The National Film and Sound Archive has preserved recordings of the long-running TV show as important cultural artefacts that captured the national zeitgeist.
The final episode of Neighbours, an icon of Australian television over almost four decades, was broadcast this week.The National Film and Sound Archive has preserved Neighbours episodes as important cultural artefactsCurator Chris Arneil says the show marked the zeitgeist
Those tapes — about 6,500 episodes — are now stored on an NFSA site in the industrial ACT suburb of Mitchell."There was literally a working bee-type arrangement, day and night: people around the clock getting the tapes catalogued into the collection."Neighbours launched the careers of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and many others.But their impact on popular culture has been profound in several ways — not least for starting the careers of some of the nation's acting and music stars.
"If you enjoy a TV show like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones — that's serialised television, [with] origins in soap operas."Neighbours and its other soap-opera cousins were also incredibly popular, with massive audiences that exceeded those of most TV shows today. "If the NFSA want me to go through all the footage and catalogue it for them, I am willing to do that free of charge."NFSA curator Chris Arneil says Neighbours chronicled mainstream Australian life.
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