"I think the ultimate of television will be that three or four people, no matter where they are in the world, will gather in the one room, in other words we'll have colour, stereoscopic sound, the equal of the natural voice, and it means that no matter where you are, you could probably arrange a conference of the world's leading figures in the one room and yet no man need leave his desk. Absolutely the ultimate of communications" - Mr Headley Bryant, an engineer with Amalgamated Wireless of Australasia - 1951
Mr D Barnett, a television technician, and Miss Wallace, Miss South Australia, with a television, photographed circa 9 March 1951 by an Evening Post photographer. Negatives of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: 114/267/05-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22553286
Advertisement for Philips 'Imagiphone' television telephone, photographed by K E Niven and Co of Wellington. Ref: 1/2-209745-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22902529
Fleetwood television, circa 1960s. Photograph taken by Gordon Burt. Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives. Ref: 1/2-036737-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22757379
Technicians at work in the service department of the television section at Philips Electrical Industries Ltd. November 1963. From the Canterbury Progress League Archives, Christchurch City Libraries Archive 72. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Kenyon Brand & Riggs, GEC television in livingroom, photographed by K E Niven of Wellington. 1968. Ref: 1/2-216350-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23039450
Tasman Electric’s Timaru showroom, circa 1970. Photo: South Canterbury Museum. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Television / Lighting display, Electricity Exhibition 1972. Photo: Horowhenua Historical Society Inc. (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ)
Alan Brehaut posed with a combined VCD and VHS player amongst shelves of other video players and television models in 1987. Photo: South Canterbury Museum. Timaru Herald Photographs, Personalities Collection. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Tisco (Television Installation and Service Company) technician. Photo: Upper Hutt City Library Heritage Collections. (CC BY-NC 3.0 NZ)
Alan Brehaut posed with a combined VCD and VHS player amongst shelves of other video players and television models in 1987. Photo: South Canterbury Museum. Timaru Herald Photographs, Personalities Collection. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
A portrait of Molly Aitchison, holding letters from TVNZ and The Broadcasting Standards Authority, dated 21 March 1995.Photo: South Canterbury Museum. Timaru Herald Photographs, Personalities Collection. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Eric Frykberg looks back at television's 50 year history in New Zealand and ahead to its future. Audio
Dr Geoff Lealand from Waikato University; Bill McCarthy, who hosted the TV coverage of the Christchurch Commonwealth Games, Hokitika retailer Tony Graham Archival audio supplied by Nga Taonga Sound &… Audio
Some favourite, ground breaking, evolutionary and revolutionary New Zealand television moments with NZ on Screen content manager Irene Gardiner. Audio
19 Feb 2012
As the debate over the future and quality of free-to-air TV, and the demise of TVNZ7 continues, Trisha Dunleavy assesses the New Zealand film and television industries, in terms of their creative and… Audio
Māori Television Launch 2004
Kenyon Brand & Riggs, GEC television in livingroom, photographed by K E Niven of Wellington. 1968. Ref: 1/2-216350-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
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