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Archives : An Archivist | Archives on the Net | Australian Museum | Blade Runner | Business & Labour archiving | Class of '86 | Ephemera | Grant publication mandates | Heaven, Hell & Canberra | Utopian Cinema - Metropolis | Saving the NFSA | Streaming the Archive | Surfing the Internet | Garry Shead, Thirroul. During the presentation of the annual Rod Wallace Memorial Lecture at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), Canberra, on Thursday, 14 November 2024 by the ever colourful and lively  Professor Deb Verhoeven , formerly of Melbourne and of the NFSA Board, but at the time attached to the University of Alberta, Canada, an interesting science-fiction  article  from  The Sun , Sydney, newspaper of 2 April 1916 was noted. It predicted the creation of a future Australian film and sound archive, with a focus on the preservation and promotion of documentary footage - referred to as actualities - recording sign

| Martin Sharp archive | Abstract : On 9 November 2024 Australian artist Martin Sharp's former carer Angelica Frances Tremblay posted on Facebook an image of an original artwork by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (c.1760-1849) that Sharp had found in Paris during the winter of 1974 (illustrated at right). The work was subsequently stolen around 1976 upon arrival in Tokyo for appraisal. This stolen work eventually found its way into the collection of American Gillett Griffin who, in 2007, donated it to the Princeton University Library, where it remains to the present day. An account of the work is given, outlining Sharp's discovery, his reaction to the loss of a much treasured item, the making of copies in screenprint and paint, and the original work's place in Hokusai's oeuvre and the broader Ukiyo-e genre of Japanese art of the Tokugawa or Edo period (1603-1868). ------------------- Contents Introduction Finding a Hokusai The Princeton work