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 26 tape contains:
Contents contain: (CAUTION- contains drug use)
00:10 – 05:17 – Interview with Ken Duncan, photographer who mostly takes pictures in panoramic format, started in photography as a teenager and helped to start/create the 1 hr minilab photo developing. His pictures that are sold worldwide and at times there are limited edition pictures and he also did an album cover for Midnight Oil’s “Diesel and Dust” which won an ARIA award. Dated: 01/02/1989
05:30 – 08:52 – Reporter John Church. Newcastle man, Bruce Saunders has created a business to meet the demand for the revived interest in Gramophones and gramophone records, cylinders and needles. Dated: 07/02/1989.
09:08 – 09:40 – Nightlife. Dated: 23/02/1989
09:52 – 10:07 – Nightlife 2. Dated: 23/02/1989
10:18 – 10:31 – Deer farm. Dated: 23/02/1989
10:43 – 11:02 – Deer Farm and abattoir 2. Dated: 23/02/1989
11:14 – 11:43 – Problems with the youth nightlife. Dated:23/2/1989
12:00 – 12:19 – Problems with youth nightlife 2. Dated:23/2/1989
12:30 – 13:16 – Inside a drug user’s house. Date: 27/2/1989
13:26 – 13:29 – Navy Ship. Dated: 27/2/1989
13:52 – 14:06 – Nora Head Lighthouse. Dated: 27/2/1989
14:22 – 14:54 – Filming of Navy vessels – Australian Warship Systems. Dated: 27/2/1989
15:05 – 15:37 – Shipbuilding – Forgacs at Tomago? (Location unknown). Dated: 27/2/1989
15:48 – 16:23 – Public Lecture (unknown location or people). Dated: 27/2/1989
16:34 – 17:52 – Reporter Laurie Oakes. Various Government Plans, feat. Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Treasurer Paul Keating. Dated: 27/2/1989
We also thank WIL students and volunteers for their contributions in digitising the NBN Television Archive.