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TAGGED: role of women
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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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Joyce Belfrage oral history interview, 2001

Excerpt from an oral history interview with Joyce Belfrage by Graham Shirley, 2001. 

English-born Belfrage arrived at the ABC in 1958 as its first female Talks producer.

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Jen Ward oral history interview, 2018

Women were finally employed as full-time television camera assistants from the late 1970s.

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Thelma Afford costumes

Left: Joan Lord as Lady Sims wearing Thelma Afford’s costume design for The Twelve Pound Look, the television play broadcast on the ABC’s first night of television in November 1956.

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Script assistant Ruth Page

ABC producer Alan Burke and script assistant Ruth Page, who worked on the ABC’s opening night of television in November 1956. 

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Kay Roberts oral history interview, 1998

In this excerpt from her oral history interview, director Kay Roberts talks about performing multiple roles at Atransa Park Studios, including continuity, 'script girl' and casting, and her excitem

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Babette Smith: 'An assumption that women were lesser'

In this clip from an oral history interview with Jeannine Baker, Babette Smith reflects on typical gendered roles in television in the 1970s, and the barriers to women advancing to decision-making

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Babette Smith: The challenges of live TV

Babette Smith had worked at the Elizabethan Theatre Trust and for theatrical producer Harry M Miller on rock musical Hair, before starting at TCN9 Sydney in 1973 as an assistant producer o

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Babette Smith Oral History interview, 2018

Babette Smith had worked at the Elizabethan Theatre Trust and for theatrical producer Harry M Miller on rock musical Hair, before starting at TCN9 Sydney in 1973 as an assistant producer o