'Seven Nightly News' bulletin - 15th August 1945

[dthibds]

lol what a bunch of slackjawed phaggots u mad brah

[HomleandSecurity]

Japanese niggers pwnd

[samson123321681]

great news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MaccasWell]

Using Ross Symonds was a master stroke as he had not only the right look of a wartime news anchor (If television was around during the war, instead of the news reels), as well as the right voice for it as well. And when he read the report, he read it in the measured manner that all news reel reporters delivered their news reel reports.

[bellimbopinni]

Wow, this puts things into perspective. It would be good if this was a series.

[altfactor]

This is a "You Are There"-type presentation.

Here in the 'States, "You Are There" (which ran in the mid 1950's and was revived in the 1970's) was a CBS-TV series that dramatized historical events as if they were live TV news events.

"You Are There" probably inspired Seven News Australia to do this presentation.

[BoldBenHall]

Yes of course, Australians are incapable of independent or original thought. Lucky we have great American shows like "The Office" and "Life on Mars" to inspire us.

[kyla100896]

i like pie

[rileykernaghan]

When was this done? I thought TV only came to Australia in the 1956 or something.

[tomchristmas]

Read between the lines - read the comments and the clip's description...

[Guysweeting]

So young and old are as discerning as you eh!

[tomchristmas]

Age is not a function of stupidity. There are so many clues in the clip and in the description to suggest that it's a mock-up. Thing is, a lot of people don't even bother to read the description...

[mur38]

Not forgetting that Australian television broadcasting didn't begin until 1956.

[Guysweeting]

It should be made clear on this video for young adults watching it, its not a real tv news bulletin only a mock up done presumably in the early 90's. Still a good job of it. Having worked with Ross Symonds I know he hasn't been round for quite that long! If only the news from 1945 was done like that and not announcers shouting in a fake pommie accent with over dramatised violins is was more likely to have been the case back then in the news reel days.

[tomchristmas]

I would like to think that adults - young and old - of at least average intelligence would be able to discern fact from fiction and therefore be able to come to the same conclusion that you have. So I don't think any form of clarification would be necessary.

It was good that, at some point, Australian newsreaders dropped the pretence of affecting a British accent, in order to give them an air of authority and legitimacy. Seems all the more alien these days, watching the old reels and reports.

[Guysweeting]

Not everyone is as discerning as you think. Just read Riley's comment.

[tomchristmas]

By saying "of least average intelligence", I've explicitly excluded 'simple people' from the list of those who can see the clip for what it is.

The clip's title and commentary stays as it is.

[animelubbor432]

@tomchristmas you guys had TV BACK THEN?????

[gavlaing]

the seven logo during the sport section was a dead give away

[lijman]

Berlin hosted the 1936 Olympics, not Munich. Munich hosted the 1972 games.

[tomchristmas]

Nicely observed :)

[Davez621]

TV was well and truly around in 1945 in the US.

[tomchristmas]

Yes, but not in Australia for another 11 years. Ironically, it was World War II that pretty much prevented us from getting TV services until 1956. The government of the thirties here were planning to start up a service in the forties, but in the end, they had to direct a lot of their funds towards the war effort, rather than something as "frivolous" as television.

[Davez621]

So how is it that the UK had TV so much earlier than we did? They were hit by WW2 much worse than we were.

[tomchristmas]

Because they're the UK :P

...in any case, it wasn't exactly "the UK" - it was just the BBC providing a service to just London starting in 1936 - three years before WWII...and they were off the air during WWII, so...

[anchorman87]

why did they make this?

[tomchristmas]

They just wanted to have a bit of fun in re-creating what a news bulletin from that particular day in 1945 would look like. It aired during the coverage of a large street parade in Sydney commemorating 'Victory in the Pacific' fifty years prior, as part of a series of other short, related segments about the war.

[AntonioAzz]

Nice video, but Seven did't exist in 1945, so this was a production made in the 90's just giving it a traditional feel, there was NEVER a ROSS SYMONDS at ATN Sydney intil 1983

[tomchristmas]

Really!? Did not know that :P

[bigdan1985]

Nice concept from Seven, although they probably should not have used modern graphics during the story. :P

[tomchristmas]

...but that's splitting hairs, don't you think? :P

[bigdan1985]

Possibly...