First live TV in NZ begins in Auckland

Shows a machine workshop where two men are working at lathes. One questions the other who has 'square eyes'. A calendar on the wall show the date June 2, the day after commercial television broadcasts began.

Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: A-310-078
Cartoonist: Lodge, Nevile Sidney
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Community contributions


Betty Brown
22 Aug 2012
I was a pupil at Queen Victoria Maori Girls School in 1951 and have a photograph of a group of us who performed for tv trials in Auckland (at the 1YA studio if I recall rightly).

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