The video describes the history of Bowen (North Queensland) and focusses on the first 10 years of European settlement.
The video is 35 m 46 secs long.
Credits:
Narrated by Don Roderick
Camera by Geoff Stock
Directed by John Ormsby
Produced by Don Roderick in association with North Queensland Television.
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The video was in a private collection (Roderick family) and Jane Carstens
(nee Roderick, daughter of Don Roderick) arranged for the original analogue source to be converted to a digital format. Sarah Carstens edited the videos.
The video was made and shown on TNQ 7 (Television North Queensland Channel 7, Townsville) around 1976.
That was a period when there was renewed interest in Australian history and TNQ 7 was a regional TV station that produced local content.
There were three 1 hour shows made:
(i) Charters Towers and it's Stock Exchange (~ 1972-1973)
(ii) Ravenswood (~ 1975)
(iii) Bowen (~ 1976)
The Roderick family have copies of the Charters Towers and Bowen TV programs but not the Ravenswood one.
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NOTES: In February 2022, a google search found a Goeff Stock who is a freelance cameraman in Brisbane, Queensland.
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Compiled by Michael L. Roderick (son of Don Roderick), 23/02/2022