Life In Australia: Sydney
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- 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.
The more I see this film the more I wish it was the sixties again, what a beautiful Australia it was .
I like watching these videos but find myself a bit sad or depressed after watching them. Life seemed to be about the people back then. Not the money.
Thank god for once a decent human pointing out whats important in life not just saying how Australia's change blah blah blah
I agree
Worldwide people and companies became greedy. Decades back a young couple could afford to buy a house in Sydney without a huge commute. Work was plentiful. Work conditions were generous. Tertiary education for a time was free. Medical advances have improved and we live in a more liberal society but other than that cars, music, house design and social cohesion, in fact just about everything was better...
@@club1fan552 13:49
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.
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.
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
My husband was born here in 1965. My dad was born here in 1934. My grandad was born here about 1920. Both sides of my dads family are from Sydney as early as 1826. I miss the Aussie larikin "she'll be right jack!" Attitude 😢❤
No social media, no trolls, no hit and runs because people were texting while driving.
Now Australia is a country of generation landlord and generation rent
Wow imagine being able to afford a comfortable suburban home in Sydney on a single income 😮
Imagine being able to afford it at all
If only we could go back!
id be screwed, im black lol
@@ruaterea1122 We'd all be screwed theres no WiFi.
@@riley9663 lol
these series are great, thanks! So many differences in people nowadays
1966 not a worry in the world we were just ordinary people enjoying life
Now everyone hates each other.
The video quality is excellent! Loved the neon footage and street scenes
Thanks Jonathan, recently scanned from 35mm film to 4K HD.
@@NFSAFilms 35mm is natural 4k 😀
It's true that 4K is the first digital resolution to be able to capture all of the optical information in a frame of 35mm film.
@@NFSAFilms thanks for scanning them! 😇
I love that 1960s house. I wonder if it is still there?
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.
Loved this !
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...
My mother used to solder the circuit boards at Kreisler. Not equal payback then
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!
so valuable film
sad that manufacturing is all but gone!...…….: (
What happened?
The Good ole days........
Spring comes in September in Australia?!
Sure does :)
The seasons are opposite due to being in the Southern Hemisphere
nice one
wow fascinating born in this era
Kelly Slater @ 10:59
THE GOOD OLE DAYS
There's some schools in Sydney the capital of New South Wales
A snapshot of Australian when they had a economy with manufacturing.
Like the rest of the world...
Also saw long lines of blokes looking for work, menial jobs in Sydney, problem was migrants who had poor english found it difficult.
‘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
Now everyone has to work just to pay the rent, ie husband and wife
@@mickcarson8504 yeh but dont forget the role the government has played in this
How else are you meant to pay the rent?
@@Seapin1 Everyone, not just one person
or wife and wife, husband and husband or what about single people? lol
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
Wow 1966 Sydney has more nightlife than 2019 Sydney.
my dog wouldnt go out in sydney
How is your dog these days ? @ @@TheAsiaCentury
@@TheAsiaCentury Your dog would be arrested after 10
Such a boring city. No nightlife .
@@jaygray7102 Your full of shit Jay i reckon your 3rd world shit who Australia didn't let in now your having a cry about it- fucking stay in your 3rd world shithole
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.
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
Back when we actually produced stuff and didnt need both parents working and could focus more on the family unit.
this was all part of the plan, to get both parents working [more taxes] & with both parents working before and after school care centres had more control of the minds of the children
@@chrism3225 yep the state wants to extract as much as they can get from you and get their hands on your children as early as possible to condition them to support the system in future.
Back when you can leave work at work. Now constant new messages in telegram, WhatsApp and other annoying apps.
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.
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
Australia looks nothing like this now unfortunately...
For many reasons...
What a clean and prosperous time it was for Australians...
Im from the US and it is sad what this world economy has done. Such good trusting neighbors are now strangers who won't give you eye contact. I grew up in the 70's in Boston and we were poor but everyone worked together and had morals and pride in our country. My mother was born in Italy and my grandfather from Scotland. One thing they had in common was respect for hard work and being humble. The culture was taught to be respectful and have family morals. We all kept each other in check. Then the lawyers came and ruined a system that was working perfectly. It looks like Australia had it more together. I have a feeling there is no coming back from this.
Yes, one an innocence has been lost, it’s gone forever.😢
I wish boomers weren’t so miserable about everything all the time
I'm a time traveler from 1966 and I have to say, I'm disappointed. Back to 1966, I go.
Make sure you destroy that time machine or put it on loop
@Derek Thompson I actually disagree with that one. The plastic bumpers are perfectly justified. Think about the safety. If the cars were strong as metal, there'd be more injuries on accidents. Even airbags wouldnt be enough to save you on hard impact. That's why cars are much softer than they once were.
@Derek Thompson Well as someone who's half your age, It wouldnt really be logical to argue with someone with your experience. It would be logical, however to ask what makes you say what you say. From what I understand, stronger cars cause a much more subtle stop which would likely cause injury as opposed to a weaker car.
Wow people used to live then
Now we're just zombies glued to screens
traffic is still as bad on the harbour bridge
At least they had the forethought to build 8 lanes or whatever it is, unlike the bloody M5
they need gps
Yet in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, roads then and now are much more spacious as well as sidewalks. I just don't understand the lousiness of Westerners when it comes to city design. Not my preference at all. Just look at Singapore as one example. A much smaller but much more spacious country than Australia when it comes to city design.
@@CountNadirSingapore?Yeah, where u paid 100k for a toyota camary.
in England we have the m25.. x10 worse
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.
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.
What the bloody hell happened ??
That's oh such a great video. It reminds me of my young days and things that were near and dear to us in the day, albeit 50 years on I now live in Brisbane, and how times have changed.
Thanks for the great video. I was 15 in 1966 and it brought back many scenes that I could relate to. At 11.20 the scene is Coogee Oval. The rugby players in the green are Central Randwick and it's South Coogee in the red who I used to play for. Happy days (for the most part).
Thanks for the information Phillip, and glad you enjoyed the film.
I wish I could go back to then
no casinos no private roads no pokies just good old time with fresh air and asbestos
LMBAO!
Beautiful days!! That will never be seen again.
I remember these days so clearly.
The double decker carriages were introduced in the late 60s. Bring back those days please.
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
Amazing to see all those ships at the wharf bringing in products,creating jobs where as now it’s full of rich wankers in condos with little to contribute.
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!
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.
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.
Those houses were so well built.
Lots of slim healthy people.
The hard-working, labourous Australians made all these things.
13:50 A chilling warning about the future, more or less.
Life looked so chilled back then
Everyone you speak to from that era says it was as well, must be true.
Can we go back to the Australia like we once had. I dont like the way its evolved.
What do you mean ? Be clear...
@@gokulm92 he doesn’t need to be clear.
Hi Paul B.
@@gokulm92 Too easy mate,allow me to be clear. Sri Lanka by all accounts used to be a beautiful country, but I'd say that over the past year perhaps many Sri Lankans don't like the way it has evolved, for many reasons......so there you go. 🥱
@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..
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
how life was so simple in those days
don't worry life wasn't as simple as the film makes out
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
5:06 "Judy is working in one of the stores until she marries" .
Thanks to the NSFA for putting up this (and the others, like Melbourne).
1966 was my first year of living in Manly and I often travelled on the "Dee Why" and the "South Steyne" Manly ferries, to my job in the Customs House at Circular Quay. Seeing all those wharves actually with ships berthed in them brought back my memories, especially the ways of unloading their cargo in slings by the wharfies. Before containerisation cost most of them their jobs.
And those green double-decker buses, where sitting up top and up front gave the most amazing views of the passing world.
They were such optimistic times.
Not a mobile phone in sight.
1950 60 and 70 Australian golden years
Not for all Australians.
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.
What on earth has happened? I'd prefer to go back
It was like that, believe me. Overpriced cars but Holdens and Ford made in Australia were bullett proof and provided tons of jobs.
The true Australian life
I can remember wearing hats and gloves to church I was born in 1963.
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.
it's a pity we outsourced our electronics ...
And everything else as well.
9:46 constructing high rise without a safety harness. But that hard hat should save them.
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 🤔
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...
5:39 Oh wow, The Forest High School! My sister went there, I remember she had that uniform. In 1966 she was 15, so she might even be one of the older girls in that first scene. I was only 6 and the high school I would later go to, KIllarney Heights High, hadn't yet opened (it began operating in 1967).
Watching this makes me feel like a kid again. Man, I miss the 60s. Such a great time to be a kid. And Sydney was such a great town back then. Now it's an overpriced, overcrowded, traffic-choked dump and I haven't lived in it for a bit over ten years.
Yeah I’m from Wollongong and now that’s turning into the same thing. Overpopulated and expensive as. My parents got a quote on their house for 1.5 million. It’s a small 4 bedroom house :/ I’m looking to move soon. Just don’t know where
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).
Bought back great memories. Many thanks 🙂🇦🇺🇦🇺
Much better times back then compared to the present .
Everyone was dressed nicely....so polished.....
Even the mechanics???
Wow and OMG! I remember all of that and recognise so much as having been my life as a child of the '60s! That little Knox boy from next door at 2minutes and swimming across the T pool at the Ryde Swimming Centre Gladesville at 7 minutes might just as well have been me! So glad to see these old images again, such memories.
Nearly everyone I see in this video has a well-kept appearance. Now there are people who don't give two sh*ts what they look like or what they do in public lol.
Notable appearance by Noelene Brown at 14 mins.
Yes, I thought it was her.
Love you! Life in Australia 👍😍😘
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 don’t think I saw a morbidly obese person. They all seem a lot calmer as well.
What happened.
The shopping trolleys got bigger 😂
The same in the UK at that time.
The multinational food corporations hadn't discovered additives and added sugar to everything they served up to us, yet.
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.
2:07 - 2:23 - Killara Station
11:23 - Who did their homework on Friday night? I always put it off till Sunday night!
"With the school children and the workers gone, the suburbs belong to the mothers and small children" Lol, the way things are now, it's only old people and boomers out during the day with both parents slogging it out to barely afford childcare (and rent, because lets face it, not many families can afford a home of their own). Nice work guys, really making the world a better place for the next generation.
Pubs full of art and nicely dressed people instead of TAB, Pokies and Gambling ads.
"Sydney full of entertainment" not anymore, thanks to the lockout laws theres no nightlife or culture left. Thanks guys, nice work with those progressive policies.
"On Sundays people go to Church" well I suppose thats a positive change, less money for a corrupt organisation and less prey for pedophiles.
That all came at a cost. Women with amazing minds felt pressured to stay at home and put dinner on the table for the breadwinner. Many of them copped a back hander. LGBT+ people were almost certainly destined to remain closeted. People built their homes with James Hardie asbestos-based fibro. Society changes. Australians still enjoy possibly the best quality of life in the world, but are too busy whining to realise it. Remember, the purpose of many of these NFSA films was to attract immigrants to Australia in order to populate it. Tell that to the boat people the Liberals won't let in.
What's wrong with pokies?
@@lundimardi1975 OMG, I am a woman and I have a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Melbourne. Because my husband died when my baby was three months old, and with a two year old to look after as well, I had no choice but to be a stay at home Mum! It's what I always wanted, anyway, but after my husband's death I had no choice.
I found other ways to keep my mind occupied. Before I met my husband, I studied Environmental Science at Melbourne and these days, I own my own Permaculture farm, debt free! It took brains to develop this place, and that is what I have expended my intelligence and knowledge on.
As well as this, I have written three novels and have a high ranking, weekly, two hour radio broadcast. During the early days of my domestic life, (after graduation) I learned to speak Scottish Gaelic (my husband was a Highlander) and this is enough to keep anyone's brain ticking, I can tell you!
So, being a Mum doesn't completely switch off your grey matter, and if you have anyone to blame for your synapses atrophying after motherhood, it's yourself!
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.
I lived in suburban Sydney from '71 till end of '73, loved it.
That house is now worth $20m.
where is it located
This video is a time machine back to happier and safer times. Australia is ruimed now. Theres no going back.
the lifestyle was so simple in those days
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.