TAGGED: 1960s
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A popular activity for train enthusiasts even today is the train chase: travelling from one vantage point to another while follow

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Jim Powe has captured a lovely and colourful image on 16mm of 3830 pulling into Picton station

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Jim Powe shot this candid silent black-and-white 16mm film footage on a Rail Transport Museum

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Before C-Day was even on the horizon, Australian TV’s biggest stars were already experimenting with colour – some more successfully than others.

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Amy Butterfield considers the wave of high-profile crimes in the 1960s that led commentators to proclaim that Australia had 'lost its innocence'.

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Program special narrated by Brian Henderson and produced using the libraries of TCN9 and GTV9 to mark ten years of telecasting in Sydney and Melbourne.

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The radio becomes portable, and a kind of mania – Beatlemania – grips the nation as the popularity and powers of DJs and presenters grow, and audiences find a connection in the once-illegal talkback radio.

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Radio station 2SM – at the beginning of their ratings dominance of the Sydney pop music radio audience 

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Just after midnight on 17 April 1967, 2UE announcer Ormsby Wilkins created Australian radio history, reportedly being the first to receive callers live to air.

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Two-in-one, portable unit that combines an AM radio above with a four-speed turntable, revealed when the front cover underneath the tuner is lowered.