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Associations
Key associations concerned with the study or preservation of media history covering film, radio, sound recordings, newspapers and journalism. Lists contact details for each organisation.
Australian and New Zealand
International
Australian and New Zealand
Australian Council of Film Societies
http://www.acmi.net.au/acofs.htm
Existing groups or individuals interested in starting a film society can request information and advice from the State Federations of Film Societies or ACOFS (the parent body). They provide information, advice and services that are not available to the individual. Among the benefits available through ACOFS include:
- A film insurance scheme to protect against loss or damage of film
- Film distribution arrangements to reduce the cost of film hire and freight
- A voucher system for the use of the AFI Research and Information Library
- Other services include film weekends, film appraisal screenings and the publication of newsletters.
The Australian Council of Film Societies is located in Melbourne.
Australian Film Institute
http://www.afi.org.au/
Founded in 1958, the AFI is Australia’s foremost screen culture organisation. The AFI has promoted Australian film and television for over 48 years and is responsible for producing Australia’s premier film and television awards, the annual AFI Awards. The AFI is a membership-based organisation. The AFI is located in South Melbourne.
Australian Historical Association
http://www.theaha.org.au/
The AHA was founded in 1973 and is the premier national organisation of historians, academic, professional and other, working in all fields of history. Its members number around 700, including universities, libraries and other affiliates. AHA conferences are held annually and a number of prizes, awards and honorary fellowships are offered. The Executive Committee of the AHA draws its members from all Australia, while its Secretariat is currently located at Macquarie University in Sydney.
Australian Newspaper History Group
http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/collection/UQ:12816
The Australian Newspaper History Group is an informal network of people who fill one or more of the following categories:
- They are interested in the history of Australian newspapers.
- They appreciate the value of newspapers for the history they provide.
- They want to know about current developments in newspapers.
- They work, or have worked, in the industry.
The ANHG publishes a lively Newsletter (generally 20 A4 pages) five times a year that covers current developments (metropolitan and national; online newspapers; and provincial and community); newspaper history; and recently published books, theses and articles. The Newsletter subscribers include the National Library of Australia and most State Libraries. The newsletter is available free to electronic subscribers and for a fee to hard-copy subscribers.
The ANHG has also published seven books related to Australian newspaper history. State, national and international inquiries about Australian newspaper history are frequently forwarded to the ANHG for information and advice. The ANHg has also contributed the select chronology of Australian newspaper events, dating from 1802, that appears on the ANPlan link accessed through the National Library of Australia website.
Contact the editor, Rod Kirkpatrick, via email at rodthejourno@hotmail.com.
Australian and New Zealand Communication Association
http://www.anzca.net/
The Australian and New Zealand Communication Association is a professional association for teachers and researchers in the diverse disciplines of communication. The Association provides its members with a subscription to two of the best Australian journals. Media InternationalAustralia incorporating Culture and Policy and the Australian Journal of Communication, and it conducts an annual conference for presentation of refereed papers in all disciplines.
Australian Old Time Radio Shows Group
http://www.australianotr.com.au/
Members of the Australian Old Time Radio Shows group are interested in listening to, researching and documenting the Golden Years of Australian Radio, normally accepted as the period from the 1923 to 1960s (inclusive). The group has many ongoing projects including:
Australian Series and Serials DATABASE
The database of Australian Series and Serials is a special project undertaken by our Chief Researcher, Moris Sztajer, who has achieved some amazing results in the last couple of years. This website and the search engines that you find on the site are a testimony to Moris’s research skills. Currently the database stands at over 3,158 Australian series and serials.
Radio Transcriptions
Several of the members collect radio transcriptions and have done so for several decades. Transcription discs are like LPs and were made for radio station use only. This was how the radio production houses moved the series/serials to the studio, apart from live performances of course. Transcription discs were meant to be destroyed after use, some times a single use and other times they were licensed for a period. Fortunately not all were destroyed and we owe this heritage to those who protected the discs.
Documentation
Several members collect books, documents, photos, ephemera from the Golden Years of Australian radio. We will bring these to you on this website. All these items assist us in documenting Australian radio shows as well as radio stations and all the people involved.
Australian Radio and Audio Researchers Association
Contact: Dr John Tebbutt
john.tebbutt@latrobe.mq.edu.au
Australasian Sound Recordings Association, Victoria, Australia
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sound/
Aims of ASRA: To initiate and encourage activities that develop and improve the organisation, administration and contents of recorded sound collections, in the Australasian (i.e. the South West Pacific) region; to strengthen the bonds of co-operation between individual collectors, sound archives and institutions which preserve documents of recorded sound; to study all techniques relevant to the work of sound archives and other institutions which preserve documents of recorded sound and to disseminate the results of such studies; to encourage, especially in the Australasian region, the exchange of sound recordings and of all information relating to sound recordings; to encourage projects designed to promote the standard of sound archiving in the Australasian region; to stimulate and further by every means the preparation and dissemination of inventories based on recorded sound collections in the Australasian region. ASRA is also responsible for the publication of the Australasian Sound Archive. The bi-annual journal features papers by fellow professionals in the sound and archival industries and often includes papers delivered at the ASRA annual conference.
Journalism Education Association, South Pacific
http://www.jea.org.au/
The Journalism Education Association (JEA) is a collection of people from Australian and the South Pacific region who are either involved with journalism education /or training, or are committed to the objectives of the association. The objectives of JEA are to:
- raise the standard of teaching of journalism;
- collect and disseminate information about journalism education;
- develop closer relations with mass communication media and professional associations;
- promote the views of the JEA;
foster research; and
- promote freedom of expression and communication.
Radio Heritage Foundation
http://www.radioheritage.net/
We’re sharing the stories of Pacific radio. More than anywhere else in the world, radio found an easy home here, conquering vast distances of ocean, and connecting the scattered islands with each other in much the same way early Polynesian seafarers used the sea itself as their main means of communication. We are based in Wellington, New Zealand.
Radiowise
http://www.radioinfo.com.au/
A site for those involved with commercial radio in Australia. Subscribers have access to the Radioinfo website including:
- News, interviews and same day ratings from Nielsen Media Research
- Email alerts of new jobs on the site straight to your inbox as soon as they go up
- Searchable news database for past four years
- Paper Clips—what the print media is saying about radio across Australia
- Your profile in Faces for Radio: You can put up your picture and bio and even an air-check. It’s a great way for the industry to get to know you and you to meet the industry and show that you’re part of it
- Access to Macca’s Bits ’n’ Pieces—expanded movements, gossip and fun stuff
- A discussion forum
Wireless House, Glebe
http://www.radioheritage.net/
Internationally renowned sound-artist Nigel Helyer and his team from 'Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture' are breathing life back into the historic Wireless House located in Glebe's Foley Park. Glebe's Wireless House was a unique place for the community to enjoy listening to daily radio programmes, it operated from 1934 until the early fifties. The Wireless House Project aims to 're-sound', or add sound back into the structure, creating a contemporary version of its original social function.
International
European Television History Network
http://cms.let.uu.nl/ethn/
ETHN is a network that connects scholars, archivists and institutions working on the history of television in Europe. The network encourages the exchange of research and experiences and the development of collaborative research projects that help to explore a comparative approach to television history.
International Association for Media and History
http://www.iamhist.org/
The International Association for Media and History is an organisation of filmmakers, broadcasters, archivists and scholars dedicated to historical inquiry into film, radio, television, and related media. We encourage scholarly research into the relations between history and the media as well as the production of historically informed documentaries, television series, and other media texts.
The organisation publishes the quarterly Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
http://www.iamhist.org/journal/index.html
International Federation of Film Archives
http://www.fiafnet.org/
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing films both as cultural heritage and as historical documents.
Founded in Paris in 1938, FIAF is a collaborative association of the world's leading film archives whose purpose has always been to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion pictures. Today, more than 120 archives in over 65 countries collect, restore, and exhibit films and cinema documentation spanning the entire history of film.
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
http://www.rs4vp.org
A lively and collegial group dedicated to the study of the world's first mechanized "mass" press--newspapers, magazines, and other serial publications--that came into being in 19th-century Britain and its Empire. Members of RSVP are involved in the study of British literature and society, as well as in the emerging fields of book history and media history.
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