Down Under

Series

Series Name

Home and Away

Issue

Issue No.

11

Date Released

1957

Length of issue (in feet)

500

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Pipes at Paisley
2. 2Calder Hall to Hinkley Point
3. 3Down Under
4. 4The Little Fleet

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: After seeing the fine modern city of Sydney, N.S.W. from the air, the film visits the Sydney Industrial Fair, at the Royal Show Ground, where Babcock & Wilcox of Australia (Pty.) Ltd. is represented by a display empasizing the importance of that Company in the economic life of Australia, through the supply of steam-raising plant for power generation, industry and marine service.
A visit is paid to the modern works of the Company at Regents Park and we meet some of the folk there, Australian born and bred, who are carrying on the Renfrew traditions of good engineering and craftsmanship. The item ends with a visit to the famous Sydney Zoo by a Australian Babcock family to see the platypus and the Koala bears; and with the thrills and spills of surf-boating at Bondi Beach.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Industry and manufacture; Water sports; Animals; Exhibitions and shows; Scenery and travel

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Synopses of the Babcock Film Magazines booklet   p13. Used for synopsis
Scottish Screen Archive database   Ref.1521

Credits:

Sponsor

Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.

Producer

Cyril Randell

Director

Peter Ward

Production Co.

Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.

Editor

Terence Twigg

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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