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In television live drama, production was equally divided between the Sydney and Melbourne studios and telerecordings interchanged. In all, 22 major productions were telecast, and it will be seen from the titles listed in Appendix 1,7 that we, have now reached the stage when much more ambitious and significant plays can be undertaken.
The climax to the year was the simultaneous production, in Sydney and Melbourne respectively, of Shakespeare's tragedies, "Hamlet" and "Antony and Cleopatra".
Plans have been made for the establishment, of an A.B.C. Television Writers' Workshop, which, it is believed, will lead to the foundation of a genuine Australian television drama. Writers of experience in other media are being invited to work in coltaboration with the A.B.C.'s officers from synopsis and story-tine to the finished script. In this way it is hoped that it will be possible to develop among writers a knowledge of television techniques and an, idea of what is practicable in the medium, a familiarity with the arrangement of television scripts, and an understanding of the devices and methods of effective television presentation.
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Newspaper piece on it
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| SMH 17 March 1960 |
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