City In The Sun

From the Film Australia Collection. Made by Alasdair Loch Productions 1947. Directed by Alasdair Loch.

[@BodyWellnessHub]

What a wonderful time. A more homogeneous society with better shared values. I remember fondly the tram rides as a child at the time.

[@beercanbarka7678]

Take me back to those days pleeeeesse 😊

[@peterclose1446]

Not too sure about the 6pm swill tho'😊😊

[@roydidlock1012]

"No particular Australian city", but filmed almost entirely in Sydney. Lots of great sights.Pyrmont bridge, the Milsons point "Trams only"bridge. Trams in Elizabeth,king,Geoge st and Broadway. Potts Point trolleybuses in Liverpool ,Park and Macleay sts. the fabulous art deco T&G building, the AWA building and tower ,Farmers store, Elizabeth st David Jones ,Wynyard ,Museum and St James stations, the magnificent old departure board at Central, Milk Bars,Luna Park ,the six o,clock swiil and jitterbugging.A great little film,thank you NFSA for posting.

[@NFSAFilms]

Thanks Roy. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for all of the location information.

[@7s29]

Love these films, I wish it was like that today.

[@patrick6350]

+Jim the 6 O'clock swill might yet return to Sydney the way things are going.

[@bethsheeba1198]

A great video. Wish Sydney still looked like that.

[@Mynewlife2025]

Would've been excellent night life compared to now. I'd kill to be walking around Sydney in the late 40s.

[@aussieraver7182]

True, same here. But im brown.

[@Elitist20]

Still had the six-o'clock swill in pubs though, up to 1955.

[@jaquilane5732]

Fantastic video. I love the fact that Wynyard Station is packed with people - no change there. More interestingly, no traffic lights.

[@hebneh]

I appreciated the stereotypical “busy city” theme music at the end, which was a requirement in such upbeat promotional films at the time, and into the 1960s.

[@marknahuysen]

Fabulous snippet. And great to see that the air is so much clearer in 2022 that it was in 1947!

[@beercanbarka7678]

Where did it all go so wrong ..breaks my heart , living in this society we now call life ..😡

[@steveone]

@blindtoby Youre right its basically television that changed peoples aspirations from wanting a happy life to wanting possessions .

[@johnterry3312]

@@steveone TV changed the culture in almost all nations.

[@darioburatovich2240]

......nothing went "wrong", this is how it was ment to be. Consumerism.was instilled in people's minds to demonstrate and to "prove" capitalism.with all its toys and "pleasures" was better than regulated life in the communist world so that a common sence ruled life was replaced by individualistic self gratification thru overconsumption. Climate change and pandemics were the resulting "subproducts" of so much "happiness". AI and automation will "fix it", the price it will cost will be our humanity and a great portion of Humanity itself. Enjoy your western world's shopping.and the wide range of product "choices". We've been warned by Fidel, but You didn't like it. Sorry, but by now the whole cake its mostly eaten. This is what its left, this is what we've got. And the coming wars.

[@RaveDave871]

At vege stall "Nice ripe football" ! You taking the p*ss captions guy ? 😂

[@boppa99]

This is The Best Old Sydney,I have Seen,Thankyou For posting :)

[@haroldmclean3755]

Great Footage, I know many of those Stone buildings very very well

[@chiefchook]

Thanks for loading this great short. Best I've seen on Sydney; excellent photography, editing, commentary - and it shows trolley buses. And there in the final seconds is an aerial view of Anthony Horderns. Wonderful!

[@NFSAFilms]

+John T Hi John, yes an interesting film and some quite unusual editing given the type of film.

[@davidlang1125]

This should have been titled “Sydney in the sun”.

[@stuart.8273]

Wonderful ancient footage. The happy "jolly" orchestral music, the badly sped-up film, the repeated scenes, the "voice sound" of that era captured on audio. But in an unemotional and critical sense, whilst it claimed to be no one particular city, there was nothing "easily" detected about Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, let alone Darwin. There's an island south of us all... Tasmania, it has a city too - and they get sun. The majority of fantastic shots were Sydney and Melbourne - but frankly that was a lazy way of doing a documentary. Having said all that, it was still terrific to see. Thanks sincerely for uploading it.

[@annod6]

wow born 10 years after this

[@joshuataylor6087]

Looked more fun, exciting and beautiful then than it does now. To think they knocked down all of those gracious and majestic old building to build a festival of cheap and ugly monstrosities that Sydney is now.

[@mattanderson6336]

1:20-"Men and women wanting to break with their humdrum everyday lives and do something about it." If I wasn't retired already I would do something about it too.

[@jasoncarpp7742]

1:20: I can relate to that. As much as I enjoy where I live, I like to travel, and visit other places.

[@douglipscomb3002]

Not a mobile phone in sight!

[@lostinspace699]

the awa tower was the tallest thing in Sidney it was there till a while ago

[@NFSAFilms]

Still there. If you can spot it amongst all the skyscrapers.

[@Cadcare]

Yep. I see it at lunchtime most days. The tower is still gleaming white but alas without the "AWA" logo. Just the tower. Wasn't the foyer where they filmed a scene in the Matrix?

[@lostinspace699]

@blindtoby Where,,,,

[@klyvemurray]

Hi NFSA I very much enjoy the content of your channel...Thank you! Sadly, I couldn't get more than 3 minutes into this one, as I found the narration to be annoying. Alasdair Loch's accent was just way too "BBC British" (even for me) LOL Thanks again for all the great work you do in restoration, digitization and archiving! .

[@NFSAFilms]

Hi My Mother The Car, thanks for letting us know. With such a varied collection there are bound to be some films that don't appeal. We get a lot of comments about the "received pronunciation" in some of our earlier films. This form of narration was common (and required) on broadcasting services such as the ABC (adopted from the BBC). Thank you for watching and we hope you will find some other films here - sans mouth plums :)

[@gyrovague]

All that fruit would be nice in ration-hit Britain.

[@adrianjackson2696]

5:25 Who said the mini skirt was invented in the mid 1960's.

[@fredsalfa]

Sounds like England to me !

[@Punk510]

Its now called an Australian city... A city over run

[@mattanderson6336]

1:20-"Men and women wanting to break with their humdrum everyday lives and do something about it." If I wasn't retired already I would do something about it too.