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Camera crew at Sydney Opera House
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Title:
Camera crew at Sydney Opera House
NFSA ID
47027
Year
1966
The Commonwealth Film Unit (later called Film Australia) chronicled the Sydney Opera House's construction from 1959 to 1973.
This photograph shows crew filming during the advanced work on Stage II of building in March 1966. Members of the camera crew included Tom Cowan and Jim Dale.
You can see more footage of the construction in the Colour Diary films (number 28 and 41) and The Fifth Facade (1973). View more photographs from the opening in the Sydney Opera House Opening latest post.
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.