Main Title: |
Commuting by cable [videocassette]. |
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Author: |
Association of Railway Enthusiasts
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Imprint: |
A.R.E. Video, 1988. |
Collation: |
1 videocassette (55 min.) : sd., b&w and col. |
Summary: |
Film assembled from a number of sources and includes the 1929 VFL Grand Final, the float parade to celebrate Melbourne's Centenary in 1934, and a cruise aboard the Hygeia from Port Melbourne to Queenscliff. Recollections by Neville Govett, an authority on the cable trams.A brilliant documentary about a vanished facet of Melbourne’s history – our cable trams. See rare archival film of the largest cable tramway system in the world, which operated from 1885 to 1940. |
Subject: |
Trams and tramways Greater Melbourne [Naarm] (Vic.) (Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Countries)
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Notes: |
April 92. VHS, Hi-fi. [AREV 3002] Cover title: Commuting by cable : marvellous Melbourne and it's cable trams between the two wars. Narrator: John Reid.
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