Life In Australia: Sydney
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2019
- From The Film Australia Collection. Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1966. Directed by Joe Scully. Episode 12 of the Life in Australia series. This series was made to encourage immigration to Australia and to highlight the various social activities, employment and educational opportunities and lifestyles of the various cities and regional centres throughout Australia. This film shows an idyllic picture of life in the New South Wales capital of Sydney in the mid 1960s. Previously uploaded in SD it is now available in 4K HD.
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‘Judy is working in one of the stores until she marries’... simpler times when a family with 3 or 4 kids could happily survive in Sydney on only one wage.
Today both parents need to work or one with a high income
Gotta say as a woman I’d prefer the rights and opportunities now 100%
@@markhustle4826 Funny
@@neversaw Working and the washing up?
I came to the comment to quote this. It's practically impossible now for young couples to buy a house unless they're on high incomes. Sad
All I know is Australia is NOTHING like this now. We barely manufacture anything, everything we buy is made in China. Now the whole family has to work or on welfare to survive. This film depicts the 'golden era' in Australia. Seeing how amazing Australia use to be is going to make me cry for days.
Adding to that, as each generation goes by they are more unlikely to afford to buy or even rent a house. Homelessness is going to sky rocket in the near future in Sydney. This place will only facilitate the upper class. Boooo Sydney
Not everything
yep those days are gone- notice no mobile phones or social media. The guys standing on the boxes at the park and talking to whoever listened - that was their "social media"
Yes the clothes are not from 2 years ago too.
Australian people are really poor now.
It's all been planned. A meeting of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in Melbourne or Sydney, can't recall, in 1938 had delegates literally saying that the production of the world would go to China years later. The RIIA is an independent think tank which basically makes Gov policy, though it is unelected and unaccountable. This is just one of many points that could be examined. Society is engineered and steered at all times.
The more I see this film the more I wish it was the sixties again, what a beautiful Australia it was .
Australia looks nothing like this now unfortunately...
For many reasons...
What a clean and prosperous time it was for Australians...
When the daughter got in the car and grabbed her make-up mirror at 1:27 I just naturally thought she grabbed her phone. How conditioned we have become.
Find me a time machine! I wanna go back! The golden years of Australia!
"They are a weird mob" a book written in the 60s ? 5Os' was the representation of lovely Australia and it's values.
I love nothing better than in the Summer, opening a bottle of wine and watching these videos of Australia in the 1960’s.
I remember being told that 1960s and 1970s Australia was so safe you could walk anywhere without fear of violence or gangs
I wouldn't say that!
Where is this violence and gangs? It's in your head, mate.
In the 60s and 70s they had razor gangs, bikies, sharpies and many more. Wasn't the safe haven people think it was.
Tell that to all the raped and murdered women in that time, continued abuse of indigenous peoples, and the children being sexually abused. It's rather that all the white dudes in charge cared less about those vulnerable.
i never knew about gangs in the 60s.except bickie gangs but never saw any.
I wish I could go back to then
Exactly as I remember it as a teenager in the 1960's, living in the poorer suburbs and travelling daily into the city for university studies and then weekends as a lifesaver on Bronte Beach. Oh, how sad to have lost these idyllic days for the over populated city, traffic snarls and technological 'disadvantages' of today. We worked hard, played harder and laughed longer back then!!!
sure thing boomer
Is it me, or does everyone and everything look much cleaner then.
Indeed
Also so white
This is scripted of course, they (the actors) were directed to do so.
@@Nokden144 سسثؤ
And happier
As soneome from Sydney I can tell you that the city has change significantly since then. Hell it changed a lot in the last 5 to 10 years.
Life looked so chilled back then
Everyone you speak to from that era says it was as well, must be true.
Imagine working a factory job with enough salary to raise a family.
True wish they brought factories back
Imagine working in a factory. In Australia
Film produced in 1966. I was 1 years old and migrated to Sydney in 1970 and we were the last boat of migrants entering Australia firstly arriving at Fremantle Port for processing then onto Melbourne and the migrant hostel then finally Sydney. I remember all those spots in this video, but those women got around, driving from Chatswood to Warringal Mall in Brookvale then Hyde Park in the city...
Our people built something so wonderful for ourselves. Why did we give it all away?
Get more people in. Don't worry if that could cause social problems for decades to come.More people will buy more stuff. That's all that matters.
I lived in suburban Sydney from '71 till end of '73, loved it.
how life was so simple in those days
don't worry life wasn't as simple as the film makes out
not one botox filler insight what a time to be alive
Here's an idea bring our practical school learning back I learnt so much as a child back then ! We all know it was better
Sydney in the sixties is like being in heaven.That time was special sydney is special
My aunties, single working social girls, certainly enjoyed it! 🥳😁
I was 16 then yes I had the privilege to grow up in the best country and listen to the best music.
How was Vietnam?
mostly we were CIVILIZED then .im proud to have seen Sydney back then as a child.Including having many photos with the unfinished opera house in the background.
Yes, I look at these videos from the 60s and whether it's Australia, US, or Canada, I can only see that we, as societies, have lost so much. Something happened in the 60s that started the decline.
The hard-working, labourous Australians made all these things.
13:50 A chilling warning about the future, more or less.
the lifestyle was so simple in those days
It was like that, believe me. Overpriced cars but Holdens and Ford made in Australia were bullett proof and provided tons of jobs.
Wow imagine being able to afford a comfortable suburban home in Sydney on a single income 😮
Imagine being able to afford it at all
The 771 and 772 bus were from the Northern Beaches. There was a bus driver named Curly. He was known to all of us kids at the time. Lets just say that he used to turn a blind eye to the shenanigans on that long trip to Milsons Pt.
This looks absolutely beautiful wonderful so healthy and happy. What on earth have you Aussies done to the poor place?
What do you mean?
Capitalism. Obviously.
Brilliant quality!
I really want to live in this Sydney🙂
Not the one in 2021🙈
We all do.
In the last 55 years, we've never seen anything disastrous like this. Panic buying at supermarkets, take-out only at restaurants, home-schooling for kids, etc.
I wanna live in the 2021 Sydney but with the house prices of this Sydney
Loved those wonderful years ‼️👍☕💕
1950 60 and 70 Australian golden years
Not for all Australians.
I can remember wearing hats and gloves to church I was born in 1963.
I was riding the RED RATTLERs (02:08) to and from work daily, 20 years after this film was made in 1966. (Some were still running in 1992).
Wow people used to live then
Now we're just zombies glued to screens
Fantastic time capsule of Sydney in the late 60's. Obviously the sanitised version with smiling slim happy people everywhere. That said I do romanticise for a simpler time where we were not all on our phones all the time and not so connected all the time. When the daughter gets in the car with Dad for a second I thought she was looking down on her phone. Haha. Ryde Pool at 12:01
Early '60's ... before decimal currency which was 13 Feb, '66. Something in Woolies was 3/6.
I thought she was for a second as well! But the only phone was inside on top of a doily on a table in the hall.
@@anSealgair yes! My mother loved doilies & had them all over the house
Lots of slim healthy people.
This video is a time machine back to happier and safer times. Australia is ruimed now. Theres no going back.
i would like my sydney to return to the sydney i grew up in and loved so much ,so sad it can never happen..
How old are you now
5:06 "Judy is working in one of the stores until she marries" .
@13:59 blond woman on stage , a young Nolene Brown... Wow i came here as a kid in 1969, went to school on these old double decker buses in 1971-72. loved them, and the old red rattlers. Remember a lot of these places, so much has changed over the years, things like we lost our country to foreign developers, and our govts became corporate owned..
That game at 11:40 is being played at Blick Oval, just above Canterbury racetrack. The railway line leads to Campsie station and my childhood home is off to the right of picture, near the white blocks ( the old Orion Markets) in the mid distance.
Thanks for the info.
The good old days
1966 not a worry in the world we were just ordinary people enjoying life
Now everyone hates each other.
I remember having a swimming costume just like the pretty blue one with the little skirt on the bottom as a child of about 8 or 9, only mine was in lemon. Such a pretty, feminine cozzy. In 1966, I was only 5, but I remember those days so clearly. Everything was cleaner, more polite and happy back then. The shops were full of variety and an infinite number of choices from which to select. The summers were long and warm with so much going on. Everything has since gone down hill so rapidly. People now are so rude and disrespectful to one another. Effective discipline has been all but wiped from society in general and manners are no longer common place. So many services have been discontinued, leaving us to serve ourselves, yet the cost of groceries and other items does not reflect this! Oh how I would just love to go back to that innocent, slower-paced life and time. 😩
God we've changed so much in 60 years.
@ 14.00 minutes; That's Noeline Brown! Actress and comedian.
Wonderful find.
I guarantee everyone was told not to smoke when making this. We could smoke everywhere and anywhere back then including planes and hospitals. I would love to see this remade today to compare both.
The true Australian life
Love you! Life in Australia 👍😍😘
Wow,I’m so happy to have seen cronulla and it certainly brought so clarity to my father’s childhood growing up there at the time.
It was certainly not as primitive as he has made out.Thank you so much for sharing this piece of treasure.❤️
9:46 constructing high rise without a safety harness. But that hard hat should save them.
great days, great country. australia was a proper paradise in the 50s and 60s.
Still is mate , if there’s too many punters down south then North Queensland is the good mail.
@@queenslander954 . Mate I’m from mackay and all I can say is we’ve sunken during and after the war we could build our own planes tanks guns cars everything we even sent a satellite into space. Now strategically we’re completely reliant on others who bring us into crap which we don’t need to be in. We can’t even build cars no more now that’s sad. We’ve become a puppet to America to the point where the accents changed. When I was at high school the kids used to think I was a Pom just because my family were farmers and spoke with an old Aussie accent. It’s sad really
The free state school in the old days was way better than the prestige private school today
Someone needs to film me doing my daily chores and put this music to it. People would then want to be me
Notable appearance by Noelene Brown at 14 mins.
Yes, I thought it was her.
Not a mobile phone in sight.
When I was a Kid, back in the 1960s, I used a wooden Ironing Board to Surf with. I forgot all about that until I saw this Clip. It was a Wipeout Man, Hanging 10 on an Ironing Board. lmao
Nice film, Sydney looks good as usual…
As a millennial, can I ask, was life really that good back then? It seems to good to be true.
It really was as depicted for some
For men yes, for girls and women no.
1960s heaven
2021 cyberpunk dystopia
Sometimes i wish i lived back then but then I remember I'm not white. Also i would think that a cyberpunk dystopia would have at least a good internet connection... hah...
Traffic on the bridge, still hasn't changed.
Australia once manufactured combine harvesters, steam engines and large, ocean-going cargo vessels - as well as radios, television sets, washing machines, refrigerators, gas and electric cooking stoves - and of course motor vehicle engines and components. But of course that good economic policy was in large measure due to the fact that there was almost complete unionisation of the workforce - outside the professions - and at least until 1938, a Labour Party rank and file membership of Approx 400,00.
400,000 rank and file members in the Labour Party
No, the only thing that made any of those local industries competitive was huge tariffs on foreign made items.
Love life without phone
I love that 1960s house. I wonder if it is still there?
Australia 🇦🇺 Is my favorite place specially Sydney 😍 ❤
Look how small the shopping trolleys are compared to today 😮
:). Real whole food takes a lot less space.
Loved this !
"Saturday night, and Sydney offers the full entertainment of a capital city."
😔
Now Australia is a country of generation landlord and generation rent
farr out the 771 is ancient! I remember hopping on as a young kid just waiting until id be old enough to rule the bus and sit up the back. the trip from the beaches to millions pt was looong so the chaocticness was high. take me back
2:07 - 2:23 - Killara Station
11:23 - Who did their homework on Friday night? I always put it off till Sunday night!
Lucky folk here...I think that it was probably the 1980's was the last time we'd ever saw a comfortable existence similar to this somewhat?! Then by the early 90's the country went down the sink hole.....
Technology & the Internet ruined this world
This is from 1966 Before decimal currency was fully in place The opera house opened in 1973 🤔
I was there in 2011, I hope to return for a visit
Why did we throw away such a good way of life. God I was I could have lived during these times.
We need to go back
AMEN
I wish we could. I'm Gen X, I wanted to live in the mid 1960s as a teenager but I never imagined how much that longing and nostalgia would grow as society steadily declined even further since the 1980s.
Australians actually manufacturing something, unbelievable.
Shovels to dig LOL
@@48tilt Pic and shovels.
Same issue in us
That house is now worth $20m.
where is it located
so valuable film
Everyone looks so fit and healthy. Why is everyone so stooped and flabby and dead-eyed these days?
Agreed, but also sunburnt to hell back then. All my older relatives growing up this time have skin like leather, skin cancer and heart disease. Still call freckles 'sun kisses'. I guess a lose-lose at this point, ugh.
Was thinking the same thing, hardly a fat person in sight!
0:46 Anyone else notice the Opera House being built?
yes under construction at the time as this is the year of 1966 its when uiltzon resigned from the project
The First Double decker Trains were Red.This must be the 1970s by the looks of the cars,fashions and music. Even though I lived in Sydney for awhile in Balmain(The old one) and Carlingford,it's easy to Forget until you see this film it brings back memories,Like the The Helter Skelter Ride in Hyde Park ,the Opera House being Built and the Rugby at Leichart Oval on Victoria Road .Great Memories Thanks.🇦🇺😉
Definitely mid-1960s. 7:33 shows pre-decimal currency pricing. Decimal currency came into effect in Febraury 1966.
@@ItsAlwaysHappyHour On the 14th of February 1966...(singalong with Dollar Bill!)
All ur locations are wrong, that was SCG and also coogee oval ,
Yes the oval was Coogee
Pretty much as I was when we emigrated in 1973. Not quite as it is now.
Very nice video
Oh those old green buses were a truly memorable ride. A bit like Luna Park without the screams. Love those old trains where you could open a window and god forbid, smoke. And there was a bar right in Central Station. But the film is rather middle class. Things were not that nice in some parts and still are not. The Harbour has been stolen by the rich..
I loved hanging off the back platform on those double deckers, going down to the hill to Bondi beach. Same with the doors on the rattlers, hang out watch for poles and pylons. No issues with Aircon breaking down, just open a damned window.
I grew up in Sydney at that time. I left to come to UK just as the opera house was being built. I went to school in Chatswood. My mate tells me it's awful there now & turning into a police state. So sad.
The Good ole days........
What happened?
Lol! I somehow thought the daughter in the car was about to go on her ph to text 😂
I hope you can release some of the instrumentals played in this video. It's really good to study with the music.
sad to see so much manufacturing - by both men and women - which has been lost. 15,000 factories back then. And now we even offshore sewing undies (Bonds)
Yep, really interesting work, sitting on a production line doing the exact same thing, eight hours a day. Let's see you sit down and sew undies for forty hours a week and then tell us about how good it is.
Things are very different since last year's pandemic. Sydney just entered another lockdown. Wollongong's also affected.
Paradise
Back before Sydney was just an ATM for rich people. I bet their mental health was better back then.
A Bit of Anger the Like leftover from WW2! Domestic issues as Today!
Fond memories...
wow fascinating born in this era
it just shows where the rich people live and not where most immigrants would end up living, good to see the indoctrinaton hasnt changed
Australia has lost its identity, the results of poor Government and a failure to invest in the future of its people
And what happened to decentralization
19:17 lads were onto a stonka of a flatty