Directing in Studio One, 1958

Orson Welles famously described a film studio as the best toy a boy could have. For the pioneers of Australian television in the late 1950s, their brand new television studios must have had the same allure. So many possibilities in this still fresh medium, and so many hopes that it could be a vehicle for social good.

For Denzil Howson, television was an opportunity to translate his 20 year experience in radio, theatre and film into this exciting new medium. As others have noted, he brought diverse skills and vitality to that role in which he immersed himself entirely during those seminal early years from 1956 to 1963.

He we see Denzil seated in the director’s chair in the control room of Studio One at GTV9.

Photos in this Gallery:

Directing in Studio One, 1958
Portrait During the GTV9 Era
Signing the Tarax Sponsorship Deal
Sorting Things at GTV9
Puppets on the Happy Show
Professor Nitwitty and Gerry Gee
Skin and Bones Jones on the Happy Show circa 1958
Professor Ratbaggy Congratulates Contest Winner
Gerry Hood on The Tarax Show, 1960
Portrait in Tweed Jacket
At School in the Tarax Show
Brigadier Brendan Fortescue, IMT 1963
In Character for Comedy
Barney Sludge, Cohns Cobber Member
Fertile Ground in Country TV
Technology in Country Television, 1964
Clowning at School, AMV4 1965
Christmas Specials at AMV4, 1964
Mr Hardwicke in “The Sullivans”