FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

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HNL 1243: Steel Works, Agriculture, Aviation, Shipping, Flood

HAS over unknown country town
Access No. 41654 | 13 secs | 1930s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Men working in steel works with hot steel bars being hammered and pressed. Tilt up from furnace up chimney to smoke pouring out
Access No. 41655 | 1 min 24 secs | 1930s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Tractor pulling harvester cutting wheat
Access No. 41656 | 39 secs | 1930s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Aerial over town & rural area
Access No. 41657 | 45 secs | 1930s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Aircraft (DC3) at Mascot airport, Sydney . Passengers gathered by another aircraft
Access No. 41658 | 28 secs | 1930s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Aerial coastal area. Man with mapping equipment
Access No. 41659 | 24 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Two shots flying boats including landing at Rose Bay. Aerial long straight railway or road in outback landscape. Imperial Airways flying boat Cameronean taxiing on water. Flying boat landing on water, Sydney Harbour Bridge in far background. Flying boat taking off. Flying boat low over water with Harbour Bridge behind.
Access No. 41660 | 2 mins 4 secs | 1930s | Rose Bay, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Tractor pulling McCormack Deering harvester in wheat field. VS men up ladders hand picking peaches in orchard. Picking tomatoes
Access No. 41661 | 1 min 20 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
HAS fields of hops. Women and children picking hops. Horse and cart carrying many sacks. Woman bending over and running hands through hops. Weighing bags of hops on some type of counter weight system in field.
Access No. 41662 | 1 min 4 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Brief shot large liner or cargo ship in harbour. Some type of building or repair work with horse & carts possibly repairing river banks using branches. Man tipping wheelbarrow. Cleaning up after flood on river bank (one shot could be repairing railway lines) Flooded area, tree stumps and washed up trees. Men lifting tree with some type of hand operated winching system with wire. Working on river bank
Access No. 41663 | 1 min 55 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Winch operated ferry with car crossing waterway
Access No. 41667 | 56 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |