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Sydney Harbour Bridge
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Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the most famous man-made structures in the world, and is undoubtedly one of Sydney’s most famous icons. The bridge, which is a feat of engineering genius and affectionately known as ‘the Coathanger’, took 1400 workers (16 of whom were killed in the process) eight years to complete. It was started at the end of 1926 and officially opened on 19 March 1932. If the views from the Pylon Lookout across Sydney Harbour and over the Opera House are not spectacular enough, thrill-seekers can take part in the BRIDGECLIMB. This gives them the chance to walk to the top of the 50-storey-high bridge, over the cars and trains rumbling across the deck below, and down the other side. Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan, a former bridge-painter, was one of the first to climb the bridge.
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel arch and truss bridge built in 1932 from the northern to the southern side of the harbour. The general design was prepared by JJC Bradfield and the NSW Department of Public Works. In 1922, an English firm Dorman and Long and Co were awarded the tender as the principal engineer and contractor responsible for the construction of the bridge. Construction started in 1924 and continued for the next eight years. On 19 March 1932 the Sydney Harbour Bridge was officially opened.
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge construction started in 1924 and took 1400 men eight years to build at a cost of £4.2 million. Six million hand driven rivets and 53,000 tonnes of steel were used in its construction. It now carries eight traffic lanes and two rail lines, one in each direction, but at the time of its construction the two eastern lanes were tram tracks. They were converted to road traffic when Sydney closed down its tram system in the 1950s.
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Nearly complete, the 38,000 ton (38,760 tonne) steel arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge dominated Sydney's skyline. Over the years, the Bridge altered Sydney's growth and spread, but its first effect was more sudden. The day the Bridge opened, the ferry service to Milson's Point ceased. Photo: Sam Hood, August 1930. For prints on canvas please ask for quote.
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened on 19 March 1932 after 8 years of construction which was started in 1924. Six million hand driven rivets and 53,000 tonnes of steel were used in its construction. Today about 160,000 vehicles cross the bridge every day. The bridge has 8 lines but it does not solve the traffic problems.
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge had already begun to attract the imagination of filmmakers prior to its completion, and to this day continues to draw filmmakers towards it, in a way no other Australian architectural structure has consistently managed to do. (3) The continuous attraction of filmmakers over such an extended period has left a cinematic record that allows unique insights to be gained into how the Bridge was represented, from its earliest beginnings through to the Golden anniversary of its opening. (4) The complexity of meanings which have been generated around the Sydney Harbour Bridge are as apparent in film as they are in other mediums, and yet they differ, for entirely new meanings are generated due to the kinetic nature of the medium and the ability of film to represent the ways in which people interact with their physical environment. By examining some of the cinematic images of the Bridge up to the golden anniversary celebrations in 1982, I want to illustrate that not only is there a rich history of cinematic dialogue that has developed around the Bridge since its construction, but that very dialogue can act as an entry-point into discussions of modernity, place-making and the shifting basis of white Australian identity that cinematic representations were able to evoke and explore in complex ways.
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