Vic News – 1992
Sunraysia’s Local Television News in the past was a very professional affair. Here’s a few segments from a news bulletin broadcast a week before Easter in 1992, featuring news reader Caroline Davey and sports presenter Kim Shaw. A well known identity on Frames of History, Henry Tankard, is interviewed in one of the stories as […]
Mildura Baptist Church Opening
The congregation of the Mildura Baptist Church, opened their new building in Deakin Ave on the 18th of April 1953. Here’s some wonderful footage of that event supplied to us by the Beasy family.
Local TV Timeline
Continuing celebrations of sixty years of program from our local television station, here’s a short clip promoting production facilities at VIC TV captured around 1993-94, at a time where the local news service was an elaborate affair with very high production levels. Following is a timeline of STV8 history outlining the various changes in ownership […]
STV8 Memories
Having started my career at STV8, over the years I’ve collected a number of photos, film clips and other items that relate to the early days of the station. Here they are along with a few comments about each item to wrap up our celebration of the 60th anniversary of the opening of the station. […]
The Paddle Wheelers
There’s always a lot of interest in the Paddle-wheelers children’s show and yesterday was no exception, with questions asked as to the whereabouts of the program’s hosts. During our research for the STV 8 60th anniversary, we came across this Sunraysia Daily story on the micro fiche about the announcement of the first host for […]
Sixty Years of Television for Sunraysia
Sixty years ago today, Mildura’s STV8 was officially opened. To celebrate, Bruce McLean takes us back to the announcement of TV’s arrival, plus we see film footage that was prepared for the station’s opening presentation back on November 27th 1965. A big thanks to the Gowers family for allowing access to the original control rooms, […]
Psyche Bend Pumping Station
The Psyche Bend Pumping Station is a marvelous facility that joins the present to the past in Sunraysia. This film clip from 2009, outlines the enormous amount of work that was applied in order to bring the pump and plant back to original condition by the Sunraysia Steam Preservation Society. This is a remake of […]
Mallee Fowl Conservation
This conservation film focuses on the Mallee Fowl and the issues it faced in the year 2000. Created with the support of a number of interested groups, the film is narrated by Sunraysia’s well known personality Bruce McLean and is part of a collection of video media kept safe by the Mildura and District Historical […]
Desert Dreams
Desert Dreams is a film commissioned in 1988 by the Committee of Management for the Old Mildura Homestead, highlighting the successes of the Sunraysia area one hundred years after its founding. The legendary Bud Tingwell narrates the film, which tells the well known story of how the settlement began and showcases a time when the […]
Mildara Wines – Rio Vista Vintage
Mildara Wines commissioned this wonderful film on the Murray River, featuring Mildura and Sunraysia as well as Mildara Winery and it’s products. You’ll see some great shots of Mildura taken in the late 50’s early 60’s and a look around the winery at Merbein in this unique archival film.