Children walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge prior to opening

'Nearly 60,000 school children are being given the privilege of crossing the Sydney Harbour Bridge before its opening' in March 1932.

Eight-year-old Kenneth Jones stands atop one of the arches (without any apparent safety precautions taken!) and speaks to camera: 'They look like ants down there.' 

Intertitle reads: 'Rain fails to damp ardor of school children as they stream across bridge on their special day'. 

From a Melbourne Herald Newsreel. This item is part of the Roger McKenzie collection.

Notes by Beth Taylor