The latest group of 9 inscriptions to UNESCO’s Australian National Memory of the World Register were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. They included the surviving fragments of Australia’s first narrative feature film The Story of the Kelly Gang, a six-reel drama made in 1906, which are held at the National Film and Sound Archive (Screensound) in Canberra.

The UNESCO “Memory of the World” program has national registers of documentary heritage, as well as the better known international register. If you want to visit these go to: www.awm.org.au to find the Australian register or to www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm for the International register.

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