NBN Television Newsnight, March 15, 1988 (BETACAM 3)

This Newsnight tape is part of the NBN Television archive and was digitised by our first UON Communication student Tom Sinclair who undertook a WIL (work integrated learning) practicum in the GLAMx Living Histories Digitisation Lab in September 2017. Many thanks to Phillip Lloyd and Barry Nancarrow (former NBN Television staff) who are digitising various forms of material from 1988, including BVU tapes, Index cards and listing items as they are appeared in the ‘Newsnight’ series footage. In total 28 taped stories from “Newsnight” current affairs and cued sheets were digitised and scanned.

Newsnight BETACAM 3 tape contains:

00:09 – 02:33 – Disabled Debutante Ball at Belmont 16s Club.
02:47 – 04:29 – Trio singing, “I am giving up Health Food today”
04:45 – 05:22 – Report on the Power Lines ELCOM.
05:36 – 06:10 – The Sale of the Renaud Property.
06:22 – 07:41 – Dr Summers who has his Clinics in Hunter Street and The Junction.
07:55 – 08:44 – A Patient who is upset about Police taking a Doctor’s medical Records.
08:58 – 09:37 – Patient talking about the delay in her Payment from Medicare.
09:52 – 10:57 – Patient talking about her interview with Medicare and her visit to the Doctors.
11:11 – 11:29 – Patient wants to know about confidentiality of the Medical Record.
11:40 – 12:02 – Patient unhappy with his Medical Records being taken by police.
12:15 – 12:49 – Filming the construction of the M1 Freeway.
13:01 – 13:33 – Filming of the land where the construction of a Resort is going.
13:45 – 14:01 – Patient talking about the Gestapo type raid on the Doctor’s Offices.
14:16 – 16:16 – Organist Simon Preston playing the Organ.

We also thank WIL students and volunteers for their contributions in digitising the NBN Television Archive.


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