Today's News is tomorrow's history and the television newsrooms are prolific documenters of what takes place each day, recording events and conveying them to the public.
The news camera folk are capturing not only events of the period, but also creating time-capsule elements with each story reported. That's if their record is kept by News Departments who value the historic significance of their material.
This video is a compilation of news bulletin video taken in the early 1970's by cameramen at TVW Channel Seven in Perth.
The News Editor at the time was the legendary Darcy Farrell, who set up the first television newsroom in Western Australia.
TVW News cameramen during this era included Peter Goodall, Michael Goodall, Lu Belci, Bryan Dunne, Tom Hall, Don Hanran-Smith, Gordon McColl, Alex McPhee, Bill Meacham, Brad Pearce, Steve Thompson, Stan Jeffery and Matt Williams.
All footage shown here was shot on 16mm black and white film, as it was the age before electronic news gathering (ENG).
This video contains vision of happenings occurring in Perth during the early 1970's.
