Pictures in Motion Museum of Film and Television in Perth, Western Australia | Museum

Pictures in Motion Museum of Film and Television

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9496 2802

Address: Sunset Heritage Precinct, 80 Birdwood Parade, Dalkeith 6009 Perth, WA, Australia

Website: https://www.ammpt.asn.au

Likes: 155

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Arts and entertainment
• Museum
• Science museum

24.01.2022 Former TV Channel 7 Managing Director Kevin Campbell kindly pointed me towards this story about sister station HSV-7 in Melbourne. This was compiled by John Sym...ons, who was a Television and Film Producer and Director, Writer and many other things. John worked for HSV Channel 7 in Melbourne from 1960 till 1970. He was employed by Jim Fisher, the Chief Engineer, and started work as a boom operator, then after training in Telecine, Video Tape and Outside Broadcasts, he became an Audio Engineer. In 1970, John left the station to start his own film production studio with partner Ian Davey, where they produced television commercials for many major brands. His document on HSV is certainly a wonderful sample of what they were doing in the early years.

22.01.2022 Television (1939) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYQeSZ2LjvM

21.01.2022 Free Talk on the Science and History of Television - Monday 3rd August 2020 Tim O’Dea, the former Station Manager and Director of Engineering at TVW Channel Seven in Perth, gave a free talk on the evolution of television from its earliest days through to the present. This tracked the changing technology right up to our colour widescreen high definition screens of today.... There were many developmental hurdles along the way and now new challenges from internet streaming services, to make our viewing experience very much different from when television started in WA back on Friday 16th October, 1959. This presentation was conducted at the AH Bracks Library in Melville.

20.01.2022 A most informative talk was given last night by Richard Rennie, in which some enlightening aspects of early sound recording were demonstrated, as the Pictures in Motion inFocus meetings started up again after the Coronavirus shut-down. A most thorough exposé was also provided on the life and times of early inventor Stuart Booty.

20.01.2022 At tonight's inFocus meeting, we'll be presenting an 18 minute and 15 seconds short on the "The evolution of the movie trailer following the tea break.

16.01.2022 A most informative TV museum in the USA Run by the Early Television Foundation at 5396 Franklin Street, Hilliard, Ohio (a suburb northwest of Columbus). The Ear...ly Television Foundation is dedicated to the preservation of the technology from the early days of television. Their mission is to preserve and make available to the public the history of early television, from the mechanical systems of the 1920s through the introduction of colour television in the 1950s. Over 150 TV sets are on display in a 6000 square foot area. Displays include mechanical TVs from the 1920s and 30s; pre-1945 British sets from 1936-39; pre-1945 American sets from 1939-41; postwar sets from1945-58; and early colour sets from 1953-57. Many of these sets are working. The Dave Johnson collection of early television picture tubes is also on display, along with early TV studio equipment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqGaEM9sjVg

10.01.2022 Fondly recall Melbourne's HSV-7 Teletheatre on Johnson Street in Fitzroy, from where The Delo and Daly Show was broadcast from 1963 to 1964. It was hosted by American comedy duo Ken Delo and Jonathan Daly and included a mix of Australian and American performers. It was also a popular show on TVW Channel 7 in Perth.

10.01.2022 ABC busy scanning film archives to digitise programs. https://www.abc.net.au//boxing-kangaroos-rare-abc/12601346

09.01.2022 The award winning historian and former science teacher Richard Rennie will be giving another of his most informative and entertaining talks on a person of great... significance. This will be at the East Victoria Park RSL Hall, Fred Bell Parade, Bentley from 7 pm on Wednesday August 19th, 2020. Richard has this uncanny ability to unearth interesting people from the past who were ahead of their time. For not all Australian film and sound pioneers are household names these days, though in their time they were influential people who blazed a trail for the modern day entertainment pleasures we enjoy today. One such person was Stuart Booty (1890-1971) who pioneered many fields such as film-maker, inventor, electrical engineer, electrotherapist, radiologist and one who pioneered Australia's sound recording industry. Booty ran his business, Vitavox Records, for which he manufactured and sold Vitavox gramophones from 1926 to 1928. He also operated a recording studio where singers, choirs and musicians would come to make records from 1926 to 1963. He and his wife Edith also ran an Electro-therapy and X-ray business from their home. As well as producing the Australian made Vitavox gramophone, which exhibited superior sound quality, he was also an electrotherapist and radiologist, as well as inventing a movie camera. He started his career in 1911 making films at age 22, which he screened using a projector of his own manufacture. He moved to Sydney in 1922 to form one of Australia’s earliest record companies. Booty was an entrepreneur who had a passion for new technology and was seeking to make his fortune, but unfortunately he was competing against multinational companies that had the necessary financial backing to out compete him.

05.01.2022 At the London Cinema Museum

03.01.2022 London’s cinema museum Many consider a little known museum in south London a hidden gem. It's a treasure trove of memorabilia collected by a film fanatic from w...hen he was just 15 years-old. But the Grade 2 listed building now faces an uncertain future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGPpkOhIb0M See more

01.01.2022 What Television Was Like in 1939 The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is home to an extensive number of objects and images related to film and television history, including relics from the earliest days of TV. Television in the United States, made its very first public debut at the New York World's Fair in 1939.... The 1939 New York World's Fair was held at Flushing MeadowsCorona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was the second most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. The Smithsonian Institution, also known simply as the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and research centres administered by the government of the United States. It was founded on August 10, 1846, to preserve for the American people an enduring record of their past. They have more than 1.7 million objects in their collection and 22,000 linear feet of archival documents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj_Mcpff-Ks