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Switch on Bigga

The coming of electric power to a rural district of New South Wales.

Year : 1953 | Total Duration : 10 Minutes |
Director : Lee Robinson |

WS rural landscape, country town of Bigga, men on horse back ride past, exterior town buildings including cafe and Bigga General store and garage, children running out from old school house and walking home across the hills and under large suspended rock. Surveyor at work. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 40889 | 1 min 47 secs | 1950s | Bigga, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Interior house, mother at one end of table using old style flat iron which is heated on stove, boy at other end doing school homework using pen and ink bottle, father enters and sits down to read paper , Crookwell Gazette, and switches on radio, mother puts flat iron on fuel stove, checks heat of bottom of iron, mother stirs fire in fuel stove. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 40891 | 51 secs | 1950s | Bigga, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Father and son carrying battery into jeep, children near school watch surveyors, Shire Counsellors looking at map, school building with teacher on verandah ringing hand bell, children run to line up, good shot of interior class room, male teacher at blackboard. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 40892 | 1 min 38 secs | 1950s | Bigga, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

WS of rural landscape, with country town in far distance, man letting off a flare or firing a rocket gun, bulldozing trees, digging post holes, building under construction,timber mill, tall trees being felled, automated irrigation sprays in fields of crop, laying new cables for electricity to be installed as a new service to town. Cattle in pens being electronically milked, automated milking machine. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 40893 | 1 min 23 secs | 1950s | Bigga, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Wires being installed on shed roof. Good shot of woman feeding chickens from basket, man ploughing field with tractor. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 40894 | 15 secs | 1950s | Bigga, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Two women in kitchen with backs to camera, one at the kitchen sink and other loading old fashioned washer , butcher making home delivery with carcass of lamb or meat which he places in large refrigerator , Kelvinator? Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 40895 | 14 secs | 1950s | Bigga, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Man welding in shed, wood chopping machine, erecting power poles, CU on roll of cable being unwound, linesmen climbing ladders, electricity cable being attached to roof of timber homestead with water tank at front, farmer's wife taking delivery of new electric house hold appliances. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 40896 | 1 min 41 secs | 1950s | Bigga, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Ceremony - Grand Switching On ceremony, audience in the dark of night, power is turned on for the first time, lights, good shots of swing band playing and couples dancing, mother and son enjoying festivities, balloons, streamers etc. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 40897 | 1 min 57 secs | 1950s | Bigga, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

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