Note: These documents are in Adobe PDF format.

Proposal for an Advisory Committee for the National Film and Sound Archive

Preserving the Identity and Status of the National Film & Sound Archive (Screensound Australia)

Proposal for a Centre for Archival Research in Screen and Sound

Cinderella Betrayed: the shoe won't fit
A detailed consideration of issues arising from the AFC's proposals for the Archive prepared by Archive Forum.

Backgrounder to Cinderella Betrayed
A three page summary of the Archive Forum response.

What's happening at ScreenSound Australia?
A summary of issues written by Andrew Pike a self-described "archive watcher" and Director of Ronin Films (18/12/03).

What's happening at ScreenSound Australia II?
Andrew Pike revisits the AFC's Discussion Paper 2.

Wolf at the door
An article published in the Canberra Times about the review process and the implications of Discussion Paper 2 written by Ray Edmondson

• Responses to Discussion Paper 1

Archive Forum
Ray Edmonson
Lisa French, Lecturer RMIT University
Brett Galt-Smith, Member, SSA Indigenous Reference Group (former Research Director, Strehlow Research Centre, Alice Springs)
Deb Verhoeven, Senior Lecturer RMIT University, member of Archive Forum

• Responses to the merger announcement

Australian Film Commission responds to Federal Government's decision to integrate ScreenSound Australia with the AFC - 13 May 2003

Friends of the Archive call for merger safeguards - A media release from the Friends of the National Film and Sound Archive, Inc - 20 May 2003

'Job Losses to follow cultural review' - Statement by Shadow Arts Minister, Bob McMullan MP - 15 May 2003

New arrangements for the Australian Film Commission and ScreenSound Australia - 13 May 2003

Integration of Screensound Australia and Australian Film Commission - A media release from The Archive - 14 May 2003

Archive Forum founding documents

Archive Forum Foundation Statement

Archive Forum Paper, A Series #1 'A Time For Review'

Time in Our Hands

Time in Our Hands Scorecard
This report was commissioned by the Archive Council in 1999 to assess just how far the original vision for the Archive outlined in Time in Our Hands had been fulfilled.

The Charter

Parameters for legislation

Other documents

FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE in cooperation with AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF ARCHIVISTS (ACT Branch) COMMUNIQUE - STATEMENT AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONFERENCE ON “THE FUTURE OF THE ARCHIVE”

A FRIGHTENING FUTURE FOR OUR CULTURAL ICONS? By Ray Edmondson

Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Budget Estimates Supplementary Hearings 20 November 2002. Topic: National Film and Sound Archive / ScreenSound Australia, name change.