MS 7702
Papers of Adrian Jose (1908-1991)



Scope and Content Note

  • Papers
  • MS 7702
  • 1917-1988
  • 5.75 m. (34 boxes + 3 cartons)
  • Access conditions: Series 7 and other folders as marked closed to 1 January 2022

Presenter and administrator, Adrian Jose began his long career in Australian broadcasting as a radio announcer-in-training with the Australian Broadcasting Company in 1930. He held a number of management positions in Queensland and New South Wales branches of the Australian Broadcasting Commission before his 1949 appointment as Director of Programme Services at the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, a post from which he retired in 1971.

The collection of his papers, which comprises correspondence, reports, minutes, cuttings and associated files, was donated to the National Library in two consignments: a small carton of radio talks and written reports from Jose in 1989, followed by a larger instalment of 18 boxes from his daughter in 1991. The University of New England historian Ross Lamont undertook a preliminary sort of the latter consignment before its transfer to the Library.

Together the instalments extend back to 1917 and provide some coverage of most phases of Jose’s career. The major portion of the collection, however, documents Jose’s responsibilities at the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, and activities under his compass such as educational and religious broadcasting, children’s television and Australian content in programming. Also of interest is a large sequence of minutes and papers of the Television Society of Australia and Educational Television Association of Australia, of which Jose was a member and executive member for many years.

In addition to papers held in the Manuscript Collection, a recording of a talk ‘The First Year of Television’ presented by Jose to the Television Society of Australia in 1957 is located in the Oral History Collection at ORAL TRC 2449.

A small collection of Jose’s papers is also housed in the University of Melbourne Archives.


Biographical Note

1908

Born Denis Adrian Arthur Jose, 3 May, son of historian Arthur Jose

1921-25

Educated Sydney Church of England Grammar School

1926

Editorial assistant for The Australian Encyclopaedia

1926-30

Clerk in Intelligence and Publicity Branch, Australian High Commission, London

1930

Joined Australian Broadcasting Company in September as record library assistant and announcer-in-training, 2BL and 2FC, Newcastle

1930

Appointed regional officer at 2NC Newcastle in December

1930-34

Senior announcer, 4QG Brisbane

1934-41

Queensland Programming Director, Australian Broadcasting Commission

1934

Married Constance Archdall, 7 December

1938-49

Held various offices in the Australian Broadcasting Commission Staff Association, including President (1943) and Staff Advocate at 1948 hearing on classifications and salaries

1941

Acting Programme Controller, New South Wales

1942

Acting Federal Programme Executive, Sydney

1944-46

Acting Queensland Manager, Australian Broadcasting Commission

1946-49

Federal Programming Coordinator, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Melbourne

1948

Secretary, ABC Senior Officers Association

1949-71

Director, Programme Services Division, Australian Broadcasting Control Board, Sydney

1955

Joined the Television Society of Australia, and later the Society’s offshoot the Educational Television Association of Australia

1956-72

Advisory Committee on Children’s Television Programmes

1959-69

Attended meetings of Advisory Committee on Religious Television Programmes

1959-70

Member Australian UNESCO Committee for Mass Communication

1960-65

Council Member of Television Society of Australia

1962

Official overseas visit for Australian Broadcasting Control Board of United Kingdom, France, USA and Canada

1963-64

Member Interdepartmental Committee on Television Film Production; Senate Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television

1964

Although not a Committee member, attended meetings of the Advisory Committee on Educational Television Services and prepared its official report

c. 1965

Member of the Radio Survey Standards Committee appointed by the Council for Advertising Research in Australia

1967

Official overseas visit for Australian Broadcasting Control Board of United States, Britain and Japan

1974-78

Council Member of Television Society of Australia

1978

Made Honorary Member, Television Society of Australia

1991

Died in Melbourne


Series List

1.

Personal and official correspondence, 1928-87

2.

Intelligence and Publicity Branch, Australian High Commission, London, 1927-30

3.

Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1930-49

4.

Australian Broadcasting Commission Staff Association, 1939-51

5.

Director, Programme Services Division, Australian Broadcasting Control Board, 1949-74

6.

Political Broadcasts (Federal Elections) Order and related files, 1949-50, 1969

7.

Television Society of Australia and Educational Television Association of Australia, 1954-86

8.

Advisory Committee on Children’s Television Programmes, 1956-72

9.

Advisory Committee on Religious Television Programmes and related files, 1944-70

10.

Interdepartmental Committee on Television Film Production and related files, 1950-69

11.

Senate Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television and related files, 1951-88

12.

Advisory Committee on Educational Television Services and related files, 1963-70

13.

Independent Television Authority, Great Britain, 1962-70

14.

Personal papers, 1917-88

15.

Speeches, 1957-69

16.

Newspaper clippings, 1927-86

17.

Publications, c. 1930-75


Series Description

Series 1 Personal and official correspondence, 1928-87

Personal and official correspondence gathered by Jose is brought together in this series, including a short sequence of letter files relating to his position at the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. Correspondents include ABC Chairman Richard Boyer, Commonwealth Public Service Board Chairman Sir Frederick Wheeler, Australian and overseas broadcasting colleagues, and representatives of the Christian Television Association and other religious and general broadcasting groups.

Two photos of historical interest taken in the early days of 2NA and 2NC Newcastle are contained in Folder 3.

Folders

1

Early personal correspondence, 1928-37, chiefly relating to employment matters

2

Congratulations and condolences, 1936-66

3

Personal miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1944-45, including letter from Richard Boyer and photos relating to 2NA and 2NC Newcastle

4

Personal correspondence, 1948-87 [Closed to 1 January 2022]

5

Personal correspondence, 1966-67 [Closed to 1 January 2022]

6

Australian Broadcasting Control Board miscellaneous correspondence, 1946-71 [Closed to 1 January 2022]

7

Australian Broadcasting Control Board miscellaneous correspondence, 1960-66 [Closed to 1 January 2022]

8

Correspondence received on retirement from Australian Broadcasting Control Board, 1971, including letter from Sir Frederick Wheeler


Series 2 Intelligence and Publicity Branch, Australian High Commission, London, 1927-30

In 1926 Jose sailed to London where he took up a position as a clerk in the Intelligence and Publicity Branch of the Australian High Commission. There his duties included filing and indexing of publications and correspondence, research and the contribution of an annual article on the Australian economy for The Economist Commercial History and Review.

Folders

1

Australia House personal file, 1927-30, including some correspondence

2

Articles for The Economist Commercial History and Review, 1927-30

3

Accounts and receipts relating to London flat, 1927-28


Series 3 Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1930-49

On return to Australia in 1930, Jose joined the staff of the then Australian Broadcasting Company, Sydney, with promotions quickly following to 2NC Newcastle and 4QG Brisbane. He then occupied a number of senior management positions in Queensland and New South Wales branches of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, before his appointment to Melbourne as Federal Programming Coordinator in 1946.

Included here are papers documenting the various aspects of Jose’s early broadcasting career, both as announcer and administrator, including minutes of meetings and material relating to other management matters. Also represented are historical notes about 2NC Newcastle, items on political broadcasting, and the 1948 report of the Fitzgerald Committee into the administrative and financial organisation of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Two photographs taken in the early days of 2NA and 2NC Newcastle are located in Series 1, a souvenir booklet documenting the first five years of 4QG and a copy of the Australian Broadcasting Company Year Book 1930 in Series 17.

Folders

1-3

Australian Broadcasting Commission staff file for Adrian Jose, 1930-49

4

Historical notes by Jose on 2NC Newcastle; ‘The History of Broadcasting in Australia’, 1930; notebook recording arrangements for visit by Australian Broadcasting Commission Chairman Richard Boyer to Queensland offices,1944

5

Miscellaneous file, 1933-44, including extracts from the 1935 report of theUllswater Broadcasting Committee (Great Britain), notes on Australian broadcasting policy, the Recorded Transcription Library, visits to Melbourne and Brisbane, Actors’ Equity matters, constitution of the Australian Council for Encouragement of Music and the Arts, technical notes

6

Transcript of appeal against alleged negligence, and associated papers of appeal by ABC announcer Francis Carswell to the ABC Appeals Advisory Committee, 1940

7

Staff training, 1942-44

8

Queensland Branch miscellaneous papers, 1943-48

9

Program instructions, 1947-49; parliamentary broadcasts, 1946-48

10

Miscellaneous files, 1944-46, including: ABC staff classification table, Queensland Government Gazette noting Jose’s appointment as Queensland General Manager of ABC, staff and building matters, recording procedures

11

Agenda and minutes of managers’ meetings, 1944-45

12

Miscellaneous operational file, 1946-48; undated program policy directive; managers’ meeting minutes, 1948

13

Miscellaneous memos and associated papers, 1949, including minutes of ABC Senior Officers’ Association meetings, report of visit to Northern Rivers district, minutes of meetings of other ABC officials

14

Fitzgerald Committee report, 1948


Series 4 Australian Broadcasting Commission Staff Association, 1939-51

Jose was first elected a member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission Staff Association in 1938, where he held various positions until 1949. Some coverage of his period as President in 1943 can be found in this series, as well as his role as Staff Advocate at the 1948 hearing on classifications and salaries.

Folders

1

Miscellaneous papers, 1939-48

2

Wage determination, 1950-51

3

Log of claims, 1948

4

Staff rules, 1939; log of claims, 1940; conference minutes, 1948


Series 5 Director, Programme Services Division, Australian Broadcasting Control Board, 1949-74

For almost 22 years Jose held the position of Director, Programme Services Division of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, a statutory body established with the threefold purpose to manage the technical and administrative operations of Australian broadcasting services, and to oversee the operational and program standards of commercial stations. His directorship coincided with a period of transition in Australian broadcasting, marked most significantly by the introduction of television services to Australia.

Included here are papers documenting the range of Jose’s Board duties, including station inspections undertaken in the early 1950s, a comprehensive sequence of meeting agenda, reports of official overseas visits to the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Canada and Japan in 1962 and 1967, commissioned audience surveys, and a large number of general files relating to other aspects of the Board’s administration. Also located in this series is a folder of papers documenting the Board’s Research Advisory Committee, a panel convened of expert and representative members to supervise research related to Board activities.

Papers relating to Jose’s representation on, or association with, other internal and external committees can be found in Series 8-12. Copies of a number of official reports published by the Board are filed in Series 17.

Folders/Volumes

1

Application for position of Director, Programme Services, 1949-50; request for furlough leave, 1970-71

Station inspections

2

Station inspections, 1951 (Queensland, Western Australia), 1953

3

Station inspections, 1954

4

Station inspections, 1955 (excluding Queensland), 1957 (Western Australia)

5

Station inspections, 1952, 1955 (Queensland)

6

Station inspections, 1958, 1960 (Tasmania)

7

Notebooks: undated, 1961-63, 1966, July-September 1968

8

‘Report of a visit of inspection of commercial broadcasting stations, Western Australia, 1954’

Agenda of meetings

9

Summary of ABCB policy decisions, 1949-54

10

Agenda of meetings, 1949-50

11

Agenda of meetings, 1949-59

12

Agenda of meetings, 1950-53

13-14

Agenda of meetings, 1950-54

15-18

Agenda of meetings, 1950-53

19

Agenda of meetings, 1951-61

20

Agenda of meetings, 1952-57

21

Agenda of meetings, 1952-61

22

Agenda of meetings, 1952-63

23

Agenda of meetings, 1953-59

24

Agenda of meetings, 1955-59

25

Agenda of meetings, 1951-60

26

Agenda of meetings, 1951-62

27

Agenda of meetings, 1952-63

28

Agenda of meetings, 1956-57

29

Agenda of meetings, 1956-63

30

Agenda of meetings, 1957-63

31

Agenda of meetings, 1951-63

32

Agenda of meetings and associated papers, 1951-71

33-35

Agenda of meetings, 1955-74, including research findings and television crime drama report (1960)

36

Miscellaneous agenda of meetings, 1956-59

37

Agenda of meeting, 1964

General ABCB files and papers

38

Miscellaneous files, 1947-65, including program statistics, ABCB meeting agenda, Fitzgerald Committee data, extracts from conference of ABC advisers, organisational notes, statement of ABC control

39

ABCB file on ‘Alleged declining audiences’, 1950

40

General files, 1950-70, including development of broadcasting, television advertising, World Association for Christian Broadcasting International Assembly (1968), Melbourne audience survey, program categorisation

41

Miscellaneous papers, 1951-60, including agenda of meetings

42

Miscellaneous papers, 1961-69, including Independent Television Authority

43

Miscellaneous papers, 1959-70

44

ABCB staff matters, 1949-55

45

Miscellaneous papers, 1956-69, including agenda of meetings

46

Miscellaneous papers, 1955-70

47

Miscellaneous papers, 1959-68, including religious broadcasting, overseas visit

48

Miscellaneous papers, 1961-69, including religious broadcasting, standards

49

Miscellaneous papers, 1960-82

50

ABCB research reports, 1958-59

51

ABCB research report, 1961; McNair survey on television viewers’ attitudes to commercials, 1965

52

ABCB duty statements, c. 1962

53

Miscellaneous papers, 1962-70

54

Australian National Advisory Committee for UNESCO, 1955-70

55

Talks to and liaison with Lyceum Club and Coburg Teachers College, 1966-67

56

Radio program transcripts, c. 1950s: ‘Alone’ by Admiral Richard Byrd; ‘The Albatross’ by Hector Bolitho; ‘An Unused Rattlesnake’ by Harris Merton Lyon

57

ABCB circular letters, 1949-61

58

Broadcasting of objectionable matter by Acfield and Clancy, 3XY, 1965

59

ABCB Research Advisory Committee, 1957-66

60

Miscellaneous papers, 1962-74, including campus TV survey, feature film study, correspondence with Terry Colhoun (ABC Newcastle), list of Australian programs made by commercial stations (1969-70)

61

Reports by Tim Horshington, Radio Ceylon, on training placement with Macquarie Broadcasting Service, Sydney, 1952-53

62

ABCB research papers, 1963-69, including TV and juvenile delinquency

63

Miscellaneous papers, 1950-73, including Australian content and performing rights

64

Draft television program standards submitted to ABCB for formal approval, 1955-56

65

Australian Federation of Commercial Broadcasting Stations, Broadcasting Station manual, 1949, with amendments to 1958

66

Broadcasting and Television Bill, 1956

67

‘Criticism and censorship’ by Walter Kerr, 1954; papers relating to US Commission on Obscenity and Pornography and the broadcasting of ‘Pot Party’ at Northwestern University, 1969

68

ABCB liaison with US broadcasting organisations, 1962-70 [Closed to1 January 2022]

69

ABCB liaison with Canadian broadcasting organisations, 1963-70 [Closed to1 January 2022]

70

Miscellaneous papers, 1955-73

71

Notes prepared for UNESCO Conference on Cultural Policies, 1970

Official overseas visits

72

Report of television investigations in overseas countries, 1951, by C. Moses, J. Donovan, J. Fisher

73

Transcript of record of overseas visit to United Kingdom, France, USA and Canada, 1962

74

Letters of introduction from Chairman and related correspondence concerning overseas visit, 1962

75

Overseas visit, 1962

76

Overseas visits, 1962-67

77

Overseas visit, 1967

78

Transcript of record of overseas visit, 1967, with rough index

79

Report on official visit to USA, Britain and Japan, 1967 (Complete version)

80

Report on official visit to USA, Britain and Japan, 1967 (With Appendix B removed)

Audience surveys

81

Audience research, 1953-56, including pre-television social survey

82

Audience research, 1953-56

83-84

Audience surveys, 1950-70

85

Australian Association of National Advertisers-ABCB Research Survey Standards Committee minutes of meetings and associated papers, 1952-53

86

Australian Association of National Advertisers-ABCB Research Survey Standards Committee general file, 1940-54

87

Data supplied by survey organisations, 1952-64

88

Audience surveys, 1951-69

89

ABCB liaison with Dick Thomson, Department of Psychology, University of Sydney, 1962-65

90

Audience surveys, 1951-52


Series 6 Political Broadcasts (Federal Elections) Order and related files, 1949-50, 1969

In 1949 the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, acting under powers conferred on it by the Australian Broadcasting Act, 1942-48, made a Political Broadcasts (Federal Elections) Order to ensure the equitable provision of broadcast facilities for the 1949 Federal Election. Filed in this series are draft reports and background papers analysing the effect of the Order, together with a general file concerning other political broadcasting issues.

Folders

1-3

‘Report on Political Broadcasts (Federal Elections) Order’, 1949

4

Draft report on political broadcasts, 1950

5

Political broadcasting general file, 1949, 1969


Series 7 Television Society of Australia and Educational Television Association of Australia, 1954-86

The Television Society of Australia was formed in 1954 as an independent association with an interest in all aspects of television broadcasting. Jose joined the Society in February 1955 and acted as a Council Member between 1960-65 and 1974-78, at which latter point he was made an Honorary Member. Amongst the many papers he accumulated during this time are runs of Council and ordinary meeting minutes, correspondence and membership lists. Also included here are submissions prepared by Jose on behalf of the Society to broadcasting inquiries, reports, newsletters, and papers concerning the Society’s annual ‘Penguin’ awards, of which Jose was one-time Award Committee Secretary.

In addition, the series includes material documenting activities of the Society’s offshoot, the Educational Television Society of Australia (of which Jose was also a member), particularly its submissions and reports to the Committee on Open University.

All folders in Series 7 are closed until 1 January 2022.

Folders/Volumes

1

Minutes of ordinary meetings, 1954-60

2

Minutes of ordinary meetings, 1960-71

3

Agenda and minutes, 1960-62; articles of association, 1956

4

Agenda and minutes, 1962-63

5

Council minutes, 1957-64

6

Council minutes, 1964-68

7

Council minutes, 1968-71

8-9

Council minutes, 1972-75

10

Council meetings and correspondence, 1974-78

11

Report of the Advisory Committee on Program Standards, 1976 with comment by the Television Society of Australia

12

Papers, 1972-81, including minutes of meetings

13

Papers, 1956-78, including articles of association and membership lists

14

Educational Television Association of Australia, Committee papers, 1956-79

15

Historical papers, 1975-78, including annual awards

16

Educational Television Association of Australia file on Open University, 1971-73, including draft submissions to the Committee on Open University

17

Reports on Open University, 1973

18

Future copy for TVS Newsletter, 1976-77

19

TVS Bulletin, 1967-70; ETVAA Newsletter, 1971, 1975; Television Newsletter, 1973-77

20

‘Commercial media and consumer behaviour in Australia’, research paper prepared by John Blizard for the Television Society of Australia, 1976

21

Articles and other work for the Television Society of Australia, 1973-79

22

Correspondence relating to the Television Society of Australia articles of association, 1983

23

Leaflets and publications, 1982-86, including issues of Telemag

24

Submission to Postal and Telecommunications Department Inquiry on Broadcasting, 1976

25

Television Industry Unions paper ‘The Crisis in the Television Industry’, with reply by Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, 1975

26

Television Society of Australia awards, 1975-78

27

Television Society of Australia awards, 1975-76

28

Television Society of Australia awards, 1971-72, 1974-76

29

Television Society of Australia ‘current’ file to 4 February 1977 (contains papers 1975-77)

30

Educational Television Association of Australia questionnaires, minutes and other papers, 1970-72

31-32

Television Society of Australia and Educational Television Association of Australia papers, 1973-76, including submissions


Series 8 Advisory Committee on Children’s Television Programmes, 1956-72

In 1956 a small expert committee was convened by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to study and improve the quality of television programs for children. Formally known as the Advisory Committee on Children’s Television Programmes, its members were not drawn from any particular representative organisations.

Filed here are the Committee’s meeting agenda and reports, together with a commissioned Melbourne University study on the effects of westerns on boys.

Folders/Volumes

1

Agenda of meetings, 1956-63

2

1st-4th reports of the Advisory Committee on Children’s Television Programmes, 1957-68; ‘Parents vs Television’, Redbook, November 1963

3

Melbourne University study on effects of westerns on boys, 1957

4

Children’s Television Advisory Committee report, 1971

5

Final report of Children’s Television Advisory Committee, 1972; ABCB report 'Mass Media Preference in Adolescence’, 1971


Series 9 Advisory Committee on Religious Television Programmes and related files, 1944-70

The Advisory Committee on Religious Television Programmes was appointed in July 1959 by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to review religious television practices and standards. As Director of Programme Services, Jose was invited by the six-person Committee to attend all of its meetings, where he provided valuable guidance on Board policy. By virtue of his position, Jose accompanied the Committee Chairman, Reverend B.R. Wyllie, to Brisbane in 1960 where they met with church representatives, and also attended a number of conferences of the Christian Television Association of Australia.

The Committee presented its findings in 1961, 1963 and 1969 and working copies of the three reports are filed in this series. Also included are earlier files compiled by Jose on religious broadcasting issues, together with a draft record of the Consultation on Religious Telecasting, held with invited participants in August 1966.

Folders/Volumes

1

Newcastle Churches Association, 1944-67

2-3

Religious broadcasting papers, 1959-70

4-5

Religious broadcasting papers, 1959-69

6

Religious broadcasting papers and cuttings, 1955-62

7

1st-3rd reports of the Advisory Committee on Religious Television Programmes, 1961-69 (working copies)

8

Meeting in Brisbane with station managers and Christian Television Association on minimum facilities for religious television programs, 1960

9-12

Consultation on Religious Telecasting, 1966


Series 10 Interdepartmental Committee on Television Film Production and related files, 1950-69

The first meeting of the Interdepartmental Committee on Television Film Production was held in September 1962, to examine the capacity of the Australian film industry to produce programs suitable for television. Jose served as the Australian Broadcasting Control Board representative on the Committee, whose minutes of meetings are located in this series. Also filed here are Committee working papers and a folder of newspaper clippings about, and correspondence with, the Australian Film Producers Association.

Folders/Volumes

1-2

Minutes, 1962-63

3

Working papers, 1963

4-6

General papers, 1962-63

7

General papers, 1953-63

8

Cuttings about and liaison with Australian Film Producers Association, 1950-69
[Closed to 1 January 2022]


Series 11 Senate Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television and related files, 1951-88

A Senate Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television was established in 1963 to inquire and report upon the encouragement of the production in Australia of films and programs suitable for television. On a number of occasions the Australian Broadcasting Control Board was called upon to provide advice to the Committee, which was chaired by Senator V.S. Vincent.

This series includes papers relating to the Committee’s proceedings, as well as files on the employment of Australian artists and the percentage of Australian content in productions.

Folders

1

Employment of Australian artists, 1951-63, including papers relating to the Imported Transcriptions Committee

2-5

Senate Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television, 1963-64

6

Press cuttings relating to Senate Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television, 1963-64, 1970

7

Australian content points system, 1973-88

8

Australian content in television, 1970-71

9

‘Facts of Australian content in television programme schedules’, submission to ABCB by Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, 1970


Series 12 Advisory Committee on Educational Television Services and related files, 1963-70

Although not a formal member of the Advisory Committee on Educational Television Services, as a representative of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board Jose attended all of the former’s meetings. In consultation with his Assistant Director, J.G. Quaine, Jose also prepared the greater part of the Committee’s official report.

As well as a file detailing the Committee’s establishment and terms of reference, a complete set of meeting minutes and a copy of the report are contained in this series.

Following the discharge of the Committee’s duties, Jose maintained his interest in educational broadcast media and attended a number of conferences on the topic which are also represented in the papers filed here.

Folders/Volumes

1

Establishment of Advisory Committee on Educational Television Services, 1963-64

2

Minutes of meetings, 1964

3

Exhibit 1

4

Exhibits 2-5

5

Exhibits 6-8

6

Report of the Advisory Committee on Educational Television Services to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and associated papers and correspondence, 1964-67

7

Correspondence and other papers related to educational television services, 1963-65; extract from The Spectator and the Screen, 1969

8

Correspondence and other papers related to educational television services, 1964-77

9

ANZAAS Symposium on Television and Education, 1964; notes on Inner London Education Authority Educational Television Service, 1968; synopsis of talk given at undated IRE Symposium

10

UNESCO Seminar on Developing in Schools a Critical Study of Film and Television, 1970


Series 13 Independent Television Authority, Great Britain, 1962-70

Jose first made contact with officers in the Independent Television Authority on an official tour of British media enterprises in 1962, an association which he kept up on return to Australia. Contact was renewed on a subsequent visit to England in 1967, at which time Jose obtained confidential information on the conditions under which program contractors to the Authority were required to operate. Copies of these reports as well as a file documenting general contact with the organisation make up this series.

A further file relating to the Independent Television Authority is located at Series 5/Folder 42.

Folders

1

Independent Television Authority agreement and confidential reports, 1965-67

2

General papers, 1962-70 [Closed to 1 January 2022]


Series 14 Personal papers, 1917-88

For much of his early career Jose kept a small notebook into which he copied quotations, jokes and anecdotes and pasted newspaper clippings, including some biographical articles. He also compiled a personal calendar of important anniversaries, maintained a notebook of literary extracts for a short time, and wrote his own satirical verse. As well as these items, this series contains Jose’s school reports, information relating to club memberships, invitations, and photographs of the conductor Eugene Ormandy and Jean MacArthur (wife of General Douglas MacArthur) at a Brisbane war concert in 1944.

Folders/Volumes

1

Personal note and clippings book, 1929-44

2

Personal calendar of important world events, anniversaries, 1934-194?

3

Notebook containing literary extracts, 1946

4

Personal papers, 1922-29, including satirical verse

5

Personal papers, 1931-74

6

Personal papers, 1930-81

7

Personal papers, 1936-88

8

Personal papers, 1946-88

9

School reports, 1917-25

10

Clippings, c. 1927-30, depicting famous historical and cultural scenes

11

Invitations and other personal papers, including photographs of Jean MacArthur and Eugene Ormandy at concert for troops, Brisbane City Hall, 13 August 1944

12

Commercial Travellers’ Association Club of New South Wales receipts and correspondence, 1950-63; membership of Green Room Club, Melbourne, 1951-53; Diners Club papers, 1956


Series 15 Speeches, 1957-69

Through his position at the Australian Broadcasting Control Board Jose was called upon to deliver speeches at conferences, and to broadcasting and community groups. In this series are filed a short index to, and copies of, all talks he gave between 1957 and 1969. Topics covered include Board functions, broadcasting standards, censorship, and children’s and religious television programming.

Folders

1

1957-61

2

1962-63

3

1964-65

4

1965-69


Series 16 Newspaper clippings, 1927-86

Throughout his career Jose created this series of newspaper clippings files, many covering Australian and overseas broadcasting issues, but also including political and historical topics and humorous pieces.

Cuttings relating to religious broadcasting, the Australian Film Producers Association and the Senate Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television are filed in Series 9, 10 and 11 respectively. Personal clippings books compiled by Jose early in his working life are located in Series 14.

Folders

1

Clippings, 1947-67

2

Clippings, 1963-66

3

Cartoons and clippings, 1927

4

Articles and clippings, 1962-70

5

Clippings, 1967-81

6

Clippings, 1961-81

7

Clippings, 1974-83

8

Clippings and articles, 1930-86

9

Articles and clippings, 1931-73

10

Clippings, 1937-84, on historical topics

11

The Times, Broadcasting number, 14 August 1934

12

Clippings file ‘ABCB and after’, 1972-81, including material relating to US Commission on Obscenity and Pornography

13

Clippings, 1950-77


Series 17 Publications, c. 1930-75

This series comprises two folders and three cartons of booklets and publications collected by Jose over the course of his career. Topics and titles represented include copyright, television and education, religious broadcasting, BBC Annuals, social aspects of mass communication, The Australian Broadcasting Company Year Book 1930, technical standards, Australian Broadcasting Control Board reports, legislation, Australian Broadcasting Commission annual reports, reports of parliamentary committees, Souvenir 4QG Brisbane, 1925-1930 and broadcasting handbooks.


Box List

Series Folders Box Series Folders Box
1 1-3, 8 1 7 8-12 20
1 4-7 38 7 13-18 21
3 1-5 2 7 19-24 22
3 6-13 3 7 25-32 23
3 14 4
4 1-4 4 8 1-5 24
5 1-2 4 9 1 24
5 3-10 5 9 2-8 25
5 11-18 6 9 9-12 26
5 19-25 7 10 1-2 26
5 26-31 8 10 3-7 27
5 32-38 9 10 8 38
5 39-45 10 11 2-7 28
5 46-52 11 11 8-9 29
5 53-60 12 12 1-5 29
5 61-65 13 12 6-10 30
5 66-7, 70-1 14 13 1 30
5 68-9 38 13 2 38
5 79-86 16 14 10-12 32
5 87-90 17 15 1-4 32
6 1-3 17 16 1-8 33
6 4-5 37 16 9-13 34
7 1-4 18 17 1-2 34
7 5-7 19 17 Loose volumes 35-37
Guide prepared November 1998