Summary: Newsreel offcuts of places, leisure, work and fauna typical of Australia.
Description: Liners pass under Sydney Harbour Bridge and cargo ships pass out through Sydney Harbour Heads into the Pacific. RAN destroyers lie berthed at Cockatoo Island in the Harbour. View of Sydney skyline from the Harbour and from the shore, from a high angle. Cars and trains cross the Bridge, while a Harbour ferry passes beneath it. Crowds fill the beach at Sydney's south shore Bondi Beach, where boys on boards and in canoes surf in on the waves. View of Blue Mountains and a farmer on horseback rounding up sheep. Farmer ploughs a field with a horse. Group of combine harvesters harvest wheat. Bridge over a river. Homestead and horses in outback. View of mining town, machinery operating and gold being sifted. Kangaroo with her joey near a stream look up. Two kangaroos with a koala bear, which lumbers away.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:RMY 9-4
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945
Production Country: Australia
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Keywords: agriculture, Australian - animal: sheep (object name)
agriculture, Australian - arable: wheat (object name)
animals, mammals: kangaroo (object name)
animals, mammals: koala bear (object name)
industry, Australian - primary: gold mining (object name)
recreation, Australian civilian - sport: surfboarding (object name)
society, Australian - ethnic (object name)
Australia & Sydney, NSW <Sydney Harbour Bridge> (geography)
Australia & Sydney, NSW <Cockatoo Island> (geography)
Australia & Sydney, NSW <Bondi Beach> (geography)
Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia (geography)
