Canberra in the1920s (compilation)

[@Tom-ye5dn]

The houses being built now are just cardboard boxes with a nice coat of paint. And it only costs your entire life to pay it off.

[@playwme3]

Not cardboard boxes, polystyrene boxes. Did some work on one out in Gungahlin the other day. Not even 10 years old and stuff falling off left right and centre. Literally made of painted foam panels.

[@blackwoodrichmore4531]

Cardboard box? Aye, you were lucky!. There were 26 of us, all living together in a hole in the ground, & we were Lucky to have it, mind you. We used to have to get up in the morning at half past 12 at night, then go to work down in the mine for 36 hours every day... With nothing to eat but a handful of freezing cold gravel. Then when we got home from work at night, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt. But you try telling the kids of today that, & no, they won't believe you... ⛏️ 👴🏻

[@chrisgurney2467]

it's amazing to see how spread out and isolated Canberra's parts were in the beginning, now it's all so compact and smooshed together XD

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

Kind of like sydney in a way

[@bronwenewens1198]

The architecture of Civic and of the old Parliament House are beautiful.

[@scroungasworkshop4663]

A lot of work has been put in to restore these images. Thanks National Film and Sound Archive.

[@NFSAFilms]

You're welcome.

[@jameslewis6526]

Amazing - and no Lake Burley Griffin, makes such a difference

[@overworlder]

I will send this to my dad. He was a kid in Canberra in the 30s and 40s. Sent away to boarding school in Melbourne during the war.

[@emmaleelove315]

So amazing to see what my hometown looked like when my great grandma was a child

[@smellylorenny]

Wow so fascinating and haunting, especially to see the walkways of the Sydney and Melbourne buildings 5:17, the amount of times I've walked the same path, looked down towards the Bus depot, mooseheads, passed kebab shops, it's so strange to see it in pristine condition 100 years earlier. These people could never have began to comprehend just how much would change. Mind blowing. Really great footage!

[@DonzLockz]

Excellent footage, great to see our history, even if it's not that old. 👍😉🇦🇺

[@Rust_in_Time]

Never seen so many crowds in Canberra. Look at 8:33, it was so busy back then that they needed a bus service! How times have changed....

[@stephenmundane]

5:54 Eastern side of Snow's Corner Clothing Store (The Melbourne building), corner of Northbourne Avenue and London Cct. I think it's the Commonwealth Bank now though it continued as a clothing store under different names at least into the early 1960s.

[@jonathanm9436]

If you look slightly earlier in the film, the Commonwealth Bank is on the opposite corner. kzbin.info/www/bejne/opfcl4R6YtVneJo

[@paula805]

Wow, the Sydney and Melbourne buildings looked so out-of-place 100 years ago. Interesting how the city has filled in around them. Thanks for uploading.

[@petergraves2085]

Quite remarkable the negative attitudes that Australians have for their national capital. Yet continue to have childish arguments as to whether Sydney or Melbourne is the better city. And then complain about the difficulties and expense of living in either. You vote for the people who represent you and come to the national Parliament. Their decisions do not represent the city - as much as the very lazy media persist and love to squeeze government into the lazy headline "Canberra today decided ...". Two tips. (1) the city where you choose to live is good for you. (2) Every nation has a capital city - very few have a capital that was designed from the beginning. To represent the nation in the nation's interest.

[@zxjacko]

The media aren't lazy for calling the government "Canberra" -- it is common practice to refer to "Beijing" or "Brussels" etc... its called metonymy. The negative attitude towards Canberra isnt just based on the fact that thats where politics is done -- the city itself sucks. I invite you to come here, Sydney and Melbourne are much nicer.

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

So with that Church , Canberra has older buildings than most state capitals

[@kerriebailey8459]

Weird to see a big, imposing building being raised in the middle of……………nothing!

[@scottlewisparsons9551]

I like Canberra. Thank you for a very interesting video.

[@buckyseto]

So crazy to see a sheep paddock behind civic, and the Sydney/Melbourne buildings never looked so clean! Such cool footage

[@danrobinson572]

I wonder how much it cost to build that building back than? Compared to building something like that now?

[@kedragold]

6:19 Those buildings are still there to my knowledge, though almost definitely been renovated over the century. Pretty wild seeing a place I walk down every now and then one hundred years ago.

[@thepsychologist8159]

Are these the same buildings in 8:23? Sydney and Melbourne Buildings?

[@rain12vr]

⁠Im pretty sure the Sydney and Melbourne buildings are built for the rivalry and the fight to be the capital.

[@cdxx6770]

Wow is that the Sydney building?

[@overworlder]

Both.

[@johnclayden1670]

Still there, looking much the same but plans to refurbish I believe.

[@jayjia]

Never expected Commonwealth Bank was already there since then!

[@shenysys]

One of the founders of the Commonwealth Bank was King O'Malley and he was also involved in the founding of Canberra.

[@android12921]

Canberra is unique, pristine and proudly progressive. Love it.

[@jesse4202]

Unique in its love for cars over public transport and walkable suburbs? The misuse of a planned city for a car dependent suburban sprawl is the biggest crime in Canberra's short history

[@batmanlives6456]

@@jesse4202 and don’t forget the WORST drivers in Australia

[@jonathanrabbitt]

@@jesse4202 I agree. It would have the most per-capita kilometres of dual-carriageway roads and fly-over interchanges/bridges of any city in the world.

[@overworlder]

@@jesse4202 - No different to anywhere else. It simply reflects town planning dogma over its history - WBG designed a European/American high density city with 8-story blocks and trams, an English suburban garden city was built in the 20s and 30s, it sprawled into an LA-style network of freeways in the 60s, and now it's all urban infill, increasing density and mixed-use precincts.

[@pebblepod30]

@@jesse4202 What a wasted opportunity.

[@davemustaki134]

Where's that filmed? 7:31

[@duncanyourmate2433]

Again thank you NFSA , an we all know at that time Queanbeyan was the happening place

[@danrobinson572]

How time has changed.

[@peterpiper831]

Amazing what a difference 100 years makes. Didn't see any horses/buggies.

[@overworlder]

1:24

[@davemustaki134]

No annoying cyclist's or scooters also

[@lesgriffiths8523]

What an extraordinary achievement....and there were only about 5 million of us ???........well done Australia. Les Griffiths.

[@bethetruth6428]

canberra in the RE making.

[@LukeXMV]

Can you post the footage of the concentration camp in Canberra around this time?

[@thepsychologist8159]

Internment Camp?

[@DavidBrown-hc3rq]

14:20 Is that roundabout?

[@planetX15]

We will never know as this video only goes up to 9:42

[@rwilko9525]

It’s a 9 minute video...

[@duncanyourmate2433]

5 to 1 must of been around the corner

[@rain12vr]

its the capital of roundabouts for a reason

[@colleenwinter7796]

So it’s basically just showing the city part of Canberra and the rest would still have being flat farm land

[@karlsbergkarl2230]

Well it did look good for an open air penal colony office block. Still is in't it ?

[@overworlder]

No more or less than any other office block.

[@tim4653]

wow this video is almost as exciting as the real place

[@axel20251]

Why???

[@exannuc]

Hahahaha 😂

[@Tarsus-y4d]

Nah Canberra is far more boring

[@garyp4374]

If you think Canberra is exciting I think you need to get out more

[@djpuglife2230]

Wow was not expecting to see the Melbourne building and the sydney building that was awesome sadly all they are used for now are umm mmhmm night life activities

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

👍

[@kushedisonyunus4820]

Even Hyatt's entry looks the same - exactly 100 years to my wedding.

[@markjones7687]

Odd, it is from the NFSA but there is no sound. A little music and commentary like this is looking from Mt Ainslie to Capital Hill or this is the Sydney and or Melbourne Buildings would have added a lot. More broadly, the story of Nowheresville to the modern sophisticated town of today is a story worth telling. Bejesus, you can even get a decent coffee there these days. Mind you, I still haven't found a decent banh mee. You're not really an Australian town in the 21st century without a decent bahn mee.

[@harrywade8079]

This is where mooseheads is currently situated

[@yourdad9168]

It wouldn't add anything, if you already knew what you were looking at. Canberra isn't a town at all, it's a city and if the Banh mi is so good where you are, you should know how to spell it 😘

[@JamesHawkeYouTube]

A very strange town, with a very odd history. No real construction imagery here. A scattering of people who seem out of place, like actors sent in to look busy. Grand architecture in the middle of nowhere. Buildings that seem to have already existed. A capital city where nobody was.

[@johnclayden1670]

Great place - but did Fox News really start here?

[@overworlder]

No, his first paper was in Adelaide.

[@Tarsus-y4d]

Nope

[@w87g8765]

Fox news was found in the US. One of its founder, also the most famous one, Rupert Murdoch originally started his news media businesses by inheriting the businesses from his father in Adelaide.

[@kushedisonyunus4820]

Also, should have bought houses and lands then.

[@petergraves2085]

Thanks for reading. The ACT's land has always been leasehold - not freehold. It cannot be "bought", because of an excellent decision very early to avoid the private profits realised by real estate speculators buying up and re-selling the lands of the nation's capital. The ACT's lands are owned by the people of Australia.

[@bennettbennett681]

No matter how you try to frame it, Canberra turned into a town full of boring and uninteresting people, living in an overpriced over governed boring landscape. Far too expensive and no redeeming aspects.

[@Adonnus100]

There are redeeming aspects, there are less morons here than other states (better education). Also, there's much more room than Sydney, less traffic, less people and more nature...

[@planetX15]

Wish Melbourne was still the capital of Australia

[@hughmcinally907]

Would you really want all those muppets there, or do you live in Canberra?

[@LukeXMV]

And what happened to the Aboriginals living there? Not once mentioned that the British killed them.

[@overworlder]

It's silent film and a different time. There's Ngunnawal people still living in Canberra, the original inhabitants.

[@JJSPARROW1978]

Such as waste of valuable farm land. I guess if we return it back to farm land it will be extremely fertile given the amount of sh*t taking place there.

[@overworlder]

Thank the MPs flown in from the rest of the country for that.

[@GigaChadiusTheStoic]

Really wish they put more effort into those buildings, ugly af brutalist architecture

[@batmanlives6456]

The most over rated over inflated prices, unfriendly city anywhere Even the locals refer to pricing as including Canberra tax Blatant rip off

[@overworlder]

I find Canberra people no different to anywhere else. You probably brought that problem with you. Blame the Reith PS reforms in the 90s for the rest. It forced public service wage inflation as agencies competed for staff. Before that, staffing levels and wages were centrally controlled and pegged to the actual work done. Higher median wages, the market charges what it will bear. Example - Woden is one of the most expensive Woolworths in the country, the one in struggle town Queanbeyan over the border is one of the cheapest.

[@jaynedavis3655]

And it’s as boring now as it was then , YAWN 🥱

[@SydneyDrums]

Could have built the capital on the coast but, no. Let’s build a crappy city in the middle of nowhere

[@duncanyourmate2433]

Thus the rail link to Jervis Bay , War paranoia , turns out well founded , subs Sydney 1942 ,

[@thepsychologist8159]

There are many reasons why this location was chosen as the capital. Crappy city? It used to be, but having lived here all my life, it's now a place you can actually call 'respectable'. Although, I do like Melbourne much more.

[@thomaselliott573]

What a catastrophe Canberra was and still is. The result of disagreement which came to the worst possible compromise and we are still handicapped by it. The rshole of Aus.

[@overworlder]

You're welcome to stay away.

[@8888k]

What’s wrong with it?

[@android12921]

Please define the catastrophe you have in mind. Disagree on its English meaning.

[@swinetrek]

The peopleof Canberra are as pissed off about the goings on in Parliament House as the rest of Australia.

[@jesse4202]

@@8888k It's become a car dependent suburbia. so much wasted potential