Sydney

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

664

Date Released

14 Sep 1967

Date recorded

22 Aug 1967

Length of issue (in feet)

675

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Sydney
2. 2Prague

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 2

Summary

Pathe synopsis: Kangaroos and wallabies. Koala bears and boomerangs introduce us to Sydney, Australia, where one out of six of Australia’s twelve million live. They’ve built an Opera House that epitomises the sailing ships that first found Sydney harbour. They live, if they can, in houses laced with wrought-iron lattices made from the ballast that used to come in the old wool clipper ships. They’ve made a sky-scraper city unlike ...

Keywords

Animals; Scenery and travel

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

237

Story extras:

Film clip

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