Jackie (Jo Kennedy) returns home as a celebrity, having made the news as a tightrope walker, in a stunt set up by her cousin Angus (Ross O’Donovan).

The Premier of NSW, Jack Lang, and a large party of officials, walk towards the ribbon at the approach to the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

From an elevated position, the camera pans over the gathered crowds in attendance for the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge celebrations.

A Cinesound Movietone newsreel summary of the year of 1932.

A news broadcast helped the NFSA solve the mystery of the young boy who climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge in March 1932.

The crew that captured the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge outside the Cinesound Productions studio.

Fox Movietone Productions van with a man standing on top operating a camera. The van is on the deck of the newly-constructed Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Workmen shovel hot asphalt onto a concrete bed to begin laying the roadway for the bridge. The asphalt is smoothed and compressed, rolled and pummelled.

A view of the main bearing and arch ribs shows the two sides of the cantilever arches almost meeting. The bottom chord of one of the bridge panels is erected, weighing 61 tonnes.