Television, young people and practical media education.
Compiled for Allan from public sources · reviewed 21 September 2026.
The labels distinguish official records, contemporary schedules, programme accounts and retrospective credits. An announcement or upload has its own date; it is not automatically a broadcast or filming date.
Allan “Al” Ellis’s public record brings together television production, practical teaching resources and work made with young people. The surviving HSC guide identifies him as School Torque’s producer. The Cool Teens research paper gives a more specific picture of the work: Al directed video, while the young School Torque group helped develop storylines, performed and produced the live clips. The National Museum’s Talkback Classroom releases show another route for student voices to reach television.
School Torque / Schools Broadcasting Australia · Mike Cunningham, Ronald Rapee and Heidi Lyneham / Youth Studies Australia · National Museum of Australia
Schools Broadcasting Australia Pty Ltd — ACN 068 659 905 · ABN 91 068 659 905.
Registered on 16 March 1995. ABN Lookup identifies an Australian private company with main business location NSW 2232, an ABN active from 22 May 2000, and the CREW TV AUS business name from 7 January 2015.
Official record · Australian Securities and Investments Commission · Australian Business Register
These records establish the company’s details; Allan’s historical directorship remains a separate question. The HSC guide and programme brochure identify Al as producer.
Programme account · School Torque / Schools Broadcasting Australia · The Crew / Schools Broadcasting Australia
Schools Broadcasting Australia was registered on 16 March 1995. By May 1996, School Torque appeared in an Adelaide SBS television guide. The Crew title is present in a May 2007 guide. A further guide schedules The Crew in October 2012; the programme later announced a March 2014 return. By an archived channel description dated 24 July 2017, it said it had left SBS. Together these records trace a long television history while leaving the premiere, precise name change and final transmission open.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission · Hills Messenger, preserved by Trove · Byron Shire Echo · Byron Shire Echo · The Crew / Schools Broadcasting Australia · crewtvaus, preserved by Internet Archive
Registration does not establish Allan’s directorship or the start of his career.
Earliest image-verified schedule located in this pass; not a verified premiere or actual transmission.
This is separate from the 1995 company registration.
The current PDF has 13 February 2005 file metadata. First publication is not independently dated.
The release’s 31 May date belongs to ABC radio. No SBS airdate is supplied.
These are an announcement and guest list; actual SBS transmission dates remain open.
The historical page body was not recovered. Publication, capture and title-screen viewing dates are different; the claimed 1999 website remains unverified.
Printed page 53; exact filming dates are unstated. The group’s acting credit is not a personal acting credit for Al.
Recognition belongs to the project/team; it is not an individual award win.
The date is a contract start, not the competition launch or completion.
The official original is still unavailable; the mirror’s 43 pages differ from the provenance article’s 37-page description.
A located title use, not the first episode or a precise rename date.
The archive post is dated 19 July. This is a competition announcement; transmission, winners and results are unverified.
The documentary’s title and actual release have not been established.
2006 dates the championship, not filming; the upload is not on crewtvaus.
This does not establish the first upload or when online production began.
The upload does not date filming, The Voice’s inception or Allan’s personal role in production.
2013 is publication, not filming; the exact recording and SBS transmission dates remain unknown.
Latest exact schedule located in this pass, not the final-ever broadcast.
Filename and PDF metadata indicate 2013; no printed publication date. The participation and duration totals are programme claims.
The notice does not independently confirm transmission.
A registry entry, not evidence of a new production or broadcast.
The archive date bounds the statement; the precise departure and final broadcast dates remain open.
Course delivery and historical NESA recognition have not been independently confirmed.
The original interview and production dates are unestablished.
These were the newest visible uploads in the 20 September 2026 check. Filming and exact closure dates remain unknown; this does not establish 2026 production.
The undated programme index lists Amplatatja, Winjan, Redfern, Nauiyu, On Track 1, On Track 2 and Nauiyu Art. It acknowledges financial assistance from the Department of Environment, Heritage and the Arts’ Indigenous Culture Support Program.
These are the page’s film labels. Grant dates, production dates and personal credits remain unresolved. The Nauiyu upload explicitly credits the community’s own production crew.
Programme account · The Crew / Schools Broadcasting Australia · crewtvaus / YouTube
The resource index links four lessons, HSC tips and production material. The HSC guide is signed by Al Ellis as producer and advertises Video Production, a classroom survival guide. Lesson 1 supplies practical introductory camera and safety exercises.
The HSC guide bears 2003 copyright and 2005 file metadata. Lesson 1 has 2009 metadata but no printed date or personal byline. Neither document establishes formal syllabus authorship; the survival guide’s claimed broadcast date and DVD edition remain unverified.
Programme account · The Crew / Schools Broadcasting Australia · School Torque / Schools Broadcasting Australia · The Crew / Schools Broadcasting Australia
The Chilled Plus page prints its video-director credit as “A Elis, School Torque/Schools Broadcasting Australia Pty”. The organisation matches the programme, while the spelling and production date remain unresolved.
Australian Rotary Health separately reports a 2014–2016 grant to evaluate the online programme. That research grant does not date the video work.
Project credit · Chilled Plus / Macquarie project · Australian Rotary Health
The October 2023 upload of Sweet Sweet Spirit final credits Nicola DeSensi on vocals, Jeremy Manodo on keys and Al Ellis contributing vocals near the end.
These are the upload description’s credits. The filming date and private relationships are not inferred.
Retrospective credit · crewtvaus / YouTube
The surviving resources, production credits and training advertisements establish concrete education work. Formal syllabus authorship, committee membership and consultation are separate questions, and remain unresolved. The public searches completed for this history did not recover a decisive record; that does not establish non-involvement. ACMP’s operating history, awarding provider and Allan’s role also need a dated prospectus or institutional record. These gaps can remain open without diminishing the work that the sources do document.
School Torque / Schools Broadcasting Australia · The Crew / Schools Broadcasting Australia · The Crew / Schools Broadcasting Australia
The next useful evidence would be a dated syllabus acknowledgement, committee or consultation record; an ACMP prospectus identifying the awarding provider; and a contemporary NESA course record. Academic publications under the name Allan Ellis remain separate unless an independent identity link is found.
These are the limits of a completed public-source research pass. Some records were paywalled, blocked or unavailable; unsuccessful searches do not establish that a role or event did not exist. No outreach, purchase or formal record request was made.
Links throughout lead to the source itself. Locators below identify the relevant passage. Archives and mirrors preserve evidence; they are not extra independent confirmations. Programme claims about scale remain attributed to the programme.