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City in the Sun
A description of life in Sydney NSW
Year :
1947 |
Total Duration :
10 Minutes |
Producer :
Alasdair Loch
Director :
Alasdair Loch |
Shaky aerial of Sydney , traffic and good car shots, tall ship moored at wharf, posters & placards promoting Australia, people waving streamers and farewell to ocean liner. Passenger ship sailing up harbour, speedboat on Farm Cove, crowds in Domain, aerial of St James station, electrically powered double decker bus, horse drawn fruit barrow showing fruit and prices, ferry arriving at wharf, man dives off wharf, sailing boats on shore, interior department store, fashion parade, aerial St Mary's Cathedral. paperboy, rigger on Sydney Harbour Bridge. Commuters entering Wynyard Station in evening peak hour, shops closing doors, traffic through city streets, crowded pub bar at six o'clock closing, chef making hamburgers, woman pouring milk shake from metal container in a milk bar.
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Access No. 145127 | 3 mins | 1940s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Paperboy selling newspaper to driver in traffic. Rigger on Sydney Harbour Bridge. Commuters entering Wynyard Station in evening peak hour, shops closing doors, traffic through city streets, crowded pub bar at six o'clock closing, chef making hamburgers, woman pouring milk shake from metal container in a milk bar. Neon lights for Regent and Victory theatres, Sydney County Council, Princes Theatre, Petty's, Le Coq D'or restaurant, Continental restaurant, Monterey Cafe, Chop Suey Pekin Cafe, Aarons, Wentworth hotel, Roosevelt Restaurant.
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Access No. 145131 | 5 mins 50 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, ballerina, racing cars, ice skaters, Luna Park lit up at night, couple dancing jitterbug, War Memorial, Hyde Park, Macquarie Street with no traffic, Randwick Racecourse, milkman, street cleaner, rowers in early morning, elephant in circus, rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, double-decker buses and trams through streets, commuters leaving St James Station, opening shops to shoppers, Town Hall station, escalators, cash registers, facade of Sydney Stock Exchange.
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Access No. 145194 | 3 mins 12 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Passengers alighting Australian National Airways plane on tarmac. Old Parliament House Canberra, children in playground, schoolchildren in uniforms and hats, boys in boater hats. Sign for The Housing Commission of NSW, exterior NSW Parliament House, building Housing Commission houses, process line of cans, arrival and departure board for trains, train lines, passenger ship and tugboat. AWA tower, industrial chimney stacks and smoke, trains near Central station. Aerial Circular Quay ferries on Sydney harbour, ferry master, protest sign, Save to Keep Prices Down, Sydney Harbour Bridge and Fort Denison from ferry,
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Access No. 145195 | 2 mins 8 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
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