50 Years of New Zealand Television: 1 - From One Channel to One Hundred
2010 Television
- Documentary
- Arts/Culture
- NZ History
The opening episode of the Prime TV series celebrating 50 years of New Zealand television travels from an opening night puppet show in 1960, through to Outrageous Fortune five decades later. It traverses the medium's development and its major turning points (including the rise of programme-making and news, networking, colour and the arrival of TV3, Prime, NZ On Air, Sky and Māori Television). Many of the major players are interviewed. The changing nature of the NZ living room — always with the telly in pride of place as modern hearth — is a story within the story.
Key Cast & Crew
GM
Glen Molesworth
Editor
AL
Andrew Lovrin
Sound
Related images
Setting up for an outside broadcast: this shot was likely taken during the 1977 season of Top Town.
Supplied by Michael Kemp
An NZBC outside broadcast crew at work, in the early days of New Zealand television.
Supplied by Michael Kemp
Capturing a forgotten television drama during the early days of Kiwi television. From left, Bruce Anderson is behind the camera, and David Thomas stands holding the microphone boom. Tony Clareburt is standing in dark clothes on the right.
Supplied by Michael Kemp
