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FIFTIES
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EIGHTIES
NINETIES
2000 AND ON

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Nigel Felangue was a still photographer with TVW from 1959 to 1961.
It is most fortunate that Nigel collected much paraphernalia in those early days, otherwise the slides, photos and artwork presented on this page, and the image gallery that follows, would not exist. Much old material found its way into the rubbish bins, some discarded [...]

The origins of the TVW Channel 7 Newsroom
with Darcy Farrell – TVW’s first News Editor

Let’s start by referring to the technology. Ken has just given me this microphone to clip on, and if we go back to the use of the Auricon 16mm camera, in the first days at Channel Seven, [...]

Nigel Felangue
TVW Still photographer 1959-1961
I joined TVW-7 before the studio was completed, the staff at the time occupied part of a floor at Newspaper House in St Georges Tce. We put together motor racing docos from various oil co’s, which were sent to the tranmitter at Bickley for Trade Transmissions. Film cameramen Tom hall and [...]

Compiled by Richard Ashton
 
When it was announced that television would start in Western Australia there was much interest in the community, many people had seen television or had been told of it by friends living in Victoria and New South Wales. Because of the interest in the 1956 Olympics which the course was televised, and [...]

TVW VISION OF STATION DEVELOPMENTS AND CHANGES
Construction of TVW transmitter and studios, followed by the station opening.
Project Teleview is a TVW documentary, which tells how the station came about from license application, right through to the first transmission.

This TVW News production was scripted by Coralie Condon, presented by Geoff Walker, filmed by Tom Hall and [...]