NFSA blog entries by Helen Tully

The NFSA congratulates the Australian Children’s Television Foundation on its 30th birthday, 16 March 2012.

TV acquisitions curator Helen Tully looks at the current and past state of Australian-produced television drama.

Broadcasting breaking news of the assassination of President John F Kennedy was a first for any Australian television network. The late Victorian broadcaster, journalist and author Michael Schildberger recognised early in his career the role that TV could play in reporting news and events as they unfolded, at a time when it took three to four days for the 16mm images of overseas events to arrive in Australia.