stunning Natural History collection added to our library

ABC Library Sales has recently acquired the rights to the spectacular natural history footage collection from multi-award winning cinematographer and producer, David Warth.

15/12/2008

Uncovering the ABC's Rugby League footage

We’ve previously told you about Sales Consultant Elizabeth Ellis preparing the definitive list of our Rugby League material in preparation for the Centenary Year of Rugby League.

28/08/2008

Australian Centre for Moving Images uses ABC footage

The Australian Centre for Moving Images is re-designing its permanent exhibition.

28/08/2008

Exciting times as ABC News goes Tapeless

The ABC’s Melbourne Newsroom is leading the way by jettisoning physical tape stock, as they trial a new tapeless system.

28/08/2008

GTK footage in Hollywood Blockbuster

Footage from the ABC’s GTK program from the 70s appears in Martin Scorsese’s recent film, Shine A Light, on The Rolling Stones.

28/08/2008

Our one-stop “content shop”

In recent changes at ABC Commercial, Library Sales and Non-Theatric Sales have merged to create a one-stop “content shop” for our broad range of clients.

28/08/2008

Select footage added to catalogue

Library Sales is always scouting around to take on representations of quality footage that we know there is a demand for. Three recent representations are:

28/08/2008

The ABC’s archives – a treasure trove of material

The ABCs archives are a treasure trove of great footage, and we are constantly coming across fascinating material.

28/08/2008

Veteran ABC Researcher retires after 35 years and we welcome a new team member

After 35 years, our Melbourne-based Library Sales guru, Barrie Beckwith has decided to file away the digi beta’s in favour of the “good life”, retiring in May.

02/04/2008

ABC's Rugby League Collection

If you are a sports fan like me, then you’ll agree that the next twelve months are going to be very exciting for us. Australia celebrates 100 years of Rugby League this year. ABC TV broadcast Rugby League matches from 1960s until 1995 which has expanded our already extensive sports collection.

02/04/2008

Australian War Memorial - Conflicts 1945 to today

This is the War Memorial’s newest gallery which looks at the conflicts and peace keeping missions from 1945 up until the current day.

02/04/2008

Library Sales has a new researcher!

I am very excited to welcome the newest addition to the Library Sales research team. Beth Shepherd started her journey by working at the ABC Shop part-time whilst she was studying. After working in the shop for 2 years, she then moved into Non-Theatric Sales in 2004. After travelling overseas, she returned to the ABC in 2007 and began researching for Library Sales.

02/04/2008

Library Sales now dubbing to DVCPRO and HD CAM!

The Library Sales in-house dubbing facility has recently acquired some new state of the art dubbing machines.

02/04/2008

Melbourne Cricket Club Museum - The National Sports Museum exhibitions

The National Sports Museum opened last month at the MCG. It contains a variety of exhibitions ranging from ‘Backyard to Baggy Green’, ‘Armchair Footy’ and ‘Spirit of Sport’ to name a few.

02/04/2008

National Museum of Australia: CIRCA – Australian Journeys

The National Museum of Australia's Circa theatre, re-opening early in 2008 after being refurbished, will take visitors on a unique journey through history from deep time to contemporary Australia.

02/04/2008

Powerhouse Museum Acquires Norman Gunston Jacket

In recent news, Garry McDonald has donated his famous Norman Gunston jacket to the Powerhouse Museum.

04/12/2007

ABC Footage tells the History of Radio

Thanks for Listening: the History of Australian Radio was produced by Graham McNeice productions for the History Channel. The four-part series premiered on 18 November 2007.

04/12/2007

AP Archive

AP Archive, the video archive of the Associated Press, one of the world’s most distinguished news footage collections has been represented by the ABC in Australasia and South East Asia since 1996. We hold a significant selection of their material in our Sydney office and can organise for material to be sent from London.

04/12/2007

Great Australian Albums

ABC footage was heavily featured in the fantastic SBS series ‘Great Australian Albums’ (now out on DVD).

04/12/2007

Jack Egan’s Cricket Legacy

Sadly, one of Australia’s great commentators on the game of Cricket passed away earlier this year.

Jack Egan had worked closely with ABC Sport and ABC Archives over the years. He spent many hours in the ABC archives cataloguing the ABC cricket archive from 1958-79, the years when the ABC had exclusive rights to the television coverage of cricket in Australia.

04/12/2007

Music – FLASHEZ clips

Ray Burgess, Australian musician and TV Presenter, who was the principal host of the late 1970’s ABC youth culture program FLASHEZ has very generously donated 4 full episodes of the series to the ABC.