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The Women Who Made Australian Television 5: Rosemary Eather

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

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Fan letter to Rosemary Eather

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

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Rosemary Eather at Sydney Observatory

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

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Regional TV in Australia

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

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The Weatherly sisters, Wardrobe Mistresses

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

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Working on The Never Never Land

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

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The Women Who Made Australian Television

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

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Filming Valley of the Sentinals

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

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Jean Battersby interview, 1992

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.

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Jean Battersby hosts Woman’s World

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