VPRS-5061-P2-69-doc002267-Archival-Historical-Early-promos.mp4
Guaranteed to make you cringe! Three classic examples of excruciating 1960s Aussie culture. Graham Kennedy gives a pep-talk to SEC staff and management, celebrating their 50th Anniversary, exactly three weeks after the first(?) deaths due to bushfires sparked by power lines. How to deal with this crisis? Studiously ignore it, and show that other energy sources are not risk-free either: so Kennedy lampoons "the other mob" i.e. the Gas and Fuel Corporation, somehow in his mind linked to Esso-BHP's recent prior blowout at a gas rig in Bass Strait.
Behind the scenes of a Barry Humphries SEC promo (TVC) for air-conditioners may also cause the odd wince. Barry has mellowed a lot in subsequent decades... ;-)
The third is just 1960s sexism and appalling scripting all thrown into one horror classic.
All three were commissioned by the SEC, and despite GTV-9 being the production house of "Kennedy's Kinescope Kapers", it seems entirely reasonable to suppose copyright now rests with the Office of the Administrator.
This is a transcoded copy of a U-matic video cassette VPRS 5061/P2/69 "Document No. 002267 Archival - Historical - Early SEC Promos & TVCs Dame Edna, alias Barry Humphries and Graham Kennedy".
This unlisted copy hosted by YouTube is the "child" of a "parent" document http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php... published there with the permission of the Keeper of Public Records, Victoria. Copyright Office of the Administrator.
Media trail for the Graham Kennedy segment: Shot on B&W video tape at the TV studio: played back through a kinescope for transfer to 16mm B&W/opt. cine film. At SEC they performed telecine transfer to U-matic tape where it sat for 25 years. In 2011 the U-matic tape was dubbed to DVD, the DVD was ripped to .VOB then transcoded to MP4 (x.264/mp3 @ 768x576 pixels). Upon upload to Youtube it seems to have been transcoded yet again to a lower resolution MP4 (640x480)!! So what you see here is 6th generation transcoding :-( (DVD/.VOB is the same data)