Life in Australia: Melbourne
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2019
- From The Film Australia Collection. Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1966. Directed by Douglas White. Episode 10 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 Victorian capital of Melbourne in the mid 1960s. Previously uploaded in SD it is now available in 4K HD.
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Those were the days. He could work in a factory and she could work at the Coles deli counter and they could still buy a house and raise a family comfortably.
You do realize that "she" is Meg Morris from Prisoner. These are just propaganda pieces.
Wharfies actually working and not stealing anything - that's NOT accurate.
@@chookfowler7896 Still doesn't stray from the fact that they could still buy a house and raise a family back then, now thanks to an out of date education system and old farts in parliament relying on factory work we fail to evolve with our economy and now we are paying the price for it.
Although Coles were not supermarkets with deli counters back then. Coles variety stores with no food other than confectionery. A forgotten aspect in the change went through and Coles happy to give the impression that they were grocers from the start.
Pretty sure these store shots are from Myers with the ground floor of Lonsdale Street store having a large deli type food section. Rest of the shots in store have a Myers vibe.
An era when Australia was the lucky country. When we had an auto industry as well as many others. Homes were affordable and parking your car in town was not an endless search for a parking spot. No 24 hour everything-endless shopping but a two day weekend with family time, we were not flooded with cheap poor quality imports and everything made of plastic. Folks were slimmer and better dressed/presented in general. Those were the days.
The term ‘the lucky country’ was a nasty side swipe at how ignorant Australia was. Most uneducated Australians quote this but aren’t aware it’s an insult. Always has been.
@@frisky9 regardless of your opinion, we were lucky, and it was a better time.
I get so jealous of the life people had back then, so simple and so humble. What a time to be alive.
Same. A much better time. I would give alot to go back.
Looks so nice wish I was born earlier :)
Everyone was spontaneous...it was cool. Times were fun
No internet, no smartphones, no games, y'all wished get back to future in a hour
It was great 😁
Magnificent Melbourne, so pure & innocent…
Where policeman working at school crossing..
The streets of Melbourne ever so clean, the air crisp & pure…
Oh you beautiful Melbourne, how lovely you looked ❤❤❤❤
Look how cool life was. Everyone was thin and healthy, no bloody graffiti everywhere. If I ever had the opportunity to go back in time I'd be sent straight back to Melbourne in the 70s.
1966 = the year St Kilda won the flag. Watched the game on TV with my dad. Best day ever for him. He passed the following March... I still miss him.
All my family were supporters then also. There were great celebrations in Prahran that time. All my oldies are up there with your dad remembering the days.
I was born late 1950s. These years were the best! Nothing like todays world.
Another brilliant film thanks for the share. I miss the Australia of my youth where we had a manufacturing industry, everybody worked hard and people didn’t dress like they were from the Hood or were covered in tattoos.
This is just gorgeous! Sublime soundtrack. So many memories. VFL with zero advertising on the jumpers or boundary fence. Housing commission flats which I grew up in. Coppers manning the Childrens crossings. Those yellow litter bins and green water fountains. W class trams galore. The Hellicab. The Rottis-o-mat at Myers. Fruit and veg in paper bags with no cling-wrap to be seen. Commer delivery vans. Paper tram tickets. It's almost criminal that they destroyed the Southern Cross hotel. Holden factory which I got to tour during a family open day as a kid. Bourke street before the mall. All the fantastic original architecture before the great destruction, I mean developement. Near-new Harris trains. Red telephone booths. Neon signs. And not a spot of graffiti anywhere! 🥰
I worked at the Southern Cross from 79 to 89. Fun times.
Back when we still made things in Australia.
Yea seeing those engines being made my me angry.
@@apoorhorseabusedbycenk we had wonderful products that lasted for years. When you could afford it, you knew you would get years out of an appliance. It was not a throw away society, less garbage everywhere then. People cared and took pride in themselves and their homes. We knew our neighbours, and played in the street.
watching this 30/7/21 in lockdown, How wonderful is this, making me cry
Everyone seems to be more respectful to each other back then.
Sure, so long as you were white. Toward we non-white people, not so much.... the white Australia policy was in full effect.
@@GRDwashereYeah, let's bring it back
WHAT a wonderful time to be alive in AUS.... before this MADNESS
Women even twerked their asses in the past, like they were hypnotized. Wasn't that madness as well??
@@Religious_man it was dancing and the men danced too. Didn't stand around with a stubbie in their hands listening to shit!
My mum and dad never even thought about gas or electric bills, Melbourne was perfect back then.
Not long or far to get out in the country side, I think that Melbourne had about 2 million population.
I had an amazing childhood and really loved Melbourne. It was the best place in the world.
Mark, I agree. Yes the suburbs today were country. A Sunday drive was special, and the fruit and vegetables were magnificent. I remember it well. I was very young then, but I remember being very happy. Melbourne collapsed very quickly after 2000. It's a total disaster right throughout Australia, but the big cities are a horror and so dirty.
Looks like Melbourne around 1964 or 5. I was a young teenager in those days living in coastal NSW until 1966. We then moved to Melbourne. What a cultural shock that proved to be. Melbourne was a drab old city in those days. The film shows Melbourne’s best face on a warm Summer day, but the reality was much different. The old noisy non heated Red Rattles, the leaded gas fumes pouring out the exhaust pipes out of basic cars that listed the heater as an option, all added to the misery of a Melbourne winter.
The air was thick with smelly smoke from the backyard incinerator every home to have, or the burning of mountains of fallen leaf litter in the Bluestone street gutters of every inner city suburb. There were no Freeways anywhere in Melbourne. Any main road out of town like the Hume and Princes Hwy were choked with slow underpowered trucks and equally slow and hesitant cars towing caravans on any long weekend. The main roads went straight through the middle of every town and village for the entire trip, along with local traffic and restrictions. Broken windscreens, breakdowns and flat Tyers and most Service stations closing at 5pm in every town just added to the pioneering spirit and planning required for any road trip.
So was life better or worse in the 60’s than now? The simple answer is YES and NO! House prices and the cost of living was much less than today, but life’s conveniences such as mobile phones, computers, fast food! Big screen TV, multiple channels, cable TV etc was science fiction to the extreme.
Yes, phones, computers, fast food! The very reason the 1960's was so great (Vietnam excepted) was specifically because these things, amongst others, were not yet inflicted on us. In winter there was VFL.
These were the best of days. We were so fortunate, but took it all for granted.
To the people from older generations complaining in the comments section, please know that I mean this with respect when I ask you; who do you think it responsible for inventing all the plastic rubbish that you don’t like. You don’t like how busy the roads are and complain that people stopped using public transport, but didn’t you stop using public transport too? Who allowed globalisation and an influx of chain stores to come to Australia? Cause as someone in my early 20’s, it sure wasn’t me? You can’t look back and say it was better back then without taking a look at yourselves and how you might have contributed to the current state of Melbourne.
Personally I like Melbourne. I feel it’s lost a lot of it’s soul since the lockdowns, which is a real shame, but I think there is a strong sense of community when you search for it and it’s gonna revive the place! I hope you understand what I’m saying, you can’t blame the younger generations for this, it’s your world that we are now navigating.
Well, I'm 84 and Melbourne has been my hometown since 1980.
Well said!
Ahhhh a time when people were normal. What a great time to be alive.🇦🇺🇦🇺
Yep so true & so different now
Those people would be horrified if they could see into the future . 😣
Ah yes the horror of civil rights, gender equality, and all other minorities getting treated like human beings
Good, it means we've progressed as a society
I lived in Melbourne most of my life,now I live in New South Wales, seeing these pictures I am home sick.
Me too. I live on the Murray now. And I always love Melbourne. Takes me back to the good, funny, happy times. And then I remember friends I've lost... kinda like "The Castle".
Delightful to see a young Elspeth Ballantyne In this video,
Who would later star in Prisoner. I absolutely enjoyed the years I lived in Melbourne 1987 to 1999
Australia must’ve been paradise back then. I don’t think anyone in 1966 Melbourne would’ve had to worry about nuclear annihilation, and everything looks so clean and bright.
Oh, it was. I was 10, and we didn't feel scared, we felt loved. Two parents always with my friends. Normal suburban homes, nice big streets and backyards. It was fabulous.
Well I was born in '68 and we spent the whole of the 70's and 80's worrying about Nuclear Annihilation.
Takes me back to another time.
Also a better time - some would argue.
How times have changed now life was so much more relaxed and simple back then.
Aaah to a life filled with hope, enthusiasts, colour, freedom, trust and happy people!
Life as knew it was filled with anticipation, joy and natural fun loving kind people.
I noticed a vast change in everyday life as l once experienced it in the 70’s and late eighties.
And eventually along came the forbidden 🍎 technology which was meant to make life easier has done the opposite consuming many a brain cell, their space and time. Since
9/11 happened everything has drastically changed on a world wide scale. This vastly caused major changes as well.
Last but far from least CV19 pretty much put the icing on the cake.
I’m glad to be the age I am today the earth in Melbourne and in 3121 will sadly never ever be what this once was. The nostalgia of this video was a delight. 🙏🏼
Yep, life was certainly more forward thinking and positive than it is today. The sun was hot, the girls were pretty and the beer was cold. I'd go back in a heartbeat!
@@johnmay6090
The amount of pessimistic comments from many people on here.
Yet, they don't even realise that they personally choose to view the world so negatively.
There are positives things about being alive today, if one wants to open their eyes, minds and hearts and stop allowing the worst of everything to cloud their judgement.
Another great restoration of old film footage.
This is an absolutely beautiful snapshot of the era.
I wasn't born at this time, but I love seeing the era when my late Grandfather would have still been at work.
Thank you so much to the NFSA for preserving this wonderful vision of life in Melbourne in the 60s...
Glad you enjoyed it
@@NFSAFilms Very much so. Thank you very much for sharing it.
I showed my 83 year old Mum and she enjoyed it immensely as well. Gave her some great memories of the days when she worked in the Melbourne CBD.
I lived in Melbourne from Sept 1982 until Jan the 3rd 2009 coming from NZ.Quite ironic because in February 83 the Ash Wednesday bush fires happened and when we left in Jan 2009 back to NZ the Black Saturday bushfires happened.Unbelievable
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I love the background music to these short films
Music composed by George Dreyfuss as in the credits at 18:45.
A serious an accomplished composer. His later reworking of the Palmer River song into the Rush gold rush TV series theme was very popular.
I was about 3 y.o when this was made. (circa 1964) How wonderful it would be to see those halcyon days again.
I saw a Holden HD so possibly 1966? I was born in 1967.
2:34 you can still see the ghost of the cat mascot on the side of that building on elizabeth st today
Did you all see that, we actually had a manufacturing industry and built cars lol
Absolutely beautiful💕
Please bring back the NORMALITY 🙏
The massage scene is of the most unexpected twists in cinema history
Topless too.
My Hometown :) I was 1 when this was filmed. Melbourne is still supposedly the world's most liveable city in 2023; it was then, even more so!
Wow, this is the happy 60s, truly, good old times.
Half the people look miserable.
WOW I wish I was alive to see this Melbourne
really ? when men used to beat their women behind close doors with impunity ... when houses were filled with asbestos cladding. When there was no treatment for any cancer yet ? When bad people could get away with murder or rape as Police force was rotten and there was no forensic technology available then .. list could go on !!!
The film was made to show all the nice bits, none of the nasties, in order to encourage immigration. And it has actors in it.
I was in Melbourne then - yeah it was good but not all that brilliant.
I wouldn’t wanna live in this time period, but I do appreciate the architecture and technology of the time. Everything seems to have a lot more personality to it, the buildings and the cars, ect. I guess it’s just interesting to see how the city has changed since then
I really miss ‘milkies’ it was great as a young kid, going to the front door to collect fresh butter and creamy milk every other day ☺️
I was born in Melbourne ,lived in south Melbourne we played in parks,went fishing with my grandfather ,at Port Melbourne docks,we had true friends back then so.much has changed🙁
Too much Cheryl. I was brought up then too! Hard to believe it's the same place. Life was so good and Australian.
my mum grew up in middle park, born in 71. small world?
As a child loved walking up Princess Bridge station then you were in ' town '😅. Still miss the motorcycle shops on Elizabeth St.
I was in Melbourne recently, and the abundance of coffee chugging hipsters and young people was through the roof
i had an EK Holden in 65 too, only a few kids crossings had wardens or cops, Melbourne was the shopping hub then Chadstone opened. I also did deliveries into Flinders lane fashion area & to milliners, knew my city very well.
This is really interesting and beautifully filmed 😃
Thank you very much!
Before diversity became our strength
Most Australians from that time preffered Australia being non-diverse. That's one reason it took more than 70 years to abolish the white australia policy
I love this video.
Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome.
All young people today in 2021 need to see this in order to know whats real living and FREEDOM 👍
By young people how young do you mean? The lockdown only started in 2020
It’s also for our own safety
*if you weren't Aboriginal and didn't mind a cheeky bout of TB now and then.
More freedom now, no one expects you to do anything, the world your oyster.
Those vinyl seats in them cars used to get scorching hot on a summers day.
Towel always worked, we didn't complain, they were put together so men could work on them easily.
Just don't drop a red hot seat belt buckle on your leg. I'm surprised I don't have HEMCO branded into my leg from my Mum's FC station wagon.
Horse aided delivery of milk may have lasted until 1987.
The National Museum of Australia has what might be the last used one in Australia.
From their website description :
This horse-drawn milk wagon was used by the Lincoln Park Dairy to deliver milk in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon from the 1940s until 1987. It has an unusually rich provenance and is remembered fondly by many members of the local community.
This ties in with some of the near Essendon location in the comments below here.
There was a magic of sorts in those days that seems to have gone, when most folks had respect or at least treated people with respect.
A far cry to what we can expect now days. Digital Tech did not rule our lives as we had time to think and take in air and smell the roses though there was some pollution at times particularly winter at times due to wood fires or briquette Coal or wood variety.
At about 12.56, the fountain in the courtyard of the Southern Cross Hotel. It was covered in mosaic tiles, and I worked on it with lots of other students as a summer holiday job. The curved brown paper shapes were laid out flat & we stuck the mosaic tiles on the paper. Was not present at the transferring of the whole onto the bare form of the fountain. I was an art student at Caulfield Tech at the time - must have been 1963.
I would like to live back then.
So crazy to see how little traffic there was in the City and the inner city suburbs during the day....
Yes, because most people went by bus and train into the city. Women were home with children too! Two car families were rare.
I remember the old horse and cart delivering the milk. Poor horse collapsed one day and it was so traumatic seeing him lying on the road for days :(
My dad n mum remember those days too and im sad because I feel im living in the wrong generation/time...
poor horse. must Have been overworked❤
My parents were in the punk scene bigtime. dad more so than mum lol٫ but mum was punk/surfie 😂❤
Probably sleeping 😴
Everybody had a nice front garden back then.
'Everybody'
Born in Melbourne 60 years ago. Whilst I remember all this, Melbourne is now such a different place. In some ways much better and some ways terrible. In most ways it did feel like one big community back then.
Isn't it beautiful and peaceful.. . I wish we could live those great old days again. Those were the days it was actually living.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Ah the good old days when Melbourne actually produced things and people other than nitwits who are worried about everyone else's business but their own
This is surreal to me. It looks like about 1964. i was born '63, and I worked at the same engine plant factory - Fisherman's Bend in '90 - '92, when the industries such as these were still going, albeit with some doubts over the horizon.
Love all of those awesome car’s shame our government sold us out to overseas 😡
Yeah, see Holden plant, was like a city and now its a wasteland ..ford same
Can't blame governments if people want more affordable vehicles.
That's how Henry Ford made his money, by making cars that were more affordable to the average person.
I was born in Melbourne in March 1970. Lived there until early January 1974 when I moved to South Australia where I still live as of 06/07/2022. But I've veen there on four short visits sibce July 2019.
i'm Belgian i was born in Brussels and i love Melbourne
My grandfather was Belgium but I'm Australian . People always ask is my name Dutch, no its Belgium I reply😅.
What a wonderful score by George Dreyfus
Oh I was 5 or 6 and remember all this so well!
I want to live back in 1970s ❤❤❤
Born and bred in this fantastic city. Almost left during the world's longest lock down . Don't really want to live anywhere else. Great film
I can see the appeal of this generation but it’s a generational thing, I personally love having internet and being able to organise trips/catch ups/ ordering food etc, besides the junkies and inflation I feel things are pretty good
This was very enjoyable 😄❤️😄
Greatest city in the world I’ll say!
Yes it was a great time to live in Melbourne.
Style, affordable, openness with no graffiti. Traffic was manageable. People eat good but plain food therefore no obesity.
And the best was you could walk across the city streets without fear of being killed.
Myer cafe and others, memories.
Nice memories, those were the days of the old Pay Pack.
Good old simpler times...
Strange to see the streets of Melbourne with hardly anyone there at 2:19 as this is how it looks now in 2021 coz of Covid. Also Mazda poster with cats face at 2:33 I think is still there but alot faded after all these years. Great tho to see all this memorable footage from the past.
These were the better days in victoria.... now its full of Melbournain MUPPETS..!!!!!!!!!
Could be worse - could be full of Sydney humanoids...
I remember yabbying in the pond at the Exhibition Building, and sitting on the edge of the fountain at the Southern Cross Hotel
If only I had a time machine.
Back in the days before KFC, and Mc. Real food, people were thin and good looking. When you got a pizza it was a real one.
there were no pizzas then, they came in the 70s, look at the missed business opportunities.
All the Saints supporters love this video😅.
I was just telling my son how we had the milk delivered. Then a couple of days later this popped up.
The milkman didn't even stop the horse when he jumped off the cart ! Wouldn't it have been funny if he couldn't catch up with it again ?
Took a while to train a good milk cart horse and get them under voice control. Eg basic Gee Up and Whoa.
So I seem to have read.
National Museum discussion on the last 1987 horse drawn milk cart and touches on how the horses were trained and smart :
ruclips.net/user/livexP83JVPdnlA?feature=share
Yes, the milk man and the sound of those beautiful horses, the milk was rich and creamy, just washed out the bottles and left a note if you wanted something like cream, etc.
You couldn’t even leave 2 milk cartons on the ground now.
The horse could do the whole route without him 😂
9:00 - the Wool exchange. Now the Australian institute of music. I launched that college back in 2014. Never truly appreciated the history of that building at the time.
Looking back now at 2023 back to 1967 when my perants were migrating ronAustralia i see what tempted tgem to come here sux weeks on a ship from Greece on the patice
Melbourne now, a suburb of New Delhi.
A guy has a job opening a gate… I want it! 💖🤣
I emigrated to UK from South Africa in the late 60's and after 10 years I had enough and emigrated in '81 with my family to OZ.........never looked back......I has a plumber in the other day to unblock a drain and mentioned the house was built in '81.....he said he wasn't even born then....LOL.
UK is better than OZ. Its in far end of Europe not far from Asia Africa and North America.
@@happys6057
The UK is also not far from parts of Europe and the middle east that are facing military conflicts.
And Australia is actually closer to Asia than the UK is.
The weather is much better in Australia, too.
And Australia isn't still trying to settle issues with the European Union.
As much as I like the UK. Give me Australia any day.
I love Melbourne, it is a beautiful city. I especially love it's Architecture.
Sorry to say this, we must have the worst driver's in Australia! Rude, angry, frustrated, Tail gating mfs.
We have those same F-wits here in NZ, I think its a worldwide thing.
Now now, calm down, you sound a bit road ragey yourself
Things are way different now that the city's suffering its 4th lockdown since the pandemic began.
5th lockdown now
Now 6th lockdown
@@seiner0ne Make that 6, mate!
@@Lockdown-xl2cm and still going
I wish I can time travel I want to experience every time peroid
I'd love to do that. I'll come with😊
you would find it very boring during that time.
we live in much more interesting times now.
@@mth469 interesting does not mean good by any standards.
@@mth469 it was not boring at all. The nightlife was fantastic. Pubs had bands, saw every Australian band for the price of a supper ticket in your local big pub. It was a great time for everything.
13:24. I don’t know about the masseur getting his gear off too 😂😂😂
The hard working true blue Aussie 💙❤️🤍
Bring back blue and gold trains - and innocent romance.
.... Blue Harris trains, asbestos insulated, lovely,
they were shit boxes,,so uncomfortable the red rattlers were better..
@@whoarethebrainpigs yes they were the best. More seats and we used to leave the doors open for air on a hot day. Loved going in the train as a kid. Not today thanks.
149 red motors and triple front houses, yes!
Wish I was from this erra
You could have easily have 3 kids and be able to buy a house and pay it off in no time. Now it's locked into paying off a house for 30 years and potentially not being able to afford to have a child
You really don’t. This era was horrible time for Melbourne. Immigration problems, which obviously implicated racism. Everything here was super bland, no multiculturalism as you see it now. Today is the best era for Melbourne as a city.
Solarris yeah we’re so inventive and hardworking and clean and orderly and peaceful. Ugh..boring! So glad immigrants are changing all that
@@Solarris ha,ha, good one.
@@Solarris Economically, life was much easier in those years. And the streets were cleaner and safer. Bland? That's your opinion, friend.
Its cool knowing my dad as a little kid is alive while this is being shot and living 45 min outside of the city
i love this town
Kylie Minogue is from Melbourne.
Indeed, went to Camberwell High School
15:12 such a vibe
I was student in Melbourne from 1982 to 1989, coming from Malaysia it was a cultural shock for me. I also unwittingly became a Collingwood supporter for borrowing a Magpies scarf to keep myself warm during my first winter, sadly the 80s was a continual disappointment and heart break for Collingwood fans.
Before I was Born, but oh so many great memories from this footage. @4:18 wasn't She in The Aussie T.v Show Prisoner? This Is Priceless Footage. Oh how I wish we could go back in time. The Good, Safe old Day's in Victoria Australia xoxo kindest thoughts to you and your family from Victoria xx
Yes it is Elspeth Ballantyne. She's such a wonderful actress.
She was the nice prison warder. I think she was called Meg. Old Vinegar Tits thought she was soft.
my dad was born in the early '70s and told me that Melbourne wasn't the best place to live back then. Docklands and Southbank were industrial dumps. and look at how grey and barren the streetscape is, no trees anywhere except for parks and peoples' front gardens. the skyline is just a concrete forest, no wonder the Rialto was such a big deal when it was built. still looks good today honestly
Wow men and women dressed respectfully really good to see
Ride your horses around the Tan whilst a gardener pushes a wheelbarrow of leaves across the playing fields to light a bonfire so that a young Paul Kelly can write a song about burning leaves and going in leaps and bounds.