The most incredible engineering feat of its time and still is today.

My grandfather, Lesley Dick LIVINGSTONE, was one of the main construction engineers. Still standing today because it was made right from the word go. Hope to visit you one day soon.

a school parents dad is a painter for the bridge. He works for 12 months and paint the bridge once over only to repeat it again next year. It is amazing that the bridge was engineered well over the requirement of the day and continue to serve well into the 21st century.

As much as I love history it’s always something extra special when it’s about Australia. Thanks for sharing excellent little film.

When to Sydney and thus was the most magnifying building I've ever seen in my life like its so big and it just looks so good

I was born in Sydney. I see the harbour everyday. It still amazes me till this day... after 26 years

this most iconic bridge ever built i walked across this bridge I be looking forward to its 90th anniversary on 19th of March 2022

Who's watching this in 2023 - 24 ? Attendence here

While crossing daily to the bridge never think of the hurdles which was faced when they’re building it... Wonderful piece of History it is 👍

I still watch this video Even though it's from Australia I'm from the USA and I still watch it!

Bradfield surely has been a genius.....Happy Birthday Harbour Bridge

Calibration factor: The Firth of Forth took 54,000 tons of steel; 194,000 cubic yards of granite, stone, and concrete; 21,000 tons of cement; and almost seven million rivets to build. It was completed in 1890.

What a marvel of engineering, Dr Bradfield, was an absolute genius.

Yes it is all in the archives. You just need to know where to look.

Shame on the people that gave this a thumbs down

Yes the bridge was finally paid off in 1988. Tolls were presumably at least part of that payment.

What a great trip back in time, and wasn’t the music nostalgic.

Would have loved to witness the bridge being built

The greatest structured bridge in the British empire back in the day, still one of the greatest and most popular monument in the world, the world eyes turn to her on New years eve ;-)

The remainder of it's creator Dorman Long in Middlesbrough is set to be demolished. It's an outrage here. We're proud of Australia's Sydney Harbour Bridge 🌉

تبارك الله عليك الله يوفقك يارب 🙏🇲🇦🙏

I used to live in Sydney and now I live in Newcastle

Looking along the deck from underneath is like something out of Star Wars. Very futuristic.

Absolutely amazing ... the bridge climb is a must do for any visitors to Sydney 🇦🇺 Advance Australia

The narrator does not seem terribly excited about this wonder of manufacturing.

wonderful feature well done NFSA Films cheers

I checked-out the structure for this bridge while I was sitting underneath it for the New Year's Eve 2017 fireworks!Happy 2018!! :)

I was in Sydney for the 60th anniversary in 1992. The bridge was completely closed that day and a limited (but large) number of pedestrians were allowed on the roadway for the first time since the bridge opened. (There is a pedestrian walkway on one side, but on this day the actual road was open to pedestrians.) I got there a bit late and was told the bridge was "full" and no more pedestrians would be allowed. Naturally, I did what anyone else would do. I went over to the (unguarded) exit, stood there for a bit until it was clear, and walked in backwards briefly, before turning around. I still have many pictures from that day and also the Sydney 2000 Olympic flag they gave out with the original logo.

great shots of the masons.

Amazing, if only i was around in that era to see it built - even though i live in this era, i still probably would've loved (with my mindset) to see what it was like in the 1920s

I like the analogy of North Sydney to Brooklyn (NY, USA).

I don't know about the British engineering refered to in the film, Bradfield was bore in Sandgate Queensland now a Brisbane suburb, I think that qualifies him as an Australian engineer.

Very interesting. Really enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.

Love our Bridge.

Amazing

@GrenadierGuardsDmr The Bridge is 80 years old today. Happy Birthday!

Wow sydney looked buetiful

….and a thing of beauty!

Sort of... this is an extract from a document from the Powerhouse Museum.... "Lotteries and NSW government revenue: In NSW, lotteries have been established to fund specific causes, such as the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932) and the Sydney Opera House (1957). Today, government duty on all lotteries is paid directly into Consolidated Revenue."

@MUSOSFULLY I think the narrator is referring to the English company that one the tender to build the bridge Dorman Long. However you are right Bradfield was the overall designer and supervised the build.

Except for the narrator, whose concerns apparently were elsewhere, maybe on lunch, this was fascinating.

You'll never see anything like it anymore. It's all concrete and cables now.

My grandfather John Faulkner was killed working on the Harbour Bridge the steel plate fell against his leg which he lost and related to his early death

If I recall correctly... it was eventually paid for with the proceeds of the NSW Jackpot lotterty ticket sales.

So thankful that the Rudd Gillard government had nothing to do with this! What a mess that would have been!

Oh. Learn something new every day. Thanks for your response to my comment! I do recall a story in the news some years ago that the toll had finally finished paying for the bridge. Government spin maybe?

!WoW!

Designed, Engineered Manufactued in England and Convicts to assemble in Australia

God bless the poms the only ones had the balls to make it

We really do have Dr Bradfield to thank for the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Not only did he champion its concept and funding, he saw the Hell Gate Railway Bridge in New York in the 1920's (completed in 1916 and almost identical in design to the Sydney Harbour Bridge though smaller) and quickly changed the specification for a smillar design for Sydney. Had he not done so, the previously accepted design was a quite ugly and ordinary version of the suspension bridge.

Wow

5:49 Complete harbour bridge

@Seattlecarnut Lost in the mists of time. There are possibly two versions of this film with another narrator for an English audience. Or vice versa.

Spooky! It actually reappears further across the Harbour (right of screen) - before it actually disappears (left of screen)!! Have you discovered the Sydney Harbour Worm Hole? Or just the wonderful film trickery of the dissolve - albeit unusually performed?

I’m from where the steel came from to make it.

Steel to steel rest in peace to the 16 died making it.💐

steel came from Scunthorpe and was built by both Aussy and Scunthorpe builders i think it is on the bridge somewhere that the steel came from appleby frodingham steel works but unfortunately there were more than a few deaths during the building of the bridge.Oh exciting fact i live less than a mile from the steel works lol

6:14 Were Atlantis Cruises around in the thirties?

Right

Is this footage available for use under Creative Commons?

@FILMAUSTRALIA yes but even now there's still debate on who should be credited but Bradfield did win!

Wow keren

What's with all the downvotes?

Dear FilmA, Yes you're quite right. It wasn't until 1980 that the bottom of the harbour tax evaision scheme was discovered and then ended by legislation. . If only the archives of the FilmAustralia library had been researched the discovery of the schemem could have come sooner. . . Cheers. from, del-boy

I may be wrong but the narrator's comment at the end suggested that it was a British engineering feet, but i was of the opinion that John Bradfield was the designer/draftsman and engineer of the bridges construction?

@Seattlecarnut Unfortunately we do not know - any clues?

Watched in 2022

But this can't hope to match Auckland's Harbor Bridge huh

nice safety harness at 3:15... :\

any videos. construction of the tower's. 40+ years. later had. section of. West gate bridge. collapse. Under construction. I think.

How did you even find this

Do you know who designed it Dr. John Bob bradfield he was judging the design but by the way some people died building the harbor bridge l actually drawed the lovely design. Its great

Now there are bridges, tunnels, motorways yet it takes longer to get home.

@jezelf i know right? heaps of people died while making the bridge

Hi mrs Williams

The true age of bridge in the archives ,, you forgot to mention West gate bridge ,

omg it the titanic

Built from North Yorkshire Steel!!

If you think Sydney Harbour Bridge should be painted a different colour, check out "Golden Harbour Bridge" on KZfaq!

Rather have this than the silly opera house!!!! Opera house??? Who needs it!!!!!!

arivadetchi. Sydney.

Not one safety hat or vest etc and only 16 fatalities in 10 years build

Great Climb man! Keep up the vids, I recently did a climb up the Lloyds Building in London that was shown on the News. Videos on my channel if you want to check it out

...and of course no mention of the 'gate-crashing' of the opening ceremony by the New Guard fascist Frances de Groot who dashed up on horseback, pushing the Prime Minister aside and cut the ribbon with his cermonial sword declaring the bridge open in the name of 'decent citizens of NSW and His Maj. The King'.

DOn’t waste your time listening to him speaking. Here 1:50

The case of the disappearing yacht 6.00 5:56 Tonight on Murder, She Wrote.

bro its 2012 the bloks not even alive

looks old. 1932?? at least four five centuries. Old. atlantean Australis.

Umm, no. It was paid for by the toll paid for crossing it.

the pollution then was terrible were are the vegan protesters at lol

Cut the USB tools ⚒️ decline a metal sr blood 🩸 is that the sun ☀️ no heaven boat 🛥

Canberra is the capital not sydney

Umm sydney looks worse back then

Sydney. bridge is not the largest. it's ancient ,. and the other is find out on flat Earth British. it has a sister t ,,1922?? arivadetchi , Chao,,

Da voice is weird

Gay yachts 💀

arivadetchi. Sydney.

So thankful that the Rudd Gillard government had nothing to do with this! What a mess that would have been!