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• Any recording of the broadcast of Dame Nellie Melba’s funeral procession. Melba’s death in
1931 was front-page news in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Europe, and we know that her
funeral procession was filmed and broadcast on radio. It is just possible that someone recorded
part of that broadcast.
• The Overlanders (Trevor Lucas, Reality Records, 1966). This early selection of Australian folk
music is very rare.
• Any recordings of extinct wildlife or lost soundscapes that are not already held in public
collections.
Television
• Most of Australian television’s output in the pre-videotape era between 1956 and 1960 when a
lot of programs were shot on film. Very little Australian TV material survives from this period.

new

products

(and developments)

From the SMPTE Journal June 1949

The Cine Speed Instant Film Processor which processes motion pictures
instantaneously and simultaneously during the photographing is a development of
J. A. Maurer Co. of Long Island City for Ciné Speed Inc., Roosevelt Raceway,
Westbury, L.I., N.Y., which sponsored the project for the past ten years and has
world-wide distribution rights for the processor. The object of the design project
was to find a process whereby film, feeding through the sprocket, could be
developed simultaneously as the photographing was going on. This process is
intended to serve the dual purpose of eliminating laboratory costs and of saving
valuable time in spot news photography. Presently available for 16mm, further
adjustments are being made to provide a 16mm and 35mm processor. The
processor can be purchased at an approximate price of $2250.
– Thanks to Peter Wolfenden for this contribution.