| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (60min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Constructing Australia
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| Summary |
"Constructing Australia is the first three-part doco-drama series to be produced under the Film Australia Making History Initiative. The first episode is the definitive story of how a giant steel arch resembling a coat hanger, became one of world's most recognised structures, and an engineering triumph. Completed during the dark days of the Great Depression and finished in March 1932, it is the legacy of a fateful partnership between two very different men - a brilliant engineer, JJC Bradfield, and a maverick politician, Jack Lang - who shared a relentless ambition to create "the people's bridge". Along the way, they managed to stir up more than one hornets' nest, both at home and in Britain. Massive, majestic and breathtaking, the Bridge was the greatest engineering challenge of its day anywhere on earth. Nothing like it had ever been attempted in Australia. It not only altered the life of a city forever, it became a symbol of a bold young nation and a changing world.And it was certainly visionary. At a time when there were only 30,000 cars and trucks in the entire city, the Bridge could carry 6000 vehicles and 160 trains every hour and all of Sydney's people could have easily crossed it in a single afternoon. With its graceful arch rising high above the famous harbour, it remained the tallest structure in the city until the late 1960s.The tale of its construction combines immense practical problems and intense human drama, personal conflicts and political intrigues.Today, it is impossible to imagine Sydney, and Australia, without it, but as the film reveals, the bridge we know and love was at risk of not being built."--website |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of ABC-TV broadcast May 18, 2007 and National Geographic Channel broadcast May 1, 2009. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
| Credits |
Written and directed by Simon Nasht |
| Performer |
Narrated by Wendy Hughes |
| Notes |
DVD |
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No rating given |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Engineering -- Australia -- History
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Arch bridges -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Design and construction
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| SUBJECT |
Sydney Harbour Bridge (Sydney, N.S.W.)
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Sydney Harbour Bridge (Sydney, N.S.W.) -- Design and construction
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Sydney Harbour Bridge (Sydney, N.S.W.) -- History
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| Author |
Nasht, Simon
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Hughes, Wendy
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ABC-TV (Australia)
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National Geographic Channel (Television station)
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