Woy Woy The Venice Of Australia

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  • Опубликовано: 27 дек 2017
  • From the National Collection. NFSA Title number 9474. Made by Pacific Productions. Directed by Claude Flemming. A couple (director-narrator Claude Flemming and his niece) take a trip to Woy-Woy by train and visit the various attractions, such as the Bowling club, Memorial Park, and Ettalong Beach. Also shown is the wonderful scenery, beaches, mountains, fishing, surfing, the surf life savers and horse riding. The narrator tells a little of the history of the area and recommends the location as an ideal holiday destination. The Hawkesbury River Bridge, and the scenic beauties of Patonga, Ocean Beach, Pearl Beach,
    Broken Bay are seen.
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Комментарии • 53

  • @hoilst
    @hoilst 2 года назад +1

    GREATEST. FILM. TITLE. EVER.

  • @AllRound_GG
    @AllRound_GG 7 месяцев назад

    What a fantastic film.

  • @SharonNewman-dd6gq
    @SharonNewman-dd6gq 9 месяцев назад

    its still beautiful!

  • @mubd1234
    @mubd1234 6 лет назад +2

    Woy Woy Train Station 1937 - Oh hello Sally, by Joe what a big girl you've grown! Looking so pretty too!
    Woy Woy Train Station 2017 - G'day Shazza, fuck me dead you've grown since I last saw ya! Geez you're a stunner aren't you?

  • @brucegarry8114
    @brucegarry8114 6 лет назад +4

    Great little film. I reckon mid to late 1930s. The cars, the swim suits and no mention of WWII when addressing the monument. Thank you.

    • @feefyefoefum
      @feefyefoefum 6 лет назад

      I agree, definitely pre-war mid-1930's

    • @johnhumphreys9774
      @johnhumphreys9774 5 лет назад

      Yes. 1930

    • @BusaRider86
      @BusaRider86 3 года назад

      The old rail bridge is shown (no pillars of the old bridge), so definately pre WWII

  • @johnbull362
    @johnbull362 5 лет назад

    Great video, thanks for sharing

  • @SimonHunt999
    @SimonHunt999 6 лет назад +5

    Sleaze laugh at 6.00 "heh heh heh"

  • @bullsnutsoz
    @bullsnutsoz 5 лет назад +2

    My great garnfather enginnered on the old woy train bridge back in 1800s...It was shonky job done by New york bridge comany who also named Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury...Woy used to have some real frindly sheilas back in 70s, but today its a druggie hang out...

  • @fab60s64
    @fab60s64 6 лет назад +4

    Well, i like woy woy, but its nothing like Venice ! I use to live in woy woy!,
    Spike Milligan who lived there , once said they were going to test a Atomic bomb on woy woy in the 1950s , the only reason they did not do it was because it wouldn't of looked any different!
    But seriously it is a great place and i loved my time living there.

    • @NFSAFilms
      @NFSAFilms  6 лет назад

      Thanks for sharing the memories Peter.

    • @briantolson881
      @briantolson881 6 лет назад +4

      I heard him say " They held a beauty contest in Woy Woy and nobody won"

  • @scottsv96
    @scottsv96 4 года назад

    Just wondering if you guys have anything on Moorebank in the 80s thanks

  • @DavidBromage
    @DavidBromage 6 лет назад +4

    Parodied by Spike Milligan (who lived in Woy Woy) with the Idiot Weekly episode "King's Cross - The East Berlin of Australia".

  • @stuartjohnson6476
    @stuartjohnson6476 6 лет назад +1

    At 4:40, he talks about a house owned by Major Cox (I believe that's who it is as he really mumbled the surname). Can anyone tell me what the house is and where it was located (I am guessing it no longer exists)?

  • @chiefchook
    @chiefchook 6 лет назад

    The original Hawkesbury River Bridge only is visible so this is dated before work started on the new bridge in 1940.The train is operating at normal speed, perhaps 40mph, so it's before a speed limit was imposed when a serious crack was found in a pier in 1938, after which a speed limit of 14mph was imposed. I've seen this short before, possibly on Facebook last year.

    • @adrianjackson2696
      @adrianjackson2696 4 года назад +1

      Looking at the women's hair style and fashion this film is a mid or perhaps early 1930's film. They are probably all dead now.

    • @bigears4014
      @bigears4014 Год назад

      @@adrianjackson2696 not necessarily so, as the children would be early nineties

  • @jasoncarpp7742
    @jasoncarpp7742 6 лет назад +2

    What year was this? This looks like the 1940s or early 1950s.

  • @ianking8575
    @ianking8575 4 года назад

    At 2.25, narrator says "Gov. Phillip visited here in 1778"
    He meant 1788!

  • @zenmaster24
    @zenmaster24 6 лет назад +2

    there was a studio in pagewood?!?!?
    #botanycouncilrepresent

    • @mubd1234
      @mubd1234 6 лет назад

      Now known as Westfield Eastgardens...

    • @zenmaster24
      @zenmaster24 6 лет назад

      really? eastgardens was built on an old bus depot though
      edit - it was the Urban Transit Authority Pagewood bus depot - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_Eastgardens
      edit 2 - ah i see it was sold to holden which was also part of the eastgardens site - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagewood_Studios
      the more you know!

    • @mubd1234
      @mubd1234 6 лет назад +1

      Before the bus depot, and before General Motors-Holden, it was a film studio!
      www.voommaps.com/maps/gregorys_1939/024.html

    • @emohruo7996
      @emohruo7996 6 лет назад

      So was a GMH production plant

    • @maddy6020
      @maddy6020 5 лет назад

      I worked there in 1956, directing some of the first TV commercials. Great studio and complex.

  • @crumble701
    @crumble701 6 лет назад +1

    Nice place but what's the comparison with Venice??

    • @stuartjohnson6476
      @stuartjohnson6476 6 лет назад +1

      Because it's surrounded by water I guess.

    • @NFSAFilms
      @NFSAFilms  6 лет назад +2

      Yes just like Venice but with out the art, history, canals, gondolas etc - I believe they have pizza though.

    • @adrianjackson2696
      @adrianjackson2696 4 года назад +1

      Much cleaner than Venice though, and have been to Venice in 1985 (dog mess everywhere in the streets), and the Australia population was nearly all Anglo Saxon in the pre WW2 period - no Venetians. Check out a similar description in South West Pacific 1943.

    • @adrianjackson2696
      @adrianjackson2696 3 года назад +1

      @k2 Sorry k2 I live in Melbourne.

  • @jasoncarpp7742
    @jasoncarpp7742 6 лет назад +1

    I've heard of Woy Woy by name, but because I'm not from Australia, I've never visited.

    • @NFSAFilms
      @NFSAFilms  6 лет назад

      Really! You've heard of Woy Woy? Well I guess it is the Venice of Australia - the only similarity being water.

    • @jasoncarpp7742
      @jasoncarpp7742 6 лет назад

      The first time I'd heard of Woy Woy was in a documentary starring the late comedian Spike Milligan. It's called *"From Woy Woy to Wagga Wagga."* It's available on RUclips if you're interested in having a go at it. :)

    • @NFSAFilms
      @NFSAFilms  6 лет назад +1

      Woy Woy's most famous son. Awesome. Of course you would have also seen our Wagga Wagga film too ruclips.net/video/nYkA01ec-VY/видео.html

    • @jasoncarpp7742
      @jasoncarpp7742 6 лет назад

      Woy Woy, Wagga Wagga, he also mentioned other towns. :)

    • @OldAussieAds
      @OldAussieAds 3 года назад

      Did he mention where I’m from? Yip Yip.

  • @emohruo7996
    @emohruo7996 6 лет назад +1

    Hah the above ground cemetery 30 miles north of Sydney on our very non multicultural and beautiful Central Coast that's the way we like it ahah. The swimming togs are circa 1920'and 30's

  • @maxrowley7261
    @maxrowley7261 6 лет назад +1

    The narration is so forced and badly scripted. I remember going by train to Woy Way for holidays with my grandparents. The English accent was so bad. The English b grade movie's of the time ha this same stilted approach,.

    • @NFSAFilms
      @NFSAFilms  6 лет назад

      Agree.

    • @neilforbes416
      @neilforbes416 6 лет назад

      Dead right there! Pompous British "aristocratic" accent instead of a good, honest egalitarian Australian accent. By the way, your name rings a bell. Are you the Max Rowley who a) was voice-over man for Tony Barber's Temptation and Great Temptation out of Station ATN-Sydney, and b) head of your own school of radio announcing?

    • @dav4x487
      @dav4x487 5 лет назад +1

      The reason narrators, singers and radio presenters spoke in this manner was because of the microphones and sound recording technology of the day was primitive and had nothing to do with trying to sound up themselves or trying to put on an English accent.

    • @OldAussieAds
      @OldAussieAds 3 года назад

      So the technology couldn’t handle an Australian accent? Only British?

  • @neilforbes416
    @neilforbes416 6 лет назад

    After that dismal narration I'd want to puke!

    • @adrianjackson2696
      @adrianjackson2696 4 года назад +1

      A different era but better than Hoge's when he opens his mouth.

    • @bigears4014
      @bigears4014 Год назад

      You could of turned the volume off