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Story of a City

Life in the steel city of Newcastle in the 1940s.
Year : 1945 | Total Duration : 19 Minutes | Producer : Maslyn Williams
Director : Shan Benson |
WS out to sea to ship with dark smoking funnel on horizon. Ship around Nobby's Point with lighthouse on headland, and Nobby's Point POV ship. City of Newcastle POV ship, and VS around city streets. High angle shots over steel works and industrial landscape around Newcastle Harbour. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4766 | 1 min 15 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tram, traffic and pedestrians on main street Hunter Street. Various city street shots of pedestrians, people around fruit barrow, people crossing road. VS students entering Newcastle Technical College and groups gathered outside. CU sign for Ironworkers Meeting, VS union members filing into brick Trade Union Building. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4773 | 51 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Civic committee meeting with VS community representatives including religious leaders and unionists with CU to blueprint plans. Various views of shipyards including huge ship in dry dock, CUs men working on hull. CU welding, man in welding mask, and VS tradesmen working on docks. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4782 | 1 min 9 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS heavy equipment being used at BHP steel complex . Good CU of worker calling with hand to mouth. VS giant scoops unloading iron ore and minerals from ships to mounds on dock. GS industrial activity, workers, smoke stacks, steam train shuttles. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4800 | 54 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS steel workers shovelling ore into furnaces glowing red in darkened workspace. VS steelmaking with CUs to white hot metals, smeltering etc. GS fire and smoke from chimney stacks, CU of coal being deposited. CU graphic showing coal belt. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4817 | 1 min 3 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan of coal mine buildings with smoke stack against blue sky. VS miners and good shots of faces in helmets. Miners meeting with shots of hands raised in the air. Miners travelling down mine shaft in trolley. VS coal train travelling through countryside, CU to load of coal. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4818 | 1 min 32 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS wagons of coal at Port of Newcastle docks with high shots of activity and various shots of coal loaders from various angles. Good shot along dock POV moving loader. CU man attaching chains to wagon laden with coal which is then loaded onto ship. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4846 | 1 min 14 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS worker hitting coal container with mallet releasing coal and GS man loading container. Good full face shot of craggy-faced man with wide brim hat (good ÔAustralian' face). Worker releasing coal from container with mallet then getting obscured by coal dust. CU bare-chested men shovelling mound of coal. Various CUs steam whistles from trains and factories. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4857 | 47 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS crowds of workers leaving factories and docks with good high shot of men walking with hats on and jackets folded over arms. GS women streaming out of factory door. VS departing workers in streets catching trams, buses and streaming past shops. CU people walking past newspaper banner headlines on street and young paper boy. GS man walking into pub. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4858 | 42 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Jockeys mounting horses at race track. CU bookie in suit and hat, CU betting bag. CUs hands of punters and bookies handling money and betting tickets. GSs crowds of spectators and horse race. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4874 | 51 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Camping ground seen across Lake Macquarie with large tents lining lake and GS busy campsite. Good shot woman washing clothes on scrubbing board in tin bucket watched by toddler. Man looking at form guide in newspaper, CU to underling names in pencil. VS families dining at tables in tents. Toddler stirring sand in bucket on beach, good shot small boy waist deep in water wearing father's hat and eating watermelon. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4880 | 47 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Small boy getting into rowboat, VS sailing on Lake Macquarie. GS beach scene. VS of women in bathing suits at end of rock pool near cliff diving into pool and having foamy wave break on them against cliff face. VS surfboats competing. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4896 | 48 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS people on beach including CU of couple sunbathing, fully dressed woman sitting on sand sewing, mother putting bathers on toddler, small girl lying in shallow breakers with scarf wrapped around head. VS children around pair of sea baths and CUs of diving and swimming. Good CU of freckle-faced young red-headed boy and good WS of pool with children playing and row of young boys seated in foreground. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4902 | 38 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS new suburb of Cooks Hill overlooking Bar Beach showing view over red rooftops and streets. Mother and toddler looking across rooftops to sea. VS people walking along suburban streets giving good examples of architecture and housing styles. New Housing Commission homes with industrial sites in background and VS older residential areas with two storey timber houses. GS neighbours chatting in front gardens. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4919 | 50 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various examples of Newcastle people: good MS iconic worker against dark background with cigarette hanging out of mouth; CU's steel workers, welders, labourers; trio of boys fishing with backs to camera; CU blond school boy. Steam cargo boat with black smoke streaming from funnel leaving Newcastle port. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 4920 | 38 secs | 1940s | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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