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Shell Presents
''Shell Presents'' was an early attempt at Australian television drama, being an umbrella title for several different productions. It debuted on 4 April 1959, and aired on ATN, ATN-7 and GTV (Australia), GTV-9, who split production of plays for the series between them. It was an anthology series, each program being a self-contained play for television. The series won a Logie award in 1960 for ''TV Highlight of 1959''. As the title suggests, it was sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell, Shell. It was described as "a very big deal for the station: major institutional sponsorship from international companies for locally produced drama." It would be followed by ''The General Motors Hour''. Though it usually presented straight drama, it also presented a live musical production titled ''Pardon Miss Westcott'', set in colonial-era Australia. A total of 13 productions aired under the ''Shell Presents'' banner from 1959 to 1960. There is little information about this series online, however, som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Day (television)
"The Big Day" is an Australian television film, or rather a live television play, which aired in 1959. The fifth episode of the ''Shell Presents'' presentations of standalone television dramas, it originally aired 11 July 1959 on Melbourne station GTV-9, a video-tape was made of the broadcast and shown on Sydney station ATN-7 on 25 July 1959 (this was prior to the formation of the Nine Network and Seven Network). It was the first hour of drama made for commercial Australian TV which was written and produced by an Australian with an all Australian cast. It was called "a gentle study of an ordinary life." ''Shell Presents'' was a monthly series presenting locally produced television dramas and comedies. Most of these were adaptations of overseas dramas such as ''Johnny Belinda'' and ''One Bright Day'', but a few were locally-written. ''Filmink'' magazine called this "one of those naturalistic slice of life dramas that they liked to do on TV in the late ‘50s off the back of the su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Network Original Programming
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. How the numbers got to their Gupta form is open to considerable debate. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network Original Programming
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. 7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Evolution of the Arabic digit For early Brahmi numerals, 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austlit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature) is a national bio-bibliographical database of Australian literature. It is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, housed at The University of Queensland (UQ). The AustLit database comprises biographical and bibliographical records of Australian storytelling and print cultures, with over 1 million individual 'work' records, and over 75 discrete research projects. One such project, BlackWords, is a dataset within AustLit detailing the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. History Groups of researchers across eight universities (UNSW @ ADFA, The University of Queensland, Monash University, Flinders University, Deakin, the University of Western Australia, the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Television Plays Broadcast On ATN-7
The following is a list of television plays broadcast on Australian broadcaster ATN-7 during the 1950s and 1960s. *'' The House on the Corner'' (1957) - TV series *''Autumn Affair'' (1958) - TV series *'' The Big Day'' - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *'' No Picnic Tomorrow'' - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *'' Man in a Blue Vase'' - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *'' Johnny Belinda'' (1959) - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *'' Children of the Sun'' (1959) - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *'' Other People's Houses'' (1959) - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *'' A Tongue of Silver'' (1959) - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *'' Pardon Miss Westcott'' (1959) - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *'' Big Blue and Beautiful'' (1960) - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *''Reflections in Dark Glasses'' (1960) - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *'' Thunder of Silence'' (1960) - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *'' Tragedy in a Temporary Town'' (1960) - episode of ''Shell Presents'' *'' Shadow of a Pale Horse'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killer In Close-Up
''Killer in Close-Up'' was a blanket title covering four live television drama plays produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1957 and 1958. It could be seen as the first anthology series produced for Australian television. Production of the plays was split equally between the Melbourne and Sydney ABC stations, with the first and fourth being produced in Sydney, the second and third in Melbourne. Each ran for 25 minutes. The plays were produced by Christopher Muir, Raymond Menmuir and Will Sterling. The title came from the use of the close up in television drama. The drama plays were based on real-life cases, dramatised for television by George F. Kerr. They were, in order: * “The Robert Wood Trial” (4/9/57) * “The Wallace Case” (20/11/57) * “The Rattenbury Case” (18/6/58) * “The Trial Of Madeleine Smith” (13/8/58) In Melbourne, the play aired against ''Chesebrough-Ponds Playhouse'' on HSV-7 (which consisted selections from US anthology series) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Live Television Plays Broadcast On Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s)
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man In A Blue Vase
"Man in a Blue Vase" is an Australian television one-off comedy presentation which aired in 1960. It was part of ''Shell Presents'', which consisted of monthly presentations of standalone television dramas and comedies. It aired on 19 March 1960 on GTV-9 in Melbourne and on 5 March 1960 on ATN-7 in Sydney, as this was prior to the creation of the Seven Network and Nine Network. A set of pictures from the show appear in a 1960 edition of ''The Age'' Unlike most of the ''Shell Presents'' presentations, it wasn't aired live. Although produced in Melbourne, it aired in Sydney first. Plot Set in a Polish-Jewish household in Melbourne. Aaron tries to prove his individuality by taking money from his wife Shirley's blue vase. Sister in law Esther tells Shirley that marriage is a state of war and she needs to take a stand. Aaron goes drinking and asks his brother in law Herman why he lets Esther bully him. Shirley gets advice from her mother in law, Reba. Cast *Alan Hopgood as Aaron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reflections In Dark Glasses
"Reflections in Dark Glasses" is an Australian television film, or rather a television play, which aired in 1960. It aired as part of '' Shell Presents'', which consisted of monthly presentations of stand-alone television dramas. It was written by Sydney writer James Workman, and is notable as an early example of Australian-written television drama. It was broadcast live in Sydney on 6 February 1960, then recorded and shown in Melbourne. Unlike some Australian television of the early 1960s, the program still exists, as a kinescope recording held by the National Film and Sound Archive. The program was much acclaimed. ''Filmink'' called it "a minor gem... visceral, dark, intense – and extremely moving. (It also has the best poster art from any Australian TV play I’m familiar with – kudos to that designer, whoever she or he was.)". Plot A disturbed woman keeps searching for her young son. She tries to pick him up at school, but he isn't there. She insists that her husband too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Picnic Tomorrow
"No Picnic Tomorrow" is an Australian television drama one-off which aired in 1960 on ATN-7 in Sydney and GTV-9 in Melbourne (as this was prior to the creation of the Seven Network and Nine Network). Part of the ''Shell Presents'' series of one-off television dramas and comedies, it was produced in Melbourne, but first shown in Sydney on 9 January 1960, and on 23 January 1960 Melbourne. Plot An Australian woman, Gwennie, and a man of Greek descent, Tony, intend to marry. However Tony's mother decides to arrange a marriage between him and a Greek woman who is coming to Australia. Cast *Margaret Browne as Gwennie * Robin Ramsay as Tony *Peter Aanensen as Mr Sweeney *Marjorie Archibald as Mrs Sweeney *Nina Black as Mrs Demetrius *Carol Armstrong as Greek girl *Bruce Archer Production The drama was written by Barbara Vernon, best known at the time for writing the play ''The Multi-Coloured Umbrella'' (adapted for television in 1958), and who had previously written the ABC TV comedy on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rope (1959 Film)
"Rope" is a 1959 Australian TV play based on the play by Patrick Hamilton. It was part of ''Shell Presents''. It aired on 31 October 1959 in Melbourne, and a tapped version aired on 15 November 1959 in Sydney. The play ''Rope'' had been filmed for Australian television by the ABC in 1957. It was one of several Patrick Hamilton adaptations done on Australian television. (Murder mysteries were popular on Australian television at the time.) It was also arguably one of the first depictions of queer characters on Australian television. Plot Two friends, Charles and Wyndham, murder someone for fun. Cast * John Glennon as Wyndham Brandon *Paul Karo as Charles Granillo *Walter Sullivan as Rupert *Feli Wittman as Simone *Tom Farley *Graeme Jones *Muriel Hearne Production The play was adapted by American actor-playwright John Glennon who also played one of the lead roles. According to ''Filmink'' "Glennon is one of a number of people who came down under in the late ‘50s and early ‘6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
