- Title: CF522
- Date:1940s
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Summary:
10:42:43
Freight ships coming into harbour, ship flying the British Red Ensign flag in Melbourne Harbour. GVs onboard a ship - rigging and deck. LS of cargo ship sailing through the sea. Cranes loading cargo onto ships. Good shots of busy port. Sack of produce lowered onto deck of ships. Busy roads surrounding the port, steam / smoke rising the background, good industrial landscape. Sign for Mobile Handling Equipment Control. Man puts up a rota on a pin board. Small Motorised vehicles for moving cargo mill about the dock. Little forklifts help move crates. Cargo being moved around the docks.
10:45:35
Int warehouse, pallets and boxes being moved by forklift. Forklift being moved by a crane into a ship. Forklift working on ship deck. Van driving down towards warehouse carrying oil drums Special forklift with arms collects the oil drums from the side of the van to move them and stacks them in place on the pier. Good shot of hydraulics working on the forklift. Big timber yard with forklift trucks transporting materials. Crates lowered onto ships.
10:49:04
Coal is dropped from a digger claw onto large pile. Big red truck drives past. Good shots of smoking chimneys, telegraph poles, line of cranes in perspective - all good general engineering / industrial views. Good shot of forklift operator in cabin. Red trucks filled up with coal by tractors. Coal lift. Pan across a dock with timber in fg, black smoke coming from a boat. JCB digger pushes dirt during construction. Big cement mixer loading up wheelbarrow. Good shots through rigging of boats looking at crane loading. Nice LA shot of man getting into the cab of a truck, pulling away. Truck drives past with norwegian flag in BG.
10:54:11
Good shot of freight train travelling L-R towards camera. POV from cargo ship coming into port. Stacks of wood timber on the boats. Huge tree trunks moved around dock / store space. Trucks carrying lumber leave dock. Small train comes towards camera R-L lots of steam coming from train. Warehouse / hangar being built, construction workers sit on girders in the ceiling. Construction materials brought to site.
10:58:18-11:03:09:14
Nice shots of ‘heavy lift’ cranes, for specifically heavy freight. Shots of floating cranes on the water. Floating crane moves to side of ship. Indoor cranes in warehouses move along rafters. GVs heavy mechanized units on the harbour. Good shots of dock workers doing maintenance on machinery. Good shots of cranes in a line at sunset, ships sail away in sunset, very atmospheric smoke drifts across industrial skyline at dusk. - TYPE:Historical
- DATE:1940s
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- SOURCE:Filemaker
- Decade:
- Colour:Colour
- Keywords:SHIPPING, FREIGHT SHIP, OCEAN LINER, DOCKING, DRY DOCK, TRANSPORTATION, CARGO SHIP, UNLOADING CARGO, SHIP BUILDING
- Master Title:CF522
- Segment:2
- Sound:Sound
