1950s Cairns Tourism - 'Tropical North'

CW: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following film may contain images and voices of people who have died.
Tropical North (1954) - Australian Commonwealth Department of the Interior
Copy created by Queensland State Archives: www.archivessea...
Promotional film most likely developed by the Federal Government to promote Australia overseas. Footage includes life and work in the tropical areas of northern Queensland, together with a description of the type of country found there. Includes: views of tropical rainforest including native animals; cultavating and cutting sugar cane; fishing in the waters near innisfail; town of Cairns and it's inhabitant; Cairns Harbour; and lakes in the tablelands.

[@samirdaric2493]

As it was beautiful in the 50s it is now even more beautiful. Love the far North, people are so helpful and genuine. Love you Australia 🇦🇺

[@paulgrima3812]

Cairns today in 2022
Please take me back to the 60’s 70’s ....
Loved it 💕💖💕

[@queenslander954]

True , but it’s still far better than the rest of Oz

[@dingodancer]

Exactly.

[@philipstevenson5166]

or indeed the 1770s

[@codzy3532]

im 59 and i can remember dad and mum driving through tolga scrub in 60s putting their lights on the car thats how dark it was an going down kuranda range u could hear bell birds and winter time is was foggy and the christmas beetles those stink beetles green frogs you dont see them up here no more sad this was a good old vid loved it thanks for sharing uploading i mean haha xox

[@queenslander954]

Yes Yes .. I remember , Xmas Beatles & stink Beatles & glowing night cane fires 🔥 .. don’t miss the toads but

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

@@queenslander954 Yep, those "Xmas Beatles & stink Beatles" - certainly no "Love me do" there! 🤔😜🤣🤣

[@supersuper7878]

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME FOOTAGE!!!

[@stache297]

I used to live in Innisfail, so glad I left 😂 I miss Cairns though

[@jayceorourke5672]

I know we have to eat, but they did clear too much of the 'scrub' unfortunately.

[@johnpro2847]

Australian voiceovers in mainstream media were mainly done by pommie immigrant to get the 'proper' diction. These days the Ozzie twang is quite acceptable.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

Yep. In those days only British cultured-voiced males got jobs fronting the publicly funded media outlets. Luckily nowadays it sometimes may seem as if a policy of "Only technicolour gender-disfunctional individuals with speech impediments need apply!" might have been substituted to redress the historical imbalance. 😉

[@crimsonthumos3905]

Australian accents also generally sounded more English than they do today

[@nocontent3124]

First...and only.

[@nocontent3124]

@@Mac-tz6ur now I am sad, this was a huge achievement for me...now it's all gone.

[@thebookbungalow529]

Well ill always remember you where the first to comment

[@404errorpagenotfound.6]

@@thebookbungalow529 finally, some recognition.
This video makes me nostalgic, haven't been north for 30+ years.

[@xr6lad]

lol @ warning. How primitive.