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TV Week Award, 1959
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Title:
TV Week Award, 1959
NFSA ID
435413
Year
1959
Model and TV presenter Panda Lisner was awarded Best Female Personality at the first ever TV Week Awards in 1959. A year later, the awards show was renamed ‘The Logies’ by Graham Kennedy in honour of John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor of the television. This statuette from the NFSA's collection shows how the award has barely changed in 60 years.
Panda was best-known as a ‘barrel girl’ on In Melbourne Tonight. Once a popular and high-profile contributor to the success of competition draws and game shows, the barrel girl’s role was to draw winner’s names at random from a barrel or to spin a prize wheel. In the 21st century they have become as rare on TV as, well, barrels.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.