DOCSLIB.ORG

Page 1 of 1 Archive 6/15/2009 File://E:\Channel 7 Days\Final PDF

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Page 1 of 1 Archive 6/15/2009 File://E:\Channel 7 Days\Final PDF archive Page 1 of 1 L-R Jim Fisher, Ken Hankock, June Bronhill, Bill Catmul, Graham Foster, Jack Perry, Mary Hardy, Doug McKenzie, Athol Guy, Judith Durham, Bruce Woodley, Keith Potger, Rod Kirkham, John Symons, Panda Listner, Happy Hammond, Alf Potter, Jimmy Edwards, Geoff Owen-Taylor. Doug Elliot, Ian Turpie, Shirleen Clancy, Elaine McKenna, Mike Williamson, Syd Haylen, Bill Collins, Norman Spencer, Olivia Newton-John, Pat Carrol, Dick Jones, Hector Crawford, Johnathon Daly, John Gilby, Rowland Strong, Marlene Dietrich, Raymond Burr, Peter Doyle, Brendan McKenna, Ann Watt, Jean Hanger, Bob Crosby, Alf Spargo, Greame Fettling and Eric Scherer. file://E:\Channel 7 Days\Final PDF F&S Archive\Page 00.html 6/15/2009 Page 1 of 1 Channel 7 Days - A Memoir of John Symons time at HSV Channel 7, Melbourne, Australia 1960-1970 Page 01 Baird's first mechanical television Now a number of members have have sent photos including John put together a CD of photo's of the Gilby, Graham Fettling and my reunions, plus a collection of mother Nancy. Introduction These were very interesting times as all local programming was live- historical photos of the early days John Logie Baird My name is John to-air. I worked at the channel for Ex-channel 7 staff Symons. I was 10 years before starting my own member Harold Aspinall John Logie Baird was born on born in 1944, in a television production company sent a copy of the CD to August 13th, 1888, in Helensburgh, small country which I ran until I retired in 1997. I me. I was so inspired by Dunbarton, Scotland and died on town, Leongatha now live on the island of Bali in these old photos, June 14th, 1946. The television 130 km south east Indonesia. I decided to write a memoir of the pioneer created the first of Melbourne, period from my perspective. Photos televised pictures of Australia. Old Codgers were augmented by others from objects in motion In 1960 at the age of 16, I was In recent years one of the internet. We acknowledge (1924) the first lucky enough to get a job at HSV the old timers from the these suppliers of photographs. televised human face channel 7 in Melbourne. Television era, Mr Donald Smith Harold Aspinall, Russell Bourne, (1925) and a year later J.L. Baird in Australia was still in it's infancy, has formed a group Richard Bence, Dick McEwan, Dick he televised the first moving object only beginning in Melbourne in late called the OLD Jones, Graham Foster, Don Smith, image in London. The BBC started 1956, in time for the Melbourne CODGERS. Annually he organizes a David Perry, John Walters and broadcasting television on the Baird Olympic Games. reunion of people from the era. Wilma Gray. Also many others who 30-line system in 1929. file://C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\TZGYV9W4.htm 6/15/2009 Page 1 of 1 Channel 7 Days - A Memoir of John Symons time at HSV Channel 7, Melbourne, Australia 1960-1970 Page 02 In July 1930, the first British Play How it worked to a lamp, providing the two was transmitted, "The Man with the scanning wheels were in Tv in Australia Flower in his Mouth. " The world's synchronization the viewer would The engineering pioneer of first regular transmissions using the see an image. Australian Television was James electronic Marconi-EMI, 405 line As the subject varied from black to Hurbert Thomas Fisher, born 1911 system started in England in 1936. white so did the lamp, reproducing and died at the age of 81 in 1992. a picture. Later the thermonic He commenced camera tube was invented. studying at the The scanning University of wheel, consisted Adelaide in 1929 of 2 identical and in 1930 he scanning wheels joined the drilled to create a Postmaster scan of the Generals object. department (PMG) as a cadet engineer. After qualifying in 1930 he moved to Melbourne to work for the PMG Early ad for Baird Tv kits research laboratories. 20 years before the advent of television in The "Logies" Australia he avidly read overseas The annual Australian Television technical publications on the awards are called the "Logies" development of television. In 1937 in honour of to raise awareness of Tv, he wrote John Logie and presented a paper "Recent Baird. The name developments in Television" He was suggested gave a demonstration with a hand The Baird mechanical Tv by the "King" built system of his own design. Pre and first star of The picture information was W.W.II Mr Fisher presented many Australian picked up by a photo-electric The first television picture secret reports to the Australian Television, Graham Kennedy. valve, passed through an amplifier using Baird's scanner Government on the development file://C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\GYDN9NJG.htm 6/15/2009 archive Page 1 of 1 Channel 7 Days - A Memoir of John Symons time at HSV Channel 7, Melbourne, Australia 1960-1970 Page 03 of Tv overseas and it's possible the Federation of Australian roof level for easy maintenance. introduction to Australia. W.W.II Commercial Television Stations. The microwave dishes pointed interrupted Mr Fisher's research, he upwards to a "beam-bender" set at Building a Tv Station was redeployed to the secret 45 degrees, sending the signal on 1955 Mr Fisher was faced with the development of radar. After the to Mt Dandenong. formidable task of building a war there was pressure to adopt television station from ground up. A the British 405 line Tv standard. Mr transmitter had to be built at Mt Fisher put forward the radical Dandenong, studios had to be built proposal to introduce the much in South Melbourne, all in time for advanced 625 line system. He was the Melbourne Olympic Games in Demolition at Dorcas St successful and that system is still in late 1956. use today. Mr Fisher travelled to Europe and the US to study the latest developments in Television, returned to Australia to train many technicians and creative in the new medium. Two of his students were Hector and Dorothy Crawford. Mr Fisher left the PMG in 1954 and joined the Broadcast Control Board The tower under construction where he wrote the first technical The studio tower, clearly standards for the introduction of The Studios showing the "beam-bender" television to Australia. The Meanwhile an old paper store On top of the tower was a fully following year he was to join HSV7 owned by HSV7 owners, The motor controlled microwave dish Melbourne to become Chief Herald and Weekly Times was for receiving broadcasts from the engineer. He held the position until being partly demolished for the Outside Broadcast (OB) van. The his retirement in 1977. In 1986 the construction of the South location making broadcasts possible Tower base and Studio 1 Television Society of Australia Melbourne link tower. The South from most parts of the city, From the master control room the presented him with the Colin Melbourne tower had an unusual especially the inner-city VFL football motorized dish could be controlled, Bednal Award and in 1989 he was feature which allowed the grounds, making 7 the premier horizontally or vertically, the 2 large awarded the Paul Marlan Award by microwave transmitters to be at football channel. circular white dials in the .... file://E:\Channel 7 Days\Final PDF F&S Archive\Page 03.html 6/15/2009 archive Page 1 of 1 Channel 7 Days - A Memoir of John Symons time at HSV Channel 7, Melbourne, Australia 1960-1970 Page 04 picture below indicating the dish's source, 1 camera unit, but with compas position and asmuth. mechanical controls you could dissolve between a slide and film. Reel changes were done as in a cinema. Commercial were spliced into the film so the station could rely on just one of these machines for continuous program. The first video tape machines was not aquired until 1960. Master Control Test Transmissions Work at the transmitter site was Channel-7's OB Van arriving from England at Port Melbourne well advanced compared to the Studio site. At the transmitter a On Aug. 28 1944, in a little country telecine machine was installed and town 140km from Melbourne, 16mm films could be broadcast. Nancy Symons gave birth to a son, The telecine machine was a one John in the Stradbroke hospital, Leongatha. Simple 1 camera telecine Simple setup In 1960 the station only possessed 5 Marconi Mk 3 cameras, 2 telecine's and a vidicon caption camera. A far cry from the present day when stations own hundreds of cameras. The studio cameras were dismantled and taken out to Telecine machine Outside broadcasts (OB's) John at 18 months old file://E:\Channel 7 Days\Final PDF F&S Archive\Page 04.html 6/15/2009 archive Page 1 of 1 CHANNEL 7 DAYS - A Memoir of John Symons time at HSV Channel 7, Melbourne, Australia 1960-1970 Page 05 When I was about 12 and in Form At the High School, Mrs Daisy including "Music for the People", newsagent. From these magazines 1 at the Leongatha High, the first Bacon, the librarian, would paste the "Seekers, welcome home I learnt about how radio's and Tv's Australian Tv channels had started the daily news paper up on the concert" and the annual "Miss worked and taught myself to read test transmissions from Mt inside of the library windows, so Australia Ball" electronic circuits. For around 2 Dandenong, in the Melbourne they could be read from outside by years my mother took me to outskirts.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • 'They're My Two Favourites' Versus' the Bigger Scheme of Things': Pro-Am
    This may be the author’s version of a work that was submitted/accepted for publication in the following source: McKee, Alan & Keating, Chris (2012) ’They’re my two favourites’ versus ’the bigger scheme of things’: Pro-am historians remember Australian television. In Turnbull, S & Darian-Smith, K (Eds.) Remembering television: Histories, technologies, memories. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 52-73. This file was downloaded from: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/54554/ c Copyright 2012 Alan McKee & Chris Keating This work is covered by copyright. Unless the document is being made available under a Creative Commons Licence, you must assume that re-use is limited to personal use and that permission from the copyright owner must be obtained for all other uses. If the docu- ment is available under a Creative Commons License (or other specified license) then refer to the Licence for details of permitted re-use. It is a condition of access that users recog- nise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. If you believe that this work infringes copyright please provide details by email to [email protected] Notice: Please note that this document may not be the Version of Record (i.e. published version) of the work. Author manuscript versions (as Sub- mitted for peer review or as Accepted for publication after peer review) can be identified by an absence of publisher branding and/or typeset appear- ance. If there is any doubt, please refer to the published source. http:// www.c-s-p.org/ flyers/ Remembering-Television--Histories--Technologies--Memories1-4438-3970-1.
    [Show full text]
  • Australian Radio Series
    Radio Series Collection Guide1 Australian Radio Series 1930s to 1970s A guide to ScreenSound Australia’s holdings 1 Radio Series Collection Guide2 Copyright 1998 National Film and Sound Archive All rights reserved. No reproduction without permission. First published 1998 ScreenSound Australia McCoy Circuit, Acton ACT 2600 GPO Box 2002, Canberra ACT 2601 Phone (02) 6248 2000 Fax (02) 6248 2165 E-mail: [email protected] World Wide Web: http://www.screensound.gov.au ISSN: Cover design by MA@D Communication 2 Radio Series Collection Guide3 Contents Foreword i Introduction iii How to use this guide iv How to access collection material vi Radio Series listing 1 - Reference sources Index 3 Radio Series Collection Guide4 Foreword By Richard Lane* Radio serials in Australia date back to the 1930s, when Fred and Maggie Everybody, Coronets of England, The March of Time and the inimitable Yes, What? featured on wireless sets across the nation. Many of Australia’s greatest radio serials were produced during the 1940s. Among those listed in this guide are the Sunday night one-hour plays - The Lux Radio Theatre and The Macquarie Radio Theatre (becoming the Caltex Theatre after 1947); the many Jack Davey Shows, and The Bob Dyer Show; the Colgate Palmolive variety extravaganzas, headed by Calling the Stars, The Youth Show and McCackie Mansion, which starred the outrageously funny Mo (Roy Rene). Fine drama programs produced in Sydney in the 1940s included The Library of the Air and Max Afford's serial Hagen's Circus. Among the comedy programs listed from this decade are the George Wallace Shows, and Mrs 'Obbs with its hilariously garbled language.
    [Show full text]
  • Marie Collier: a Life
    Marie Collier: a life Kim Kemmis A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of History The University of Sydney 2018 Figure 1. Publicity photo: the housewife diva, 3 July 1965 (Alamy) i Abstract The Australian soprano Marie Collier (1927-1971) is generally remembered for two things: for her performance of the title role in Puccini’s Tosca, especially when she replaced the controversial singer Maria Callas at late notice in 1965; and her tragic death in a fall from a window at the age of forty-four. The focus on Tosca, and the mythology that has grown around the manner of her death, have obscured Collier’s considerable achievements. She sang traditional repertoire with great success in the major opera houses of Europe, North and South America and Australia, and became celebrated for her pioneering performances of twentieth-century works now regularly performed alongside the traditional canon. Collier’s experiences reveal much about post-World War II Australian identity and cultural values, about the ways in which the making of opera changed throughout the world in the 1950s and 1960s, and how women negotiated their changing status and prospects through that period. She exercised her profession in an era when the opera industry became globalised, creating and controlling an image of herself as the ‘housewife-diva’, maintaining her identity as an Australian artist on the international scene, and developing a successful career at the highest level of her artform while creating a fulfilling home life. This study considers the circumstances and mythology of Marie Collier’s death, but more importantly shows her as a woman of the mid-twentieth century navigating the professional and personal spheres to achieve her vision of a life that included art, work and family.
    [Show full text]
  • Changing Stations
    1 CHANGING STATIONS FULL INDEX 100 Top Tunes 190 2GZ Junior Country Service Club 128 1029 Hot Tomato 170, 432 2HD 30, 81, 120–1, 162, 178, 182, 190, 192, 106.9 Hill FM 92, 428 247, 258, 295, 352, 364, 370, 378, 423 2HD Radio Players 213 2AD 163, 259, 425, 568 2KM 251, 323, 426, 431 2AY 127, 205, 423 2KO 30, 81, 90, 120, 132, 176, 227, 255, 264, 2BE 9, 169, 423 266, 342, 366, 424 2BH 92, 146, 177, 201, 425 2KY 18, 37, 54, 133, 135, 140, 154, 168, 189, 2BL 6, 203, 323, 345, 385 198–9, 216, 221, 224, 232, 238, 247, 250–1, 2BS 6, 302–3, 364, 426 267, 274, 291, 295, 297–8, 302, 311, 316, 345, 2CA 25, 29, 60, 87, 89, 129, 146, 197, 245, 277, 354–7, 359–65, 370, 378, 385, 390, 399, 401– 295, 358, 370, 377, 424 2, 406, 412, 423 2CA Night Owls’ Club 2KY Swing Club 250 2CBA FM 197, 198 2LM 257, 423 2CC 74, 87, 98, 197, 205, 237, 403, 427 2LT 302, 427 2CH 16, 19, 21, 24, 29, 59, 110, 122, 124, 130, 2MBS-FM 75 136, 141, 144, 150, 156–7, 163, 168, 176–7, 2MG 268, 317, 403, 426 182, 184–7, 189, 192, 195–8, 200, 236, 238, 2MO 259, 318, 424 247, 253, 260, 263–4, 270, 274, 277, 286, 288, 2MW 121, 239, 426 319, 327, 358, 389, 411, 424 2NM 170, 426 2CHY 96 2NZ 68, 425 2Day-FM 84, 85, 89, 94, 113, 193, 240–1, 243– 2NZ Dramatic Club 217 4, 278, 281, 403, 412–13, 428, 433–6 2OO 74, 428 2DU 136, 179, 403, 425 2PK 403, 426 2FC 291–2, 355, 385 2QN 76–7, 256, 425 2GB 9–10, 14, 18, 29, 30–2, 49–50, 55–7, 59, 2RE 259, 427 61, 68–9, 84, 87, 95, 102–3, 107–8, 110–12, 2RG 142, 158, 262, 425 114–15, 120–2, 124–7, 129, 133, 136, 139–41, 2SM 54, 79, 84–5, 103, 119, 124,
    [Show full text]
  • Melbourne Suburb of Northcote
    ON STAGE The Autumn 2012 journal of Vol.13 No.2 ‘By Gosh, it’s pleasant entertainment’ Frank Van Straten, Ian Smith and the CATHS Research Group relive good times at the Plaza Theatre, Northcote. ‘ y Gosh, it’s pleasant entertainment’, equipment. It’s a building that does not give along the way, its management was probably wrote Frank Doherty in The Argus up its secrets easily. more often living a nightmare on Elm Street. Bin January 1952. It was an apt Nevertheless it stands as a reminder The Plaza was the dream of Mr Ludbrook summation of the variety fare offered for 10 of one man’s determination to run an Owen Menck, who owned it to the end. One years at the Plaza Theatre in the northern independent cinema in the face of powerful of his partners in the variety venture later Melbourne suburb of Northcote. opposition, and then boldly break with the described him as ‘a little elderly gentleman The shell of the old theatre still stands on past and turn to live variety shows. It was about to expand his horse breeding interests the west side of bustling High Street, on the a unique and quixotic venture for 1950s and invest in show business’. Mr Menck was corner of Elm Street. It’s a time-worn façade, Melbourne, but it survived for as long as consistent about his twin interests. Twenty but distinctive; the Art Deco tower now a many theatres with better pedigrees and years earlier, when he opened the Plaza as a convenient perch for telecommunication richer backers.
    [Show full text]
  • Herpes: a Patient's Guide
    Herpes: A Patient’s Guide Herpes: A Patient’s Guide Introduction Herpes is a very common infection that is passed through HSV-1 and HSV-2: what’s in a name? ....................................................................3 skin-to-skin contact. Canadian studies have estimated that up to 89% of Canadians have been exposed to herpes simplex Herpes symptoms .........................................................................................................4 type 1 (HSV-1), which usually shows up as cold sores on the Herpes transmission: how do you get herpes? ................................................6 mouth. In a British Columbia study, about 15% of people tested positive for herpes simplex type 2 (HSV-2), which Herpes testing: when is it useful? ..........................................................................8 is the type of herpes most commonly thought of as genital herpes. Recently, HSV-1 has been showing up more and Herpes treatment: managing your symptoms ...................................................10 more on the genitals. Some people can have both types of What does herpes mean to you: receiving a new diagnosis ......................12 herpes. Most people have such minor symptoms that they don’t even know they have herpes. What does herpes mean to you: accepting your diagnosis ........................14 While herpes is very common, it also carries a lot of stigma. What does herpes mean to you: dating with herpes ....................................16 This stigma can lead to anxiety, fear and misinformation
    [Show full text]
  • Intracellular Lipid Droplet Accumulation Occurs Early Following Viral Infection and Is Required for an Efficient Interferon Response
    ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24632-5 OPEN Intracellular lipid droplet accumulation occurs early following viral infection and is required for an efficient interferon response E. A. Monson 1, K. M. Crosse1, M. Duan2, W. Chen 2,R.D.O’Shea 1, L. M. Wakim3, J. M. Carr 4, ✉ D. R. Whelan2 & K. J. Helbig 1 1234567890():,; Lipid droplets (LDs) are increasingly recognized as critical organelles in signalling events, transient protein sequestration and inter-organelle interactions. However, the role LDs play in antiviral innate immune pathways remains unknown. Here we demonstrate that induction of LDs occurs as early as 2 h post-viral infection, is transient and returns to basal levels by 72 h. This phenomenon occurs following viral infections, both in vitro and in vivo. Virally driven in vitro LD induction is type-I interferon (IFN) independent, and dependent on Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) engagement, offering an alternate mechanism of LD induction in comparison to our traditional understanding of their biogenesis. Additionally, LD induction corresponds with enhanced cellular type-I and -III IFN production in infected cells, with enhanced LD accumulation decreasing viral replication of both Herpes Simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) and Zika virus (ZIKV). Here, we demonstrate, that LDs play vital roles in facilitating the magnitude of the early antiviral immune response specifically through the enhanced modulation of IFN following viral infection, and control of viral replication. By identifying LDs as a critical signalling organelle, this data represents a paradigm shift in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms which coordinate an effective antiviral response.
    [Show full text]
  • Multiple Sclerosis
    What Really Causes Multiple Sclerosis HAROLD D. FOSTER i AUTHOR’S NOTE This book is written and published to provide information on multiple sclerosis. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher and author are not engaged in rendering legal, medical, or other professional services. In addition, this book is not to be used in the diagnosis of any medical condition. If “expert” assistance is desired or required, the services of a competent professional, especially one who is an expert in nutrition, should be sought. Every effort has been made to make this book as complete and accurate as possible. However, there may be mistakes both typographical and in content. Therefore, this text should be used as a general guide and not as the ultimate source of information. Factual matters can be checked by reading the cited literature. This book seeks to stimulate, educate, and entertain. The publisher and the author shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any entity or person with respect to any loss or damage caused, or alleged to be caused, directly or indirectly by the concepts or information contained in this book. Anyone not wishing to be bound by the above may return this volume for a refund of its purchase price. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The unusual cover of this book was designed, as were the other covers in this series, by Ken Josephson. It is based on the painting “Shattered Nerves” by Keith Loreth. My thanks go to both Ken and Keith for their creativity and generosity. I would also like to thank Dr. Abram Hoffer and Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • 65 Watching Television in Australia: a Story of Innocence and Experience
    Watching Television in Australia: A Story of Innocence and Experience Susan Bye School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry La Trobe University Abstract The excitement and naiveté of early viewers have become central to narratives of the Australian viewing past. These stories are of simpler times when the pleasure of watching television was unmediated by modern self-consciousness and cynicism. This popular way of ‘remembering’ television seems both natural and inevitable, but its role as a discursive strategy is highlighted by the alacrity with which TV columnists sought to bestow a sense of experience on fledgling Sydney viewers. In this paper, I focus on the way that the regular TV column worked to stitch readers into the daily business of television. Moreover, from the beginning of regular broadcasting, TV columnists challenged the idea that watching television was an identity- subsuming process and invited their readers to assume an active connection with television and its culture. Keywords: Audiences, Australian Television, Everyday Life, TV Columns Introduction The construction of television viewing history as progressive or developmental is not peculiar to the Australian context but, in the Australian situation, the popular association of early television with the fifties has allowed it and its audience to be collapsed into the ‘fifties story’. Imagined simultaneously as a time of innocence and a period of narrow-mindedness, the dominant narrative of Australia in the fifties involves a perception of a simple and insular people readily committing to family life in the suburbs (White 1983). This monochromatic understanding of suburban life in fifties Australia has effortlessly intersected with a similarly tidy conception of the relationship of early TV viewers to the new technology of television.
    [Show full text]
  • Appendix 1 Citations for Proposed New Precinct Heritage Overlays
    Southbank and Fishermans Bend Heritage Review Appendix 1 Citations for proposed new precinct heritage overlays © Biosis 2017 – Leaders in Ecology and Heritage Consulting 183 Southbank and Fishermans Bend Heritage Review A1.1 City Road industrial and warehouse precinct Place Name: City Road industrial and warehouse Heritage Overlay: HO precinct Address: City Road, Queens Bridge Street, Southbank Constructed: 1880s-1930s Heritage precinct overlay: Proposed Integrity: Good Heritage overlay(s): Proposed Condition: Good Proposed grading: Significant precinct Significance: Historic, Aesthetic, Social Thematic Victoria’s framework of historical 5.3 – Marketing and retailing, 5.2 – Developing a Context: themes manufacturing capacity City of Melbourne thematic 5.3 – Developing a large, city-based economy, 5.5 – Building a environmental history manufacturing industry History The south bank of the Yarra River developed as a shipping and commercial area from the 1840s, although only scattered buildings existed prior to the later 19th century. Queens Bridge Street (originally called Moray Street North, along with City Road, provided the main access into South and Port Melbourne from the city when the only bridges available for foot and wheel traffic were the Princes the Falls bridges. The Kearney map of 1855 shows land north of City Road (then Sandridge Road) as poorly-drained and avoided on account of its flood-prone nature. To the immediate south was Emerald Hill. The Port Melbourne railway crossed the river at The Falls and ran north of City Road. By the time of Commander Cox’s 1866 map, some industrial premises were located on the Yarra River bank and walking tracks connected them with the Sandridge Road and Emerald Hill.
    [Show full text]
  • Australian Multicultural Policy and Television Drama in Comparative Contexts
    Australian multicultural policy and television drama in comparative contexts Harvey May BA (Comm), BA, B Bus (Hons)(Comm), Post Grad Dip Ed A thesis submitted in 2003 for the award of Doctor of Philosophy Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology Key Words Multiculturalism, Cultural Diversity, Television, Drama, Casting, Minorities, Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, United States. Abstract This thesis examines changes which have occurred since the late 1980s and early 1990s with respect to the representation of cultural diversity on Australian popular drama programming. The thesis finds that a significant number of actors of diverse cultural and linguistic background have negotiated the television industry employment process to obtain acting roles in a lead capacity. The majority of these actors are from the second generation of immigrants, who increasingly make up a significant component of Australia’s multicultural population. The way in which these actors are portrayed on- screen has also shifted from one of a ‘performed’ ethnicity, to an ‘everyday’ portrayal. The thesis develops an analysis which connects the development and broad political support for multicultural policy as expressed in the National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia to the changes in both employment and representation practices in popular television programming in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The thesis addresses multicultural debates by arguing for a mainstreaming position. The thesis makes detailed comparison of cultural diversity and television in the jurisdictions of the United States, the United Kingdom and New Zealand to support the broad argument that cultural diversity policy measures produce observable outcomes in television programming.
    [Show full text]
  • In Gear Week 35 16 March 2020.Pub
    Serving the Community since 1985 In Gear 2018—2019 ROTARY CLUB OF BEAUMARIS WEEKLY BULLETIN Number 35 16 March 2020 President’s Report Next Meetings It has been a big week for the Club. With the induction of Alison and Keiron Letts we became a club of 53 (photos top right next page). THURSDAY 19 MARCH We now have three married couples in the Club. At the start of our NO MEETING meeting John Sime presented Konrad and THURSDAY 26 MARCH Mimi Emert, from NO MEETING Aphasia Victoria, with THURSDAY 2 APRIL an iPad. John had HOPEFULLY purchased it on behalf SPEAKER - LIZ TANZIMAT of the club, in re- NEW MEMBER TALK. sponse to their recent CHAIR: CHRIS MARA CASH DESK: TONY MCKENNA AND JULIE RIETH talk, where we learnt HOST: CHRIS WERNER how helpful Ipads are AV: KERRIE GEARD in dealing with Apha- sia (photo right) We then had an excellent and amusing talk from Peter Smith about his long life in broadcasting. Once again, we had over 50 attend the meeting. On Friday we had the formal handover of the $40,000 Cheque to Edward Tudor, the Executive Director of the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School with representatives of the Clubs involved and Alma Reynolds DGE there on behalf of the District (photos bottom of next page). The new girl’s alumni Boarding facility was most impres- sive as was the furniture we partly funded. Rotary was fulsomely thanked for this and earlier contributions to helping MITS operate. Sadly, we learnt that the 22 MITS students were all going home on Monday 16th March for an early holiday because of the coronavirus.
    [Show full text]