Northland Shopping Centre, Melbourne Australia, 1968 | 16mm Film Print

Northland Shopping Centre is located in the Melbourne Australia suburb of East Preston.
This film was made a couple of years afterf the Centre’s 1966 opening, the first indoor shopping mall in the state of Victoria. Built and owned by the Myer Emporium, it was sold to the Gandel Group in 1983 and is currently owned by GPT and Vicinity Group, and has seen substantial increase in size and several refits.
Across the road can be glimpsed the Olympic Twin Drive In that opened in 1964. The name changed to Northland Twin Drive In, operated by Village, in 1966 and closed in 1987, just after Hoyts opened their #Northland cinemas in the shopping centre across the road.
Although the film print was substantially unstable and damaged, it has been brought back to a reasonable level in this recent edit. No attempt was made to remove scratching and other blemishes at this stage.
Notably the film stock used, #Ferrania P27 16mm, was held in high regard at the time, and its reputation survived a long period of being obsolete and unavailable, until last year when a new company was formed in Italy to resuscitate the brand and the stock type, with predominantly a P30 tag.
Photographers have expressed a keen desire to apply the stock to still and movie use, from Super 8mm, 16mm and 35mm gauges.The digital transfer was done on a new generation #Retroscan Mark II scanner, manufactured in the USA by the Moviestuff company.

[@dennisneo1608]

I have fond memories of Northland with my mum, in the mid/late 70s. Downyflake Donuts, Myer cafeteria... Good times.

[@Snagglet00th]

I remember seeing Daryl Somers playing Aladdin at the Pantomime in Northland early 70's

[@letstudy2day]

Wow this is amazing

[@rainscratch]

Thanks for watching. Sure has changed since those early years of Northland, when a lot of people were saying it would not work in that (at the time) out of the way location near a creek. That was the idea of the big N tower to signal where it was apparently. The tower had to be taken down after it was swaying dangerously in strong winds.

[@redfox2045]

I used to go to a school 2 streets away. We could see the big n sign sway in the wind. From our classrooms. That’s why the took it down

[@rainscratch]

Yes it did look a bit unstable at that height. Thanks for watching

[@redfox2045]

@@rainscratch thanks for posting about my old stomping ground. I spent over 30 years living around that area cheers

[@rainscratch]

@@redfox2045 What school did you go to?

[@redfox2045]

@@rainscratch Preston North East state school 65 to 71 cheers

[@aussielegacy2446]

@@redfox2045 i lived in laurel st and went to the same school. but a few years after you did. 75-81

[@wendyquach3371]

🤩

[@leopoldonotarianni8663]

There's a HK Holden Kingswood and a XT Ford Falcon in there...
It would be 1968

[@rainscratch]

Thanks Leopoldo for picking that up - have changed title.

[@leopoldonotarianni8663]

You're welcome.
It may even be as late as 1969 (or possibly even 1970 but I still think it's 1968 as there's not a lot of HKs or XTs. As the replacement HT and XW were replaced in May and June 1969 ...

[@ilhanuysal7628]

Hi Rainscratch,
I actually work for Northland Centre Management. We would love to feature this footage on our channels. How do I go about contacting you regarding this?

[@rainscratch]

Hi Ilhan, easiest way is to link to this video from your website or channel. Can I get your email please to discuss more.