Picture Page (Australian TV series)

Picture Page
GenreNews magazine
Presented byValerie Cooney
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkABC Television
Release1956 (1956) –
1957 (1957)
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Picture Page was an early Australian television series which aired from 1956 to 1957 on ABC. It was hosted by Valerie Cooney.

The half-hour prime-time series was of a magazine format. In the 19 April 1957 episode, the program presented Donald McMichael, curator of shells in the Australian Museum, who showed shell specimens.[1] The 9 August 1957 edition featured Pat Spencer, a vocalist, along with "leading Sydney models".[2]

R. C. Packer in the magazine The Australian Women's Weekly gave the show a positive review, saying "it has an off-beat attractiveness".[3]

Aired live in Sydney, by some point in 1957 the series was aired in Melbourne via telerecordings,[4] also known as kinescope recordings. It is not known if any of these 16mm film recordings still exist.

  1. ^ "Friday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. Melbourne. 18 April 1957. p. 6. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Friday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. Melbourne. 8 August 1957. p. 6. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Television Parade". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 24, no. 31. Australia. 2 January 1957. p. 20. Retrieved 26 June 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Friday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. Melbourne. 1 August 1957. p. 6. Retrieved 13 May 2013.