Category: NBN Television Archives

News and information relating to the digitisation of the archive of NBN Television Newcastle. Includes 16mm film, betacam tapes, scripts, tapes and photographs. Please note: All digitisation of the NBN Television Archive will cease on 1 June 2021.

Dwelling, Shortland Site circa May 1963 (2400dpi scan of original 16mm NBN Television Film Courtesy Mark Rigby UON GLAMx Lab)

Historic Film Emerges of Aboriginal People and Dwellings on Shortland Site, 1963

March 23, 2023

This work is conducted in memory and respectfully honours the First Australian People, the Aboriginal People of this land. Warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: This post contains images and references to people who are deceased. The NBN Television News Reel After sixty years, historic film has emerged of Aboriginal people living in … More Historic Film Emerges of Aboriginal People and Dwellings on Shortland Site, 1963

History Week 2022 event – From Analogue to digital – ‘Hands On’ audio-visual formats

August 12, 2022

From Analogue to digital – ‘Hands On’ audio-visual formats History Week 2022: Hands-on History 3 – 11 September 2022 | #HistoryWeek2022 PRESENTATION available HERE About this online event Join the Hunter Living Histories online showcase where the Special Collections and GLAMx team at the University of Newcastle Library discuss their audio-visual digitisation projects spanning the … More History Week 2022 event – From Analogue to digital – ‘Hands On’ audio-visual formats

Super digitisers save four decades of Hunter regional news television from oblivion

August 31, 2021

A selection of digitised resources from the NBN Television Archive are available to VIEW HERE on Living Histories A crack team of super volunteer audio visual digitisers from the University of Newcastle’s GLAMx Lab in the Auchmuty Library have managed to safeguard approximately four decades of local Hunter Regional news stories and programmes dating the … More Super digitisers save four decades of Hunter regional news television from oblivion

Revitalisation of Indigenous Culture & Knowledge Project – review of AV footage 1980s

December 16, 2020

We acknowledge and pay our respects to the traditional Aboriginal owners of the lands on which our compuses are located, as well as other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations from which our students, staff and community are drawn. Project Description and Context The University archives already has a substantial listing of sources relating to … More Revitalisation of Indigenous Culture & Knowledge Project – review of AV footage 1980s

Interview with Pilot Officer Ronald (Ron) Slater

July 17, 2020

  Interview with former Pilot Officer Ronald (Ron) Slater who talks about events of 12th November 1963 when he was piloting a Royal Australian Air Force Sabre fight jet (RAAF serial number: A94 – 929) in a formation of eight aircraft from RAAF Williamtown’s No.2 Operational Conversion Unit (2OCU), his aircraft entered a spin. Ron … More Interview with Pilot Officer Ronald (Ron) Slater

“Stories of Our Town” Newcastle Documentary Series – progressing well

June 11, 2020

  By Glenn Dormand Visit storiesofourtown.com   Making the Stories of Our Town series constantly takes Tony Whittaker and I to cool places to meet passionate people. Thursday afternoon 4 June 2020 was one of those days, meeting some of those people. We spent the whole afternoon in the Australian Museum’s archive with Vanessa Finney, … More “Stories of Our Town” Newcastle Documentary Series – progressing well

The Kinks in Newcastle

October 17, 2019

In 1965, the Century Theatre in Newcastle hosted ‘The Big Show’. The lineup included major british artists of the time, such as the Honeycombs, Tony Sheveton, Manfred Mann and The Kinks. The footgage below, found in the NBN archives and digitalised by the GLAMx Lab, shows some of these artists firstly, catching the Koondooloo, one … More The Kinks in Newcastle

CMNS2035 Media Student Television Productions – 2019

June 14, 2019

During semester 1 of 2019, University of Newcastle’s CMNS2035 Media Production: Television, Students spent some time in the GLAMx Lab viewing historic footage from the NBN Television archive. Students were tasked with assisting with the archival process of viewing digitised old NBN Television footage and capturing ‘metadata’ associated with the historic footage held at the … More CMNS2035 Media Student Television Productions – 2019