Ballarat Tramway Museum
Film - Movie Film & Box, Kodak, 1960
... Trailing shot ahs the hospital in the background.
6:49 31 outbound, Drummond St Nth, approach and trailing shots, trees are in autumn colours.
7:04 12, inbound Drummond St Nth, with Macarthur St in the background, stopping to pick up a lady, approach and trailing shots and then entering the Mill St crossing loop.
7:53 14 outbound in Drummond St Nth, dropping a lady passenger off and then turning into Macarthur St and then tram going away.
8:37 View of overhead junction at View Point Jtn.
8:45 View of “Cars Stop Here” sign and pole sign “To City Only”
8:55 30 inbound in Wendouree Parade, stops to pick up passenger, and then a trailing shot of tram entering Macarthur St loop
9:37 View of “Cars Stop Here”, “End of Section” and timetable boards at Haddon St.
9:50 34, pausing at Haddon St and then proceeding towards depot – approach and trailing shots, with “Warning Oncoming Trams” sign in shot.
10:27 “Warning Oncoming Trams” sign
10:32 34 crossing 12 at the Martin Ave loop
10:48 39? ...Trailing shot ahs the hospital in the background.
6:49 31 outbound, Drummond St Nth, approach and trailing shots, trees are in autumn colours.
7:04 12, inbound Drummond St Nth, with Macarthur St in the background, stopping to pick up a lady, approach and trailing shots and then entering the Mill St crossing loop.
7:53 14 outbound in Drummond St Nth, dropping a lady passenger off and then turning into Macarthur St and then tram going away.
8:37 View of overhead junction at View Point Jtn.
8:45 View of “Cars Stop Here” sign and pole sign “To City Only”
8:55 30 inbound in Wendouree Parade, stops to pick up passenger, and then a trailing shot of tram entering Macarthur St loop
9:37 View of “Cars Stop Here”, “End of Section” and timetable boards at Haddon St.
9:50 34, pausing at Haddon St and then proceeding towards depot – approach and trailing shots, with “Warning Oncoming Trams” sign in shot.
10:27 “Warning Oncoming Trams” sign
10:32 34 crossing 12 at the Martin Ave loop
10:48 39? ...
Yields information in movie film format of Ballarat trams in 1960, how the system operated and was used by people., Yields information in movie film format of Ballarat trams in 1960, how the system operated and was used by people.Movie film - 8mm, approx. 17.5 mins, with leader strip on a plastic reel, within a black and white plastic box, titled "Ballarat No. 1. 1960" contained with a cardboard box, 'Tuscan Super 8 and Standard 8 Spool and Can' .
Has been transferred to DVD - see Reg item 4100 as Segment No. 1. Filmed and made by Ben Parle.
Also transferred to DVD by Rod Cook Oct. 2015, via Roger Greenwood for use in his DVD, "The City of Ballarat Trams, Gardens & Gold" of 2016. See Reg Item 6883.
Synopsis: based on time.
0:00 Starts with bogies cars crossing railway level crossing (34?, 39?)
0:30 SEC Logo
0:45 Ballarat Station sign and intro “Some City Scenes”
0:49 35 turning from Lydiard St Nth to Sturt St towards Grenville St with Commonwealth Bank in view. and then 42 returning
1:19 42 showing Mt Pleasant, turns from Sturt St into Lydiard St Nth
1:53 Tramway road works in Lydiard St Nth, near intersection with Mair St with Jelbart Road roller in use, starts with an SEC roadworks sign.
2:12 39 passing the works out bound to Lydiard St Nth.
2:46 Good view of the roller working before 35 arrives.
3:01 35 passing the works in bound with
3:29 14 crossing Lydiard St in Sturt St, towards Grenville St
3:47 Trams in City Loop
3:55 21 coming up the hill
4:04 31 entering Bridge St from Sturt St with Bucks Head Hotel in the background.
4:27 Overhead work at corner of Sturt and Lydiard, with view of the sign at the City terminus “Trams leave here for Sebastopol, Gardens, View Point.”
4:34 Passengers getting off and then onto 38, ex Lydiard St Nth at city terminus including a young lady wearing gloves and a wheeling a pram hurriedly the photographer. A number of other prams in the view as well as. The Conductor helps to unload the pram.
5:07 41 proceeding up Sturt St, appears to have just rained.
5:26 11 using the Dawson St crossover, with a motor car doing a U turn as well.
6:00 14 descending Sturt St towards the City, filmed at Dawson St.
6:11 Title “The Gardens via Drummond St North Line”
6:16 19 showing Victoria St, turning from Drummond St Nth into Sturt St.
6:28 30 inbound in Drummond St Nth, approach and trailing shots. Trailing shot ahs the hospital in the background.
6:49 31 outbound, Drummond St Nth, approach and trailing shots, trees are in autumn colours.
7:04 12, inbound Drummond St Nth, with Macarthur St in the background, stopping to pick up a lady, approach and trailing shots and then entering the Mill St crossing loop.
7:53 14 outbound in Drummond St Nth, dropping a lady passenger off and then turning into Macarthur St and then tram going away.
8:37 View of overhead junction at View Point Jtn.
8:45 View of “Cars Stop Here” sign and pole sign “To City Only”
8:55 30 inbound in Wendouree Parade, stops to pick up passenger, and then a trailing shot of tram entering Macarthur St loop
9:37 View of “Cars Stop Here”, “End of Section” and timetable boards at Haddon St.
9:50 34, pausing at Haddon St and then proceeding towards depot – approach and trailing shots, with “Warning Oncoming Trams” sign in shot.
10:27 “Warning Oncoming Trams” sign
10:32 34 crossing 12 at the Martin Ave loop
10:48 39? Wendouree Parade, near Barrett Ave, stopping and letting off passengers.
11:24 30 passing depot junction and then trailing shot of it entering Tram Sheds or Depot Loop and then proceeding towards the City.
12:11 Shot of the “Caution Beware of Trams” sign at the depot.
12:14 25 stopping at depot junction and then trailing shot of it going toward Forrest St.
12:47 12 passing Depot Junction, trailing shot.
13:07 Shot of :Electricity Supply Department, Ballarat Branch” sign at depot.
13:13 View of a destination showing “Depot” on a bogie tram
13:15 Title “Some Depot Scenes”
13:19 View of a trolley pole and then 13 leaving the depot through the gates, destination showing “View Point”.
13:54 View of trolley pole and then 32 stopping at the depot gates.
14:08 12 (Sunny view) running out onto Wendouree Parade and then a bogie tram approaching Depot Loop.
14:43 View of 42 running in with a single trucker behind in Wendouree Parade, and another single trucker running out.
15:02 Title “Some Scenes in the Gardens”
15:05 25 running through the Gardens, approach and trailing shots, near our Depot Junction.
15:55 View of “No Parking East of Loop” sign
15:59 View of overhead and then trackwork (with points removed), but overhead still in position at the Old Gardens Loop or Gardens South Loop and then 12 entering the loop from the south and then a trailing shot looking along the Parade.
16:33 View of “Cars Stop Here” and “End of Section” and then timetable boards at Gardens Loop.
16:55 View of 34 leaving the loop
17:14 Title “The End”Written labels giving title information on outside of box.trams, tramways, ballarat, sebastopol, lydiard st north, victoria st, mt pleasant, sturt st west
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