Roundabout (1957 film)

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Roundabout
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Ad from 4 Jan 1957
Based onplay by Michael Clayton-Hutton
Written by William Sterling
Directed by Bill Eldridge
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time30 mins [1]
Production companyABC
Original release
NetworkABC
Release4 January 1957 (1957-01-04) [2]

Roundabout is a television movie, or rather a live television play, which aired on Australian television in 1957. Broadcast 4 January 1957 on ABC station ABV-2, it is notable as the first example of television drama produced in Melbourne. [3] [4]

Contents

It was made at a time when Australian drama production was rare. [5]

"Official" television broadcasting in the city had only begun two months earlier. There seems to have been a Melbourne production and a Sydney production, as happened with The Twelve Pound Look .

Plot

The original TV listing in The Age newspaper described the plot as "a woman's reactions to her husband's suspected affair with another woman". [6]

Melbourne cast

Production

The show is based on a 1952 one-act play by Michael Clayton-Hutton.

A Melbourne production was aired live on 4 January 1957 over 30 minutes. Production was by Bill Eldridge. [7] Filming took place at ABC's studios at Ripponlea. Star Patrick Horgan was appearing on stage at the time and had to get in a taxi to the theatre after filming. [8] Beverly Dunn went on to appear in a number of live TV productions. [9]

Sydney production

Roundabout
Based onplay by Michael Clayton-Hutton [10]
Directed by Raymond Menmuir
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production companyABC
Original release
NetworkABC
Release19 February 1957 (1957-02-19) [11]

A Sydney production was directed by Raymond Menmuir and aired February 19, 1957. [12] [13]

Cast

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "TV Guide". The Age. 3 January 1957. p. 20.
  2. ↑ "Advertising". The Argus (Melbourne) . Victoria, Australia. 4 January 1957. p. 18. Retrieved 11 May 2020– via Trove.
  3. ↑ "From School Plays to Success on TV". The Age. 19 September 1958. p. 20.
  4. ↑ "Gaslight on TV with Melbourne Cast". The Age. 2 January 1958. p. 8.
  5. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  6. ↑ "ABC Channel 2". The Age. 3 January 1957. p. 11.
  7. ↑ "TV Guide". The Age. 3 January 1957. p. 8.
  8. ↑ "Drama, Interviews "Live" on ABV-2". The Age. 3 January 1957. p. 15.
  9. ↑ Lane, Richard (2000). The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama Volume 2. National Film and Sound Archive. pp. 132–134.
  10. ↑ "TV—Channel 2 ABN". ABC Weekly. Vol. 19, no. 7. 16 February 1957. p. 31.
  11. ↑ "TV Guide". Sydey Morning Herald. 4 January 1957. p. 14.
  12. ↑ "TV—Channel 2 ABn". ABC Weekly. 19 February 1957. p. 39.
  13. ↑ "TV, Radio Programs". Sydney Morning Herald. 19 February 1957. p. 13.


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