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