How about that strange early 70's flick "Walkabout"? I had such a crush on that chick in it. She's probably a huge cow now.

Anthony

Hi Sandy. If you're interested in finding out the words of the song again here's the webpage.

Most overused Aussie slang is "mate" (friend), "fair dinkum" (so true), "bloody oath" (so true), "arvo" (afternoon), "servos" (petrol/gas station), "shazza" (sharon), "footy" (AFL football), "bludger" (someone who's lazy), "slack" (someone who is real mean), "shonky/bodgy" (something that is faulty or job not done properly or describing mechanics and used car salesmen or fraudulant people who do dirty deals), "wanker" (a bastard or a stupid person who thinks they're the best), "smoko" (a food/cigarette break), "dacks" (underwear), "stubby shorts" (skimpy shorts worn by Aussie footballers, yobbos, truck drivers, joggers and Warwick Capper famous for his "Capper Shorts" :lmao: ) "G'day" (saying "good day" to someone when greeting them same as saying "hi/hello"), "dunny" (toilet/outhouse), "durry" (cigarrette) etc.......... But we never say "throw a shrimp on the barby" only Hoges says that :thmbsp: !

TV history docos are pretty rare given how important television is these days. Worse most documentaries tend to be country specific. US documentaires tend to cover the US and foregt the European developments and vice versa.

The BBC did a brilliant documentary for the 40 anniversary of television (1976).

At that time many of the early pioneers were still around and were interviewed about the early struggles to get the systems to work.

Of course the BBC began broadcasting in 1931 if memory serves correctly, using a 30 line Baird system ....like many US and European pioneers it was mechanical.

Baird had actually tried colour systems with multiple spinning disks.

Many of his staff that were still around in 1976 were interviewed in the documentary, as were those from EMI who worked on the 405 line system adopted by the BBC in 1936.

Strangely little coverage if any was given to colour systems.

For the 1986, 50th anniversary, the BBC produced a "docu-drama" "Fools on the Hill" about the race between Baird and EMI to produce TV for the 1936 Radio Olympia when the two systems were used alternatively to broadcast TV and to introduce it to the public.

I have this program on videotape. It lovingly recreates the early studios at the Alexandra Palace (Allie Pallie to Londoners).

Ultimately, of course, the EMI-Marconi system won out over the Baird-Farnsworth mechanical system (for fairly obvious reasons).

But in 1936 the Europeans were all about to begin broadcasting, mainly on 443/50 systems based on the EMI system (which was of course closely inter-related to RCA ...who were working on a 343/60 systm).

The big thing of course that was hidden from the public at the time was that all of the research work also fed into RADAR development.

The French, Germans and Italians all had plans for public television broadcasting to begin in the 1940s.

The Germans of course broadcast throughout the war ....until the tv tower in Berlin was destroyed. They broadcast mainly light entertainment to hospitals and the few senior Nazis that had sets.

They also broadcast in Paris during the occupation.

I do not know what if any colour television development was underway but the war would have certainly prevented any serious work.

Of course CBS was working throughout the early 40s on its field sequential system.

The BBC also did an excellent series called simply "Television" in the early 90s. But this primarily dealt with the impact of television on journalism, politics etc. but the first epsiode, entitled "The Race for Television", contains some fine newsreel and kinescope footage of early television.

:)

It is so. In the rare German tv history documentations, the main focus lie upon the prewar time and upon the development of the PAL system. In Walter Bruch's tv history (PAL - Das Farbfernsehen, published by the German broadcasting museum in 1987) there is an episode about that brave technician who try to adjust the blue bananas on the screen into yellow which his fellows have painted blue. Just this episode I know as an origin American episode of the history of NTSC development which has become now an urban legend. (Instead of hue adjustment, Bruch told about PAL burst controlling.)