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Good Evening and Welcome to Television - Bruce Gyngell
Title:
Good Evening and Welcome to Television - Bruce Gyngell
Year
1956
Courtesy
Nine Network
Bruce Gyngell's famous words, 'Good evening... and welcome to television', launched the new medium in Australia on 16 September 1956.
The opening line was actually not filmed on the night due to technical difficulties; the surviving footage presented here was recreated, reportedly the following year, for TCN9 Sydney’s first anniversary special.
Read more about the surviving footage of Australian television's opening night.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.