Edition 3
Community Reports
Community Report No 1 was an invitation to the community to share in the plans and projects of Turtle Video and to report on the activites of the centre as it approached the end of it's first year of operation. Produced in Feb/Mar 1975.

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Community Report No 2 includes transcripts of conversations by local videomakers - recording some of the everyday thinking and talking that goes on in a community media project. Produced in Dec 1975.

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Community Report No 3 contains twenty eight pages of photographs, videomakers stories and information on the activities of a very busy Western Communications. Now operating from a network of access points across the western suburbs including the newly established studio in Williamstown, this report documents some of the productions and projects underway at the time. Produced in Aug 1976.

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Access for the handicapped (1975)

In February 1975 Mac Gudgeon was introduced to a group of four men and four women with varying physical handicaps. Video was a whole new experience for them and working with the handicapped a new experience for Mac. This article first appeared in Access Video News in Nov 1975.

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An excerpt from Alan Dyalls diary

Alan Dyall has kept a diary all his life. In this excerpt, Alan writes of how he was first introduced to video making back in September 1974.

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Sony equipment catalogue

This twenty four page catalogue from the late 1970’s lists the extensive range of Sony’s portable and studio use videotape recorders, cameras, monitors, vision switchers, microphones, lenses, adaptors, cables, videotapes and more!

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“Editape” - Equipment Review

Open reel half inch videotape editing was difficult for many so the people at "City Video" in Sydney developed the Editape system to make it easier.

This article appeared in Access Video News in Dec 1975.

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