Significance

Yields information in movie film format of Ballarat trams in 1962, a enthusiast tour, how the system operated and was used by people., Yields information in movie film format of Ballarat trams in 1962, a enthusiast tour, how the system operated and was used by people.

Physical description

Movie film - 8mm, approx. 4.15mins, with green leader strip on a plastic reel, within a Kodachrome II colour movie cardboard box and addressed to B.J. Parle, Chatswood. Titled "Ballarat 1962"



Has been transferred to DVD - see Reg item 4100 as Segment No. 3. 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 - Colour film



Title "Ballarat 1962"



0:00 21 in Sturt St arriving City Centre tram stop from the west.

0:12 41 and another bogie car at City Centre tram stop, North side of Sturt St loading passengers

0:21 39 crosses Sturt St from Lydiard St Nth and pulls up at the tram stop in Sturt St.

0:55 39 leaves City centre and travels west along Sturt St – two sequences.

1:11 View from front of a single trucker, leaving Carlton St loop after crossing a bogie car and travelling along Wendouree Parade towards Gardens Loop

2:09 No. 20 in Gardens Loop and pan across to the Gardens Statuary pavilion with lots of flowers.

2:41 No. 20 leaving Gardens loop and heading north in Wendouree Parade.

2:54 Bogie tram in Wendouree Parade between depot and Gardens loop, southbound.

3:12 No. 32 leaving Victoria St terminus, with orphanage in the background, in bound, has a Trotting tonight sign on front of tram, and crossing the Eureka line rail bridge.

3:23 No. 20 in Bridge St, out bound, near Stones Corner

3:42 38 in bound from Mt Pleasant at Stones Corner, stops, lets of passengers and then proceeds along Bridge St into the City

4:15 end

Inscriptions & markings

Written labels giving title information on outside of box.