Edition 8
Turtle Video - On the move

The shop at 18 Pier Street Altona closed in April 1975. View the On the move notice

By June 1976, Westcom had just completed five months of work setting up a new edit suite/control room and studio area at 3 Freyer Street in Williamstown.
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The Westcom network spread across Melbourne's west. Go to document
Unlocking resources

"Open Sesame" is a compiled list of organisations and contacts for media resources available to the community in Melbourne's west (published by Westcom in 1975)
View Open Sesame

"Where We're At" provided information and news about Western Communications Access Network
View Where We're At Jul-Sept 1977
View Where We're At Oct-Nov 1977
Video Newsreel

Arthur Stevens created the video newsletter called "Video Newsreel". Arthur also played the role of the guard in the original shoot of "Spider and the Fly" and appeared on "The Last Three Years". Early editions of the "Newsreel" carried segments from Brian Williams "Goldfields Playback" and Channel Four's "Community Outreach". These ads appeared in Access Video News (1976/77) and are surrounded by other Westcom related information.
View Newsreel ads
Funding Submissions and Annual Report 76-78

These documents are interesting in that they show both the submissions and proposals for future funding expenditure, along with an annual report documenting how the money was spent. News of the robbery at Freyer Street along with a need to consolidate Westcoms access network are also discussed.
View funding documents
View Annual Report 77/78
The start and end of the co-operative

This paperfile shows the original certificate of registration for Western Communications Co-operative Limited along with news of the formation of the two access video co-operatives in Melbourne - Westcom and MAVAM (Melbourne Access Video and Media Co-operative).
The last document included is the gazetted notice of Westcoms dissolvement in 1983, two years after it closed its doors for the last time.
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