FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Title Details

All in a Day's Work

Shows the use of army heavy-moving equipment for peacetime purposes by the Government Materials Handling Pool.
Year : 1946 | Total Duration : 25 Minutes | Producer : George D. Malcolm
Director : George D. Malcolm |
VS around Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool Depot and Workshop showing general activity centred around cranes with titles over footage.
Access No. 42199 | 32 secs | 1940s | Sydney , Pyrmont, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS busy wharf activity with cargo ships belching smoke, stacks of timber and crates & bales being loaded by cranes onto ships. VS grain being pumped out from shutes onto ships. Good WS of wharves with city in background and pan to man walking across Pyrmont Bridge next to traffic. VS trucks past camera transporting industrial products. WS Parliament House, Canberra. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 42200 | 33 secs | 1940s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS Parliament House, Canberra. CU sign for Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool Depot & Workshops. GS cranes in yard and fade to graphic map of NSW and Victoria. MS track of General McArthur & MLA Ford up steps of Parliament House, Canberra with photographers & others watching in background. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 42201 | 30 secs | 1940s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool Depot and Workshops. GS bulldozer pushing earth, CU scoop lifting load of soil and WS dumping into truck. GS man driving small forklift picking up pallets of boxes & loading them onto truck. VS forklifts at work. VS cranes including mobile, fixed boom, truck mounted and swing boom and crawler cranes. GS staddle truck towards and over camera. VS machines in action. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 42202 | 1 min 25 secs | 1940s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
High angle shot over lines of post-war derelict machinery sitting in wrecker's yard. Abandoned containers in yard. VS abandoned machinery left along coastlines. WS smoke stacks and chimneys belching smoke. Interior shots of steel works, men shovelling coal into furnace, man making sheet metal, weaving machines in factory, GS woman working spinning machine. CU machine probably washing cotton. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 42204 | 31 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
GS bales hoisted from ship to dock. MS scoop dumping grain in pile on cargo ship. Four trucks driving away from camera loaded with sacks GS men unloading crates from back tray of truck. GS forklift carries load of pallets to warehouse and interior shots of warehouse with fork-lift driver stacking pallets. GS army boats carrying cargo through palm lined waterway. VS Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool deliveries being used to convey cargo. MS men using convyor belts. VS planes flying overhead making supply drops. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 42206 | 1 min 4 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS cranes from the Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool loading and unloading cargo from ships at dock. Track around ship seen across water with steam coming from funnels. GS cranes lifting bales from ship to dock. WS crane lifting tractor as men on wharf assist. Interior shots inside inspection shed where engineers ressurected salvagable machines and parts for re-use. VS engine parts assembly with MS engineers working by hand. GS engineers test driving reconstructed, reconditioned fork-lift trucks. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 42209 | 1 min 58 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
GS engineers in sheds working to recondition derelict machinery. MS fork-lift lifting pallets and GS fork-lift carrying industrial drums. MS engineers from technical department seated around table analysing applications using pencils and rulers. VS despatch department and CU to man chalking in details on Operational Chart on wall. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 42212 | 1 min 13 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS mechanics overhauling machines with despatch officer walking past holding clipboard. WS fork-lift truck being loaded onto low transporter. Fork-lift trucks lifting pallets in warehouse. MS of cargo in pallets being lifted. GS tractor train carrying the pallets on it's dolly trucks past camera. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 42215 | 2 mins 22 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS tractor train carrying tonnes of pallets on it's dolly trucks in dimly lit receiving shed with fork-lift trucks on the scene ready to remove and restack pallets. Tracks of fork-lifts at work. Notable commentary re time-saving procedures. Various views of dock crane lifting boxes onto ship and GS tractor transporting sacks in its trucks. High shot over Lorraine Crane loading cargo from wharf to ship with VS of operator in cabin and men on dock helping to load it. WS logs being loaded onto wharf from tug and VS fork-lifts stacking them on wharf. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 42218 | 3 mins 2 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS straddle truck carrying load of sawn timbers under the driver's compartment between the large wheels driven towards camera. VS timber being release from truck then truck reversing away from camera leaving stacked load. WS two men manually stacking sawn timbers as a contrast. VS straddle truck at work. WS rouseabout 5-tonne crane stacking timber beams. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 42220 | 1 min 13 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
MS suited technical officer acting as liaison between the Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool and the Industry client talking to man on wharf. Cutaway to wharf labourers manually stacking sawn timbers and MS two men in discussion. WS pans across stacks of tyres dumped in yard with VS of Link belt 75 green crane involved in removal of the abandoned tyres from yard and GS of crane from various angles. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 138971 | 1 min 29 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS construction crew of the overhead railway at Circular Quay working with two Lorraine and P&H cranes lift pre-fabricated steel sections onto the overbridge. Includes WS and tilts of construction. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 138972 | 47 secs | 1940s | Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
High angle WS over open cut coal mining and various views over activities such as coal truck climbing steep road out of mine and WS crane scooping out overburdon into back of truck. VS of mining POV crane driver. VS of crawler cranes operating drag-line shovels. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 138973 | 2 mins 30 secs | 1940s | Bacchus Marsh, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS Bay City mobile crane in operation at Warragamba Dam lowering concrete pipes into trench for pipeline to Sydney. Tilt up to crane driver standing in doorway as he operates crane and high angle shot over placement of pipes in trench. WS petrol tank with large crack down wall. Tilt up to workers on scaffolding inspecting walls. Track up boom of Norwest crane and VS crane hauling buckets of rubble. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 138974 | 1 min 40 secs | 1940s | NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Tilt to Norwest mobile crane and track along crane boom. WS man emptying bucket of rubble from crane. Good WS tilt of three men attacking petrol tank wall in unison with mallets. VS crane lifting tonnes of brick wall segments and segments loaded onto flat-top truck. WS Norwest crane picking up and loading petrol tanks for removal. MS petrol tank being loaded into back of truck. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 138987 | 1 min 37 secs | 1940s | NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
MS petrol tank being loaded into back of truck. Montage of earlier scenes of equipment and various cases where the Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool has lent a hand in meeting the industrial needs of the country with VS cranes, workers and freight handling. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 138988 | 1 min 23 secs | 1940s | NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |