Dive into the personal collection of wildly popular TV presenter Rosemary Eather, now held by the NFSA.

Fan letter from Ross Crowe to Rosemary Eather, May 1969.

Rosemary Eather lecturing in astronomy to a group of children in the planetarium at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, March 1967. 

People living in regional areas on the east coast of Australia began receiving television for the first time in late 1961 and throughout 1962.

The Weatherly sisters, wardrobe mistresses, preparing Thelma Afford’s costumes on the opening night of national television, 5 November 1956.

In 1964 Kay Roberts directed The Never Never Land, a filmed version of the Elizabethan Theatre Trust’s Aboriginal Theatre, featuring 45 performers from the Tiwi I

This collection brings together stories of some of the women who contributed to Australian television production from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Director Marion Ord (crouching), 'continuity girl' Betty Barnett (standing) and camera operator Bob Feeney filming Valley of the Sentinels in Newnes, NSW, 1971.

Excerpt from an Australia Council for the Arts interview with Jean Battersby in 1992.

In this clip she explains how she came to work in television.

Jean Battersby was an early Melbourne compere of the ABC’s first daytime television program for women, Woman’s World.