Prue Bavin, OB van crew training exercise

Four men and a woman sit inside an outside broadcast van. There are dials, cords and switches all around them.

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Title:

Prue Bavin, OB van crew training exercise

Year

1956

Courtesy

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Library Sales

Summary

Script assistant Prue Bavin with (L-R): Gordon Waterhouse, Lloyd Berndt, Ken Middleton and Mungo MacCallum inside an OB (Outside Broadcast) van during a training exercise for the launch of the national television service, 1956.

early Australian television

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