No, I'm not. The question would be what are you, with your reprehensible attitude and foul mouth. My city, and nation, are in the hasty process of being destroyed...as treacherous forces bring in enormous numbers of foreigners. There would be something serious wrong with me if I were not hurt and angered by this. It's my birthright to speak up about and against this. More of us are going to do so, no matter how awfully people like you insult us.
@WiseGuy02
5 жыл бұрын
Agreed, we're bringing in too many people. Infrastructure can't keep up. The roads are falling apart. And we're bringing in people from countries who's culture doesn't blend with ours, they don't even try to fit in and we make it easy for them not to.
@bobby58585
13 жыл бұрын
almost fell off my seat with laughter at the massage scene from nowhere
@Mercmad
5 жыл бұрын
It's ok to be gay in melbourne today.
@dipayanchakraborty4751
4 жыл бұрын
You ask any migrant of current generation about Australia they will say " Oh its a great nation, its multicultural , its the best country in the world." But a true migrant would try to understand the fall of Australia's Manufacfuring sector , car industry etc. A true migrant would love this country the same way he/she loves his/her mother. A true migrant will contribute and add good things to the society . A true migrant would miss the Old Australia. Mass immigration can be dangerous for a country as it can change the culture of a nation in the long run. Say no to immigration or pressurise the Govt. to slow the process down. Love from India. To all the Grand mas , Grand pas , uncles and aunts out there :" I really understand the pain , the country is no more the same . Politicians are playing a great rule you know. Hope one day honest true blue Aussies will join the party and work for the people. Love from India..Namaste"
@stevetarrant3898
5 жыл бұрын
Wow when I was born
@adrianjackson2696
11 жыл бұрын
I did not watch Prisioner much but the blonde girls is definitely an actress I have seen on Aussie TV. She would be nearly 70 now as would her "boyfriend"
@tefllife2024
5 жыл бұрын
Yes the officer who played Mrs Morris. (Elspeth Ballantyne)
@fretboardmaster70
6 жыл бұрын
It’s Meg the Prison guard from PRISONER
@tefllife2024
5 жыл бұрын
Yep. It's Margaret "Meg" Morris
@paulwilliams7099
7 жыл бұрын
Wow we used to make things in Australia!!!
@Denidrakes69
5 жыл бұрын
It was after the war. Munitions factories became car manufacturers.
@Dangermouse2256
4 жыл бұрын
Yes ! And we should have supported our local industries. I for one always bought Aussie made - including cars...
@bradwilliams1691
3 жыл бұрын
These days if I actually find anything that's stamped Made in Australia - I ask my wife, "how did that happen"?
@Clarrisani
6 жыл бұрын
Melbourne was a much prettier town then. Before the great demolition craze in the 60s where all the heritage buildings had a date with Whelan the Wrecker. Not to mention nearly all the jobs shown are now automated or gone.
@fordlandau
5 жыл бұрын
Clarrisani or jobs gone. No more Holden.
@BrassLock
5 жыл бұрын
I think Melbourne survived far better than Perth. There's still loads of heritage buildings and those from the Federation period standing in the city. I recognize several in the first few minutes.
@johnsmith-cv1lp
5 жыл бұрын
Whelan the Wrecker .OMG i havent heard that since i was ten i remember their ads everywhere as a child in Melbourne
@OrnumCR
5 жыл бұрын
Cannot remember the last time I saw two elegantly attired good looking gents riding horseback in tall boots and blazers in central Melbourne.....wait a minute...make that never.... The women all look elegant and the men are all well dressed by today’s standards. The city has changed markedly from 1966....many of the cars shown are Australian made or British or North American in origin and daily life looks a whole lot simpler. Actually this is the Australia I remember in the 1970’s as a kid. Very different experience today....
@bobmarshall3700
5 жыл бұрын
Poofters!
@Mercmad
5 жыл бұрын
Even the many VW's depicted were actually made in Australia,the engines etc were even made in Victoria .
@mattl1962
5 жыл бұрын
Those guys at the pub having a beer with lunch weren't dressed 'fancy' one even had a tattoo - that would have been sacrelige back then. Need a working class perspective.
@thekienator
5 жыл бұрын
I had just passed my driving license test in 1970 !
@grahamnewton3727
10 жыл бұрын
Melbourne has lost its magic! Now look at it today. ugly high rise apartments everywhere, congestion, nutcases everywhere and so expensive.
@jackcambrian
10 жыл бұрын
I'll bet people said the exact same thing in 1966.
@indeed7289
10 жыл бұрын
you know Melbourne is regarded as one of the most Modern and Futuristic looking cities in the world right?
@madamedellaporte4214
8 жыл бұрын
+R L they didn't actually
@williamwallace3780
7 жыл бұрын
Modern architecture = let's make a cheap box and put a bunch of ugly crap all over it.
@nicolettafourikis927
6 жыл бұрын
Yes now all modern cities look the same! I hate the new architecture of today! They knocked back period homes & heritage buildings to build crappy glass buildings! Globalization = loosing our identity! Every city looks the same except for some famous land marks!
@hannahkate7538
6 жыл бұрын
No one in the comments seems to recognise the fact that the government was in control of these films meaning they are not reality even for the 1960’s because this is what they wanted people Melbourne was like.
@NFSAFilms
6 жыл бұрын
Yes Hannah, these are government propaganda films made for a specific purpose and portray an idealised view of Australia.
@hannahkate7538
6 жыл бұрын
NFSA Films Better said than I, thanks for replying!
@NFSAFilms
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Hannah, for taking an interest in our film history.
@margaretcumingdavies497
5 жыл бұрын
@@NFSAFilms The girlfriend was an actress, so he was probably an actor. All very cosy and nice.
@neriksen
5 жыл бұрын
Hannah Kate Mills WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. ..... I am from this time and life was so much simpler with a job for everybody on every corner and no fucking Sunday trading. Both my wife and I loved this time. Police were respected. We were happy with all aspects of life. We had what we needed. Never ever heard of the word stress. We ate healthy, no plastic bags, we had time for our family and our friends. Oh, and the actress sitting next to the driver. We all did this. My wife had a HR Premier but I had a Ford with a bench seat. My family is of Scandinavian decent and my wife of European decent. Both families Catholic, both families respectful of those around us. We knew all our neighbours, in fact we all had gates in the backyards to each other’s property. We cared for our elderly. They lived at home with us . They had much to offer and we listened to them willingly and honestly. I’m glad, I’m proud to be of this time. I was proud to be an Australian.
@glenmcmurtrie7359
8 жыл бұрын
Wow! Melbourne last time the Saints won a premiership!
@colinfield981
5 жыл бұрын
Glen McMurtrie once too often and molly fainted and missed the last 5 minutes ha ha
@bobmarshall3700
5 жыл бұрын
Football.... Who cares?
@bradwilliams1691
3 жыл бұрын
I believe that the opening video was actually the 1958 grand final between Melbourne and Collingwood. Ahhhhhhhhhh - the sight & sound of Magpie tears watering the MCG turf...............again.
@cx42control
6 жыл бұрын
Now this was when Melbourne WAS the worlds most livable city. I was 19 years old. I know...
@KL2010
5 жыл бұрын
I was 12 in 1966 and never realised I was living in utopia. Moved to WA in 1974 and never been back.
@Kwanglebeh
5 жыл бұрын
The shops closed at 5pm weekdays, noon on Saturdays and the place was like a ghost town on Sundays.Used car lots selling pieces of junk repaired with fiberglass and greased over brown paper while more than 1000 people were killed in car crashes every year. Of course the inner city slums are whitewashed out this piece.
@silvervalleystudios2486
5 жыл бұрын
@@Kwanglebeh Yeah. I grew up in the 80s and I remember Collingwood, Richmond, Fitzroy and Clifton Hill being drug riddled shit holes.
@mattl1962
5 жыл бұрын
Just like Auckland, New Zealand except the only non english speaking migrants were only Polynesians and Asians. Except we got rid of trams in the 1970s for a crap underfunded, under-utilised, and porrly planned out public transport system and basically everyone uses their own car to drive in the city, causing massive delays everyday for short drives everywhere.
@mattl1962
5 жыл бұрын
The city was also full on ghettos until 1980s when they started demolishing them to rebuild fancy apartments and gentrification of the Polynesian homes came into full effect in the 1990s.
@bradgotch
10 жыл бұрын
So many split screen Kombis! Wish I could get one now for under 30 grand.
@TerryJonesPrinterRepairs
5 жыл бұрын
That grey kombi that repeatedly showed up at the end of several scenes kinda reminded me of that Stephen King horror movie
@retrothingz
5 жыл бұрын
I remember it well. Melbourne was a beautiful, gracious city unlike today where it's become a chronically over crowded, dangerous mess.
@frag8570
5 жыл бұрын
@i i He was talking about Melbourne you dumb fuck
@Harry_G89
11 ай бұрын
Far too overcrowded and the traffic is unbelievable!!
@newellgirl
12 жыл бұрын
love it..no leaf blowers..no GST..no mobile phones...proper solid cars (Holdens) cool neon signs..Conductors..no over-development..pure footy and only fan banners on the fence...Blue Harris trains..paper bags..smart clothes..where did it all go horribly wrong! this is the Melbourne i miss..please Apple invent the time machine i want Out!
@KL2010
5 жыл бұрын
Steve Jobs *DID* invent a time machine, it's why we don't see him any more.
@jaydentownsend5402
6 жыл бұрын
I came for these documentaries but I stayed for the comment section. The spice of life some may refer to it as.
@RiffRaffMama.
5 жыл бұрын
The comments section of any video is almost always more entertaining. Plus it has the benefit of showing you which bits to cut to to save you watching the whole video.
@jaydentownsend5402
5 жыл бұрын
@@RiffRaffMama. So true peace my dude.
@crocodile2006
12 жыл бұрын
What was the stabbing rate in Melbourne before "multiculturalism"
@itakeyourphoto
9 жыл бұрын
that was a nice look back in time. I still remember most of it
@therestorationofdrwho1865
8 жыл бұрын
Bless you. I wish I was born in that era. Makes me mad that I wasn't. I get so angry about it!
@itakeyourphoto
8 жыл бұрын
+The Restoration of Dr Who Thanks to your reply I just watched it again! Some much that I remember so well. Dont be angry! Today in 40 years time will look just as amazing to you.
@therestorationofdrwho1865
8 жыл бұрын
Haha I understand that, it's just that so many amazing things that I wanted to witness happened in those times. Girls were also much prettier XD I just really prefer those times as people got out a lot more and technology hadn't taken over.
@therestorationofdrwho1865
8 жыл бұрын
And overall, everything just seemed more sophisticated and difficult. I prefer the challenge and hard work involved in most things.
@meerkat1226
8 жыл бұрын
+itakeyourphoto Such class in those days
@paulcooper3463
7 жыл бұрын
Can i crawl through the screen and go back it was much better then.
@viviekazanili1077
6 жыл бұрын
Lol
@bboucharde
5 жыл бұрын
Paul, Get in line, mate!
@MedusasSnakePit
5 жыл бұрын
Wish you would go back
@tiger832
5 жыл бұрын
Some politician looked at this paradise and thought we need more gangs.
@tiger832
5 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't even know where to start with the Lebanese, what an absolute disaster that decision is.
@akpstar6331
5 жыл бұрын
@Lats Niebling Your problems are a few arabs and blavks ? Dude australia is full of chinese indians fuckin up your country you stupid fat pig
@timpriddy73
9 жыл бұрын
A man, woman and his holden..........
@stuartfarrow2338
5 жыл бұрын
Holden is as Australian as Coca Cola
@DiHandley
5 жыл бұрын
Sadly “progress” does not make things better, only more complicated. I really do think that we are all heading in the wrong direction.
@volksdeutschewaffenss9670
6 жыл бұрын
those were the days, no multicultural crap, all immigrants coming here wanted to and became aussies, we had no home invasions, no car jackings ,now its too dangerous to walk the streets alone at night in melbourne, chinese developers buying and bulldozing houses for apartments for chinese buyers, young australians can no longer afford a home with a back yard for kids to play in, immigration needs to stop for our children's sake or else they will be left with overcrowding slums like hongkong not the australia my father fought ww2 for, no middle class any more just rich and poor cashed up asians buying up all shops , homes driving house prices through the roof, it needs to stop
@gregfowler957
5 жыл бұрын
The UK is horrible place aswell now violent drunks and gangs its worldwide I think
@no-body-22
5 жыл бұрын
@Manu Good one.
@daninthelionsden
5 жыл бұрын
@Manu Australian is a European concept and word, the indigenous people had no shared identity or concept of a United Australia so European Australians are fair dinkum to refer to themselves as Australians.
@buzzyb12000
10 жыл бұрын
did anybody relise who the girl was in this snippet, it was Meg Ryan fron the 1980's series Prisoner, and I really enjoyed this snippet of Life in Melbourne in the 60's when everbody was happy and friendly to one another and Henry Bolte was the States Premier.
@tefllife2024
5 жыл бұрын
Meg Morris not Ryan.
@Kwanglebeh
5 жыл бұрын
I noticed she was a TV actor.
@DEATHSTARER
5 жыл бұрын
Shane Pacholli A very young Elspeth Ballantyne.
@phoneticau
5 жыл бұрын
People back then had jobs happy attitudes and sense of optimism, unlike today
@queenr6423
5 жыл бұрын
Well ignorance is bliss they didn’t know not a damn thing. They didn’t probably even know how babies are made inside of the woman half of them. 😂🤯bunch of morons living in bliss
@WiseGuy02
5 жыл бұрын
And no African gangs. Oops forgot, there are no gangs in Melbourne.
@JF-xm6tu
5 жыл бұрын
@@WiseGuy02 shhh careful or the thought police will come after you
@TheNomad2727
6 жыл бұрын
.... everybody is commenting their observations like "there were no Asians, Indians" etc etc.... what I find more interesting is there were no fat people.....
@Mercmad
5 жыл бұрын
Plenty of them in the shots of the wharfies pretending to load the wool though.
@ryack6355
5 жыл бұрын
Let me put it this way, there weren’t any fat Indians...haha
@DEATHSTARER
5 жыл бұрын
Damon K Until Maccas arrived in 1968
@ruperthazel9198
5 жыл бұрын
Some of the bad things that at this time was the destruction of the Victorian Architecture. Also, those soviet looking public high rises were built then, now they are filled with south Sudanese and Muslims.
@bigjegg5436
5 жыл бұрын
It's progress though, some of those were buildings were beyond repair.
@NoosaHeads
5 жыл бұрын
Was a really beautiful place. Doesn't look like that anymore. Very sad.
@leongt1954
3 жыл бұрын
Yes it was really like that I remember my brother taking me to the movies in the 60's but now it turned to shit and not safe to walk the streets after dark by yourself
@allegra0
2 ай бұрын
The old city of beauty is gone.
@OutbackAl
13 жыл бұрын
The Golden era when Melbourne was full of.....well.....OZZIES!
@frag8570
5 жыл бұрын
@Jo Lisa Dukarić bitch would you fuck off. Commenting all over the place. Go live in Serbia then if you don't like it here.
@johnpro2847
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, I was there ..born East Melbourne . Doncaster was mainly apple orchards back in the early days . Loved the old green tramway buses with the driver sitting out the front. I eventually left in 2003 and travelled north to warmer climes. Love these old nostalgic films .Thanks for posting.
@NFSAFilms
5 жыл бұрын
Great, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for commenting.
@spiralpython1989
5 жыл бұрын
Holy guacamole: this was made in my birth city, in my birth year. It is simultaneously familiar and completely alien. Some familiar landmarks, along with seriously problematic view of the society of the time. I miss the Melbourne of my youth, especially when confronted with the excesses of contemporary Melbourne life.... but I am very glad it’s no longer like this. The homogeneity is scary- but it’s sweet to watch the city light up, to see empty city streets, that these days never stop...
@Tony_P
5 жыл бұрын
A simpler time , a time before the KZitem argument section. :D
@xploit811
5 жыл бұрын
And now Melbourne has become Shanghai in disguise.
@originaluddite
5 жыл бұрын
Something like this should be made every decade for every major city in the world.
@northseabrent
7 жыл бұрын
I used to get the number tram to RMIT in 1973 when I studied engineering, Melbourne has changed so much in 44 years.
@colinfield981
5 жыл бұрын
North Sea Brent 64 for me
@mr.magister5531
12 жыл бұрын
Melbourne when it was safe to walk the streets, i know there is a naive innocence to it all, but in some respects our isolation from the rest of the world was to our benefit. I grew up as a kid at this time, went to high school in the 70's, went out and went wild in the 80's and i have watched Melbourne change dramatically in that time. I can't say in all honesty it's been for the best. Melbourne was a wonderful place, for the first time in my life i am not so sure these days..
@KL2010
5 жыл бұрын
I was 12 in 1966 and left Melbourne in 1974 to work in WA. My end-plan had always been to return to Melbourne after retiring where (dwindling) family all lived. But I retired almost 10 years ago now and have been subscribing to a Facebook Group called 'Protect Victoria'. What I have seen happening in Melbourne over the past 4-5 years via this group is very disturbing. And I hate to admit it, but the chances of my pulling up stakes now and moving back east are next to zero unless someone can convince me otherwise.
@justcallingitasitis7274
5 жыл бұрын
@Jo Lisa Dukarić Good, fuck off & don't even think of coming back
@NFSAFilms
11 жыл бұрын
The grey car the young man is driving is an EK Holden. Made in Australia from 1961 - 1962.
@jimmaxwell1094
5 жыл бұрын
Make Australia great again
@jackthelad9933
5 жыл бұрын
I couldn't live back then. That god-awful background music would kill me.
@joannedavis1991
5 жыл бұрын
Jack TheLad LOL! Better than today’s RAP music!
@bigsiman
12 жыл бұрын
The true Melbourne - the beautiful city of my childhood. Love those wide streets, W trams and the Foys Santa. And definitely the prettiest woman ever to walk out of a block of high-rise flats :-)
@francisp8633
6 жыл бұрын
There were no plastic bags back then. People had their own reusable bags, the shop gave paper bags, or they just carried their stuff with no packaging... and people are complaining about Coles, Woolies and IGA banning plastic bags. People need to get over it.
@paulohara8967
5 жыл бұрын
The wheel has turned a full circle.
@bobmarshall3700
5 жыл бұрын
Sorry Francis but you need to learn the truth! The the Government/governments got paid off by the bin liner industry to denounce plastic bags as an "environmental initiative". The whole thing has always been about making people pay for plastic bags to put their garbage in instead of getting them for free from supermarkets! The only difference is that there are no fewer bags in landfill or the ocean, it's just that now the 'sucked in' public is paying for them and thinking they have done a wonderful job!
@Mercmad
5 жыл бұрын
I worked in a supermarket after school around then. We used to pack the customers goods in paper bags and wrap all frozen stuff in news paper. You soon got pretty good at it because the check out lady would growl you ... ha ha .
@ridef0rlife
5 жыл бұрын
Now an overpopulated mess
@harrisionstan3773
5 жыл бұрын
The chap at 13.14 who asked for a topless massage might have been disappointed. Or not.
@NFSAFilms
11 жыл бұрын
Yes you're right, that's Meg. Who would have thought she would end up a screw?
@perihelion7445
6 жыл бұрын
That's riiiiight... I knew I'd seen her face before when watching this.. 😃😃😃
@mickcarson8504
5 жыл бұрын
Who is Meg?
@trk1973
5 жыл бұрын
@@mickcarson8504 Elspeth Ballantyne who played Meg Morris/Jackson on Prisoner
@margaretcumingdavies497
5 жыл бұрын
Don't kid yourselves that this era was perfect. The rules and regulations were pretty conservative. It was pre plastic bags. That was a good bit. There were some great cars. VW's, Kombi's. It all looks lovely, but, it was not all lovely. It was simpler: the rules were not. And don't forget the Vietnam war. All the way with LBJ. Pot luck if you were called up or not, and had to go..
@reginaldcrapo132
5 жыл бұрын
Just be quiet, woman. This was clearly much much better.
@AWAradiola
9 жыл бұрын
Was that a young Meg from 'Prisoner' ? (Elspeth Ballantyne)?
@saxongreen78
8 жыл бұрын
+AWA Radiola I reckon that's her alright.
@captainnuzza
8 жыл бұрын
+AWA Radiola I was thinking the same thing
@AWAradiola
8 жыл бұрын
Very pretty!
@PeterAndersons
8 жыл бұрын
+AWA Radiola Yep, it has to be her... look at google images and there are several images of her when younger... although she does have a sister...
@AWAradiola
8 жыл бұрын
+Peter Anderson I subscribed to you. What a fantastic channel you have and you live in Melbourne too!
@ariesred777
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks.Lovely to watch.The clothes were fairly sedate,soft pastel colours.Just at the turning point of Beatlemania and psychedelic revolution.Life was good back then.
@林蒲田
5 жыл бұрын
I love Melbourne. And I wish I could date back to live in those days full of like the vintage style.
@lukegreenwood3750
6 жыл бұрын
2:25 my god never seen the city so empty
@soniasm81
5 жыл бұрын
The time when there was no Sunday trading..
@alansmithee1723
11 жыл бұрын
What a surreal, amazing experience seeing old Melbourne exactly as I remembered it! The absence of dialogue made it so much better than it would have been with a monotonous voiceover. Thanks a million, FILMAUSTRALIA.
@daninthelionsden
5 жыл бұрын
People today commonly claim the European Australians live off of stolen wealth, yet clearly as this video shows Australians earned their wealth through being a industrious, hardworking and upright people.
@yurilemming4130
5 жыл бұрын
Dan Kalpana I've been in business in Melbourne from 1969 to now on the GC & have never witnessed grafts, bribes nor blackmail in business that is saying Australians have always dealt honestly & equally in my experience.
@MedusasSnakePit
5 жыл бұрын
Lol this video shows propaganda not real life lol
@daninthelionsden
5 жыл бұрын
@@MedusasSnakePit an easy assumption but it filmed real life australia and the very systems of technology and society that facilitated this film are a credit to the Aussies
@erroneouscode
5 жыл бұрын
@@MedusasSnakePit Was you there?
@MedusasSnakePit
5 жыл бұрын
Erroneous Code was you there?
@wingi7722
5 жыл бұрын
Wow! Red Motors by the hundreds! The 186 was one of the best in line sixes ever produced. My Dad had the 1970 Holden Kingswood with a 186. Loved the rest of the video too. The fashions had true style back then and the cuts actually fitted.
@thekienator
5 жыл бұрын
In 1970, my father bought a FALCON FUTURA ; in 1974, a Holden wagon - no disc brakes in those days, but in 1970, an appallingly bad record number of deaths in car crashes - some aspects of life, such as motor vehicle & road safety, are considerably improved
@bourbonslurpee
5 жыл бұрын
i worked in the dandenong GM plant in the 80s and 90s the last car to come off the line was a red toyota corolla. lol ive still got the commemeorative drink coasters
@BradGrassforest
5 жыл бұрын
I am a huge fan of Melbourne. My favorite city in the world. I used to live there 2009 for few months. Now I'm back in Estonia and I miss this city almost every day:(
@scottmorrison466
5 жыл бұрын
mukijatuki You are very lucky to live in a white country.
@scottmorrison466
5 жыл бұрын
trumbettier Why. 🤔 Because I don't agree with multiculturalism. 🐷
@justcallingitasitis7274
5 жыл бұрын
@@trumbettier9252 You're a fuckwit
@Scotty-P
12 жыл бұрын
INDEED! It's high time we took our cities, our nation, and our future, BACK!!!
@KL2010
5 жыл бұрын
But *HOW* ?
@adrianjackson2696
5 жыл бұрын
The Europeans stopped coming much less in the 1970's. Figures in the media in 2019 say that across Australia the British are still the largest immigrant group however in Melbourne its the Indians, Sydney the Chinese and Brisbane New Zealanders who top the most numerous groups.
@m3ekag
12 жыл бұрын
3.30 FB Holden, had one of those, also Beetle bug too, Melbourne was my city, 6pm closing and the city just died as everyone left for the suburbs.
@NumberNeverLie
7 жыл бұрын
wow, drivers were a lot less aggressive back then!
@joehiggs100
10 жыл бұрын
The whole series is wonderful. It looks just like communist stuff from the same time - or Mr Hulot..no-one speaks on the soundtrack, jazz-a-tronic music. Everywhere a paradise of serious workers with modern architecture.
@neriksen
5 жыл бұрын
Bob Jones ah but the difference is that we were happy to work and not stress over what someone else thought of us. Look at the damage social media has done. We had lives, not reality rubbish. The Reds were an enemy 15000 kms away.
@reginaldcrapo132
5 жыл бұрын
You say "communist stuff from the same time" but I am guessing you do not have a link.
@Mercmad
5 жыл бұрын
@@neriksen Or in Victorias case, the Painters and Dockers and Bob Hawke.
@mattl1962
5 жыл бұрын
@@Mercmad they were good
@AUDIONOIR100
5 жыл бұрын
No gangs!!!!! Respectful citizens! What planet is this?
@Kwanglebeh
5 жыл бұрын
Except for bodgies and widgies,a bit later sharps and skins with some rockers and surfies thrown in. There's always been gangs in Melbourne.
@paulbata6459
5 жыл бұрын
melbourne cbd = international students
@TheAxelay
6 жыл бұрын
When I watch this in 2018, I get a range of emotions from being glad and happy to see this kind of utopia to anger in knowing that my Generation and future ones after it will never ever know this type of life/security to overall sadness in the end and some emptiness in how melbourne is now?! Imagine that, going to a factory to work?! Horse back riding?! Of course this is an ad though and I make it an addiction of mine to learn on how life was back in those times only to criticise the pitfalls from now into the future and you know it won't get any better but worse sadly..It's a bad addiction watching these clips but a thankful one
@NFSAFilms
6 жыл бұрын
Glad to be of service - does that make us your pusher?
@mimipavlovsky
5 жыл бұрын
It's one of those things too, were it has it's pros and CONS. I personally would honestly give my collections of Archie Comics (of course the really old ones) to spend a day or a week, just to take in the openess,the beautiful old buildings,unfortunately long gone as concrete blocks were being put up, it actually sadly had started by then. It was a slower paced life for most. Not all food was bad, just cooked not great by most, but it was fresh!!! But unfortunately it was a very White Australia although my parents had been living here for a couple of years by then from Hungary, We fortunately didn't get too much racial crap, probably as we lived in St. Kilda. But even here you see a lot of the European Immigrants working Markets and Factories. It was a tad different for Asians, and Indians. Also Women still struggled that didn't want to go down the Traditional and expected Path. Homosexuality was still illegal and A lot of Animal issues were fobbed off. And it just was a Patriarchal society... But still there is something that makes me want to be there. I was lucky and was a child of the 70's and that I'm so grateful for. But still a day, even just a day... 😍
@Tiqerboy
6 жыл бұрын
The scene with live chickens followed directly by men eating chicken is probably more than what vegetarians can handle.
@NFSAFilms
6 жыл бұрын
A hidden message by the film makers?
@EmmaAppleBerry
5 жыл бұрын
Nah im good with it. Its good to see meat associated with the actual animal and not a fucking plastic wrapped pre cut crap quality thing.
@russiandiva
8 жыл бұрын
How does it still look more advanced than some parts of the world today (rural China, Russia etc.)
@reginaldcrapo132
5 жыл бұрын
What are you taking about; China, Russia? Try Rwanda, Somalia. Women! Unbelievable. 🤦♂️
@bigglesflysagain1749
7 жыл бұрын
2.43.....Italian and Greek and German on the sign.....and there was grousing, even then, about OZ being 'overrun'....
@Piratebreadstick
5 жыл бұрын
I think for the better, actually. Who do you think civilised Europe 2000 years ago you Moron. Heard of the Romans??
@ryack6355
5 жыл бұрын
BIGGLES flys again In several decades white people are going to be a minority in Australia. I think people have justified concerns. You obviously don’t understand that.
@silvervalleystudios2486
5 жыл бұрын
Theres a difference. Those people actually made a contribution to this country.
@lucy_marion
8 жыл бұрын
Hello. My name is Lucy and I am a Film Student at RMIT. I was wondering if there was any means by which I could get permission to use this footage and/or the 'Life in Australia: Geelong' within my current uni project? Thanks.
@NFSAFilms
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucy Marion Hi Lucy, thanks for the comment. Yes there may be a way for you to use this footage as part of your studies under this scheme from the NFSA www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/collection-enquiries/take-three/ Have a look and let me know if that is not what you're after. Good luck. Richard
@lucy_marion
8 жыл бұрын
+NFSA Films Hi Richard! I am definitely eligible for this. Could you tell me how long it might take to process an application? There is a cost section but I'm not sure if that applies to me. This is just for an assignment at school, non-profit! I would only need approximately 60 seconds of footage over all, and would be happy to use the KZitem posted quality version. Thank you for your help!
@NFSAFilms
8 жыл бұрын
+Lucy Marion Hi Lucy please contact me at richard.carter@nfsa.gov.au to discuss details. Thanks.
@Dangermouse2256
4 жыл бұрын
To all Australians, always please choose Australian made products over imported products .By so doing you are supporting all and our children’s future. Economic prosperity has always been governed by industrial output. No economy will survive based on “service” and Covid has made us acutely aware of this fact. The only country that survived the EU economic meltdown = Germany. Why ? Manufacturing!
@daijones101
10 жыл бұрын
We were in a very affluent period with full employment and low inflation but the makers of this film only show what they want you to see which is predictable but misses so much. By 1966 there were sharpies in Melbourne and they've shown nothing of the youth culture.
@daijones101
10 жыл бұрын
Promotional film not showing anything nasty and devoid of real life. Pop music in 1966 was incredible. No reference to that . Good little worker ants performing as they should.
@danrotman555
10 жыл бұрын
Dai Jones It seems like you didn't make it to the end. Nice little sequence in 'nightclub' with reel to reel player.
@NFSAFilms
11 жыл бұрын
Hi tri400. Widescreen as it is usually referred to today is what is known as 16:9 aspect ratio. This film which was shot on 35mm film is in an aspect ratio of 4:3. There were many ways of using 35mm film to obtain various aspect ratios but this was pretty much the standard. Widescreen 16:9 really is more relevant when you are talking about modern video and digital formats. Thanks for watching.
@Procharged32
5 жыл бұрын
Cant walk any where in Melbourne now, violent city where theres no consequences for the guilty.
@gordoncowan50
5 жыл бұрын
I was showed this film before I migrated. The reality was better than the movie.
@NFSAFilms
5 жыл бұрын
Wow, an actual intended audience member.
@gyobfan22
3 жыл бұрын
Haha nice to see Meg Jackson/Morris having fun before she got the prison officer job at Wentworth.
@Kajifox
11 жыл бұрын
What, like all the immigrants working on the docks, or at the markets, or in the Holden plant in this film? Australia's always been a migrant country.
@NFSAFilms
13 жыл бұрын
@Conniptions886 Yes well spotted. The production dates were usually given at the completion of the production which in this case was '66 even though production may have started much earlier. It's also possible that some material was used from other productions. CFU / Film Australia were great cannibals of their own material. Thanks for the detail.
@agochoa
5 жыл бұрын
Seems like paradise compared to what it is now.
@Lofyne
3 жыл бұрын
I just watched the 4K version, and it looked great. Would the NFSA ever consider stabilising any of the footage in these old films? Nothing major, but I just notice the occasional slight jitter that I know would benefit greatly from being stabilised in a program like DaVinci Resolve. Or even to improve slightly wobbly camera pans. Simple fixes I’m sure they would have used when making these films if the technology were available then.
@NFSAFilms
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your insightful comments Lofyne. Generally we do as little as possible to change the film from it's original production values. There is much debate about this sort of "intervention" in archival / preservation circles. Stabilisation is great and can be very useful although there is usually some sort of image trade off when using it. We appreciate your feedback and welcome to the world of archival film presentation conundrums. Maybe especially relevant in this post-truth, deepfake world!
@adrianjackson2696
11 жыл бұрын
The dance a "Go Go" was quaint at the end and probably finishing very late at 11 pm before that last train at midnight departed for the suburbs. Note they were drinking coffee not booze too. Full of cleanness and niceness as Dame Edna Everage would say
@MelbourneHonky
7 жыл бұрын
White Australian policy
@qqq2211
11 жыл бұрын
Amazing footage just seeing what life was like in Melbourne in the 60's and the quality of the film fantastic
@craigmc3614
6 жыл бұрын
I think that's Elspeth Ballantyne from Prisoner at 18:07 isn't it?
@NFSAFilms
6 жыл бұрын
Yes - Meg.
@tefllife2024
5 жыл бұрын
Yes it's Mrs Margaret Morris from the Wentworth Detention Centre!!!!
@plaidshirt9955
5 жыл бұрын
"Take a shot every time you see a VW beetle" *dies of alcohol poisoning*
@NFSAFilms
12 жыл бұрын
@scotv Thanks. Some others have voice overs too but not all of that series does - not sure why. Couple more to post in that series as well.
@jamesmcardle4367
11 жыл бұрын
It's now a foreign land!
@MedusasSnakePit
5 жыл бұрын
You’re a bloody foreigner
@reginaldcrapo132
5 жыл бұрын
@Jo Lisa Dukarić No, they were not. They were visitors who built homes for themselves and their families where previously there had been nothing. There are still large areas of wilderness throughout the world -- to any of which you are only too welcome to go.
@JaseTheHACK
13 жыл бұрын
Wow. I would love to remake this film shot for shot in 21st century Melbourne.
@sprig3432
6 жыл бұрын
ahh the white people in those days
@nevermore380
8 жыл бұрын
I could be going crazy, but is the woman in the car at 4:09 Meg Jackson from Prisoner?!
@NFSAFilms
8 жыл бұрын
+James Cannon Good news..... You're not crazy that is indeed Meg - before she worked at Wentworth.
@nevermore380
8 жыл бұрын
+NFSA Films wow. she was very pretty. it's kind of hilarious though, the thought of her and that guy acting like a couple for this. How awkward. An acting job is an acting job I suppose lol
@NFSAFilms
8 жыл бұрын
+James Cannon Yes, mild by today's "actor awkwardness" standards though.
@nevermore380
8 жыл бұрын
Do you know how successful these films were at attracting migrants? I'm curious. I imagine especially to Brits living in dreary weather with cramped housing, the version of Aussie life as presented in these films would be VERY appealing.
@NFSAFilms
8 жыл бұрын
+James Cannon I don't know if they were successful - or if they were intended as a persuasion tool or perhaps as a primer of what to expect. Obviously there was a big push on to get British and European migrants here and these films were part of that. As you suggest the sunny propaganda presented in these films would have compared favorably with the rather bleak UK existence of the time. Australia is presented as just like Britain, but warmer. We have a much later film called No Milk No Honey which interviews British immigrants and some of them were less than impressed with what they found here.
@jasoncarpp7742
11 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! Thanks for posting. I intend to visit Australia one of these days.
@reticulan5
12 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this,how simple and happy life was.The fact that Film Australia went to the trouble to capture this and shoot it like a professional movie.The fact that it was shot in color was a bonus.My great uncle had a FB Holden like the young man who picked up his girlfriend with.I'd love a high res copy on blu-ray.
@JonathonWoodgate
5 жыл бұрын
Life was so much simpler back then
@MrRockabilly70
6 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1970 so this is a little bit before my time but this clip depicts a beautiful more sedate Melbourne when it really was the world's most liveable city but sadly not any more. The Melbourne of 2018 - hellishly expensive, overcrowded, way too much traffic, lack of decent job opportunities, crime ridden etc. A mere shadow of its former self. I really fear for the future generations and how they'll be able to cope. I would love to go back to that time!
@reginaldcrapo132
5 жыл бұрын
Hardly. @Jo Lisa Dukarić
@johnpro2847
5 жыл бұрын
@ 2:10 Melbourne was famous for its extremely empty centre on Sunday mornings .Those days are forever gone.
@sabah4123
5 жыл бұрын
People went to Church then family day at home or picnic. 👍
@johnd8892
4 жыл бұрын
Students of history may like to consider. Stated as 1966 but more likely just released and edited in 1966 but filmed earlier. eg 1964 Grand Final of Melbourne vs Collingwood starts the film. Holden factory we see HD Holdens from 1965. Cash register pre 14th of February 1966 decimalisation to Dollars. The 4K version is better but will not allow any comments like mine. Need to ask why?
@NFSAFilms
4 жыл бұрын
Hi John, yes you are correct much of the filming is pre 1966 but the publication date (release) is 1966.
@johnd8892
4 жыл бұрын
@@NFSAFilms Thanks very much for the reply. Could some thought be given to providing prominence in the 4K description to the years filmed? Eg state that that it has many scenes from 1964 and 1965. eg Starts with 1964 VFL Australian Rules Grand Final of Melbourne vs Collingwood. These keywords may point many on line searches to this film. At present the description on the 4K version just states made 1966 and later just a vague mid 1960s reference. It is a very appreciated film from every person that I have drawn their attention to, so thanks to the NFSA for providing this and many other great films.
@Sowar
5 жыл бұрын
The last time the Demons were any good...
@bradwilliams1691
3 жыл бұрын
Any team That's has Magpie fans watering the MCG turf is okay in my books. 2021 is looking good for the demons.
@NFSAFilms
13 жыл бұрын
Yes Perth and Adelaide to come but also check out Postcard From Perth which is already up.
@Redgumtv
11 жыл бұрын
Doesn't matter where you live in Australia, it's a great place.And there is something magic about the middle of last century that will never be repeated. Thanks heaps for the memories.
@kingabz108
10 жыл бұрын
what an amazing times.. it truly was the most beautiful city in the world.. its history gets so interesting the further back i look and im talking all the way back to the late 1800s and it just makes me realize why i chose to make it my birth city..
@Piratebreadstick
5 жыл бұрын
I miss "Curly", the North Fitzroy Milk man, who used to visit every Monday night - we'd chat lots. I think that went on till about 1980, then he died and that was that. I must say milk never tasted as good since.
@shakypam
12 жыл бұрын
i see from your channel you're a fan of Ku Klux Klan's David Duke. No wonder no one wants to see your hate comments here in a vid about Melbourne.
@johnpro2847
5 жыл бұрын
@ 8 :16 I actually went in this helicopter to Tulla or Essendon ..can't recall now. I was the only passenger but a real buzz . Now no longer available.
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