Audio- Visual Reunion Plan
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, November 24. Four groups of parents will sit before a television camera to London at 6.30 a.m. next Friday to have a historymaking chat with their sons and daughters to Australia. They will talk for 15 minutes as though they were all to the same room. The meeting is a joint venture by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the. Aus-
tralian Broadcasting Commission. It will be the first direct , simultaneous television link- . up between Britain and Aus- ■ tralia and will be carried over ! the Early Bird n communications satellite. i Two of the families taking i part in the two-way chat in Australia are British immigrants, Mr Frank Vinton and ■ his family and Mr Alan Gil- ■ ham and his family.
It will be a “dress rehearsal” for a special Christinas link-up planned to take place in a fortnight in which a group of British migrants in Australia will speak to their families in England. Organisers say it may usher in a new episode in world communication, enabling people to make audio-visual meetings from anywhere in the globa
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31226, 25 November 1966, Page 13
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185Audio- Visual Reunion Plan Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31226, 25 November 1966, Page 13
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