The Sydney Opera House as seen from the Royal Botanic Garden on its opening day. Over 60,000 balloons were released when Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the site.
A still from the documentary production The Fifth Facade about the opening of the Sydney Opera House. The Fifth Facade, 1971 – Film Australia Collection © NFSA
Notes by Beth Taylor
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.