Life In Australia: Hobart

[@ShevillMathers]

I would not mind stepping back in time and smelling the roses instead of exhaust fumes. Remember taking the kids to the Cat &Fiddle arcade-open air in 1968. Much better family oriented days/times back then. We have lost a lot in the name of progress.

[@kaitamybull915]

camera man- Peter McKinley, my grandfather :) love this! thanks for uploading.

[@NFSAFilms]

Wow, thanks for letting us know. I'll check what other films of his we have uploaded and let you know.

[@kaitamybull915]

thank you so much!

[@MuhammadImran-hm1dk]

@@kaitamybull915 o really

[@Ghostmanriding]

Nice !

[@bull716]

Back when our country had pride in everything we did !

[@mvg2x34]

Based on these movies, Australia in the sixties was a very idyllic place to live.

[@rick182z]

if you were white and middle class

[@mikehobart]

This brings back a lot of memories. I lived in central Hobart from 1951-1986 and many of these scenes were ones that I saw every day. Any baby boomers from Tasmania will find this engrossing.

[@FranticMonster11]

all before my time...born in 79! but this is awesome!

[@MsDigiom]

What a trip down memory lane. I used to work at Silk & Textiles and also at Cadburys. We did a school excursion through the zinc works. My memories are so clear of the Cat and Fiddle Arcade being so delighful - not like now!

[@SoniaH-m4g]

Such a different time, when we still had manufacturing and full time jobs for the lower and lower middle class. I remember watching the cat, fiddle and cow jumping over the moon in rapt attention and the very rare luxury of a bowl of chips and a frog in the pond jelly at the in store cafeteria near by.

[@suecollins8199]

Moonah 10 pin bowling was a popular after hours/supervised activity for the intrastate high school sports in Summer & Winter. We were billetted in homes, me @ Mary's Hope Rd by a Rosetta High School student & her @ West Launceston by me, a Prospect High School student. RIP Keryn Bridge.🎉😢❤

[@6ixConfessions]

11:58 The Cat & Fiddle Arcade was a highlight for my siblings & I, whenever we visited Hobart. Damn but we were easy to please back then.

[@geoffbell166]

There will never be times like that again...

[@tedoneilclark4710]

Another time another place another world 😄❤️😄

[@marknahuysen]

I love the old music in these films! So evocative.

[@officialWWM]

It's 2020 and now the posty is riding a 3 wheeled electric cart... The Cat n Fiddle clock is still there but it's completely closed in in a great big mall now :/ Moonah bowl is still there and has barely changed at all!

[@tasmaniantrains]

The ferry at 11:16, berthing at Princess Wharf No. 3 is indeed the Empress of Australia. Launched at Sydney's Cockatoo Dockyard in 1964, she was an ANL roll-on roll-off liner for use on the triangular Sydney - Hobart- Bell Bay - Burnie run. The Empress replaced the Princess of Tasmania (the "Pot") on the Devonport - Melbourne route in 1972, ending the service to Hobart.

[@vittorioven]

Wonderful childhood memories, especially Cat and Fiddle Arcade as it used to be!

[@oscar35575]

Fabulous memories.

[@madelinecooper9981]

This is so cool. I knew my grandpa was in a video but I didn't realize it was this one until I watched it. He is one of the men leaning at the bar in the pub. I can't remember the name of it. It was great to see it. Wish I lived in the 60s :)

[@NFSAFilms]

Hi Madeline thanks for letting us know. With regard to the bar this comment was posted two years ago by The Brisbane Hotel Hobart "the bar that is featured at 12:50 is The Brisbane Hotel. It was called The Ye Olde Commodore Inn back then and the Licensee (1958 - 1973) was Helen Wallace Kerr. It was owned by The Hobart Football Club, i'm not sure when the bought it but the sold it on in 2008. It is now a live music venue."

[@madelinecooper9981]

That is so cool how it has changed over the years. i love how we can go back in time with this video and see how people lived back. :)

[@rosssmith4638]

So many memories came back of when I was a little boy. There is still nothing like Hobart.

[@61springs]

Great. If filmed in 1966 I was only 5 but can remember the Zinc Works, Cadbury's, Cat and Fiddle, Swimming lessons at Wrest Point in the sea pool before the Casiono was built........ahhh those were the days.

[@chloenichols8881]

Wow, Hobart really hasn't changed much. This is fantastic! I would love to re-film this today!

[@0pensourcegamer]

If you live there please do it! Would be very interesting to watch.

[@officialWWM]

Sadly, you're right. Lots of people here still living in the dark ages...

[@marcozolo3536]

That's not always a positive. Hobart lags behind all the other capitals because of its low population. It should be at least between the populations of Auckland and Adelaide. There really is no excuse. It would be a much more vibrant place, that's for sure

[@xr6lad]

@@marcozolo3536 yawn. Yes because being civilised means being open 24/7 with a big population.

[@marcozolo3536]

@@xr6lad Bingo, now you're getting there. Plus of course the economic benefits to the state and job growth.

[@magw21]

I vaguely remember Cat and Fiddle being open-air with the fountain - what a shame it was changed!

[@louisafarmer2385]

Oh my goodness! I lived in Hobart as a child during the early eighties! This is seriously freaky. Like a time machine. 😱👍❤

[@meekhinglim4829]

I love those olden days where people mind were simpler and friendlier. Also the way people dressed up and the cars they drove

[@meekhinglim4829]

@Don dunstan You don't under English to shout rubbish !

[@lorenzomagazzeni5425]

That lovely Ford Falcon made in Australia - bullet proof cars.

[@pmacgowan]

Boy this brings back memories

[@tarkineWild]

What a lovely snapshot of life ,work and suburbia in the 1960's Looks so prosaic in contrast to 2013

[@knocknapeasta]

I liked the blue light on the Tasman Bridge... Nice to see that there was once a functioning public transport system at one point with trolley cars and trains, maybe it'll return one day?

[@hypercomms2001]

Interesting the change that what is now "Australia Post" was "Royal Mail" back then...

[@NFSAFilms]

Hi this film was released in 1966. Nearly 50 years ago!

[@deanpd3402]

@blindtoby So do I. I started working in the post office in 1974, in Sydney and this film reminds me how much of a sense of duty workers in the PO had back then. Many of the people I worked with, fought in the war. They were a terrific bunch of people.

[@NFSAFilms]

Thanks to all for the information provided so far. Lots of details we didn't know about so please keep them coming. Much appreciated.

[@hopo2hopo]

Lovely old film and music. Love it!

[@kazzbriggs]

Excellent. Loved the old footage of how it was when it was so much more simple

[@Bebopalula5]

Wish the casino hadn't been built. It's such an eyesore compared to what the coastline looked like without it in this video.

[@HistoryIover]

1:39 the bridge you see is the Tasman bridge back in 1975 a ship crashed through one of the support beams it made a huge part of the bridge collapse about 20 people died I’m pretty sure because they drove their car accidentally off the bridge and also includes some crew from the ship

[@NFSAFilms]

Hi Igloo - great information, thank you. Glad you got the comments box working.

[@AdenCrockerTV]

This makes Hobart look beautiful for sure

[@chrisjohnson6876]

Great upload, thanks. By heck, times have changed. very little PC or safety back then, but they managed

[@peternagy-im4be]

Yes a much better time.

[@coltal1]

wonderful.. it brought back so many memories of life in Hobart.

[@Runningrampage25]

%100 love this video thanks for uploading it! one happy guy watching this!

[@jasonmackinnon4552]

I agree!

[@seceber]

Thanks, the jazz is beautiful

[@seanknot]

travel lodge should get that sign back, it's like we didnt quite know what direction to go with the design of hobart, with that new lexus building kinda seems like we still don't? Brass building by the water, brass in the city. Guess were trying to look like new york /?

[@johnwlamp]

09:35 - Prof B I H Scott in Physics Lecture Theatre #1. He was Reader in Biophysics. 09:49 - The paper tape reader on the Elliott 503 computer in the Hydro/University Computing Centre

[@DaffodilDaze]

Love the Zinc Works, and Cadbury and Sheridan (my nan used to steal the fabric when she worked there :-) Concert is in the Theatre Royal I think, I wonder if the school is Rosebay High School? the colours look right (if dated) and the location is right. Loved it!

[@mervhill1]

The band is The Kravats - first shot is Richard "Tich" Millhouse and Ray Woodruff.

[@BaronBoy100]

@Conniptions886 Your absolutely right - it is the Cadbury's factory - it used to have its own rail service for both workers and visitors. The scenes shot on the Dragon yacht show my late step-father at the helm. He died last year aged 91.

[@OrnumCR]

2:33 ambulance cuts off EJ/EH grey Holden sedan travelling in right hand lane!!

[@WHOmedia1]

Send it to Scotty's Cameras :)

[@shystymcshysterson]

I love how the university looks. I can't believe how old those buildings must be! Same goes for that wing of the hospital that you can see -but they're thinking of updating that

[@skhochay]

nice postal man got some beer then went back to work

[@johnwlamp]

The HUCC was a set of rooms on the second level of the Physics Building, not a separate building at that time. The new computing centre was built when the Burroughs B6700 was purchased.

[@lindsay6207]

The Tasman Bridge did not get 5 lanes until after the ship ran into it. They added it as they repaired it :)

[@vittorioven]

The music reminded me of the "Adventures of the Seaspray" theme and sure enough, both by the same author!

[@shqwayne]

I lived in Hobart from 2009 to 2014. Perhaps I met some some young people in this film, they were no longer young in front of me though.

[@allclarity]

Great clip! :-) Thanks to all.

[@wanrohanabintiwomar4488]

Beautiful life..tqvm..

[@dukenemesis]

Damn the 60s look awesome.

[@johnd8892]

1:38 . Looks like the Tasman Bridge soon after opening on 29th March 1965.

[@thebrisbane]

the bar that is featured at 12:50 is The Brisbane Hotel. It was called The Ye Olde Commodore Inn back then and the Licensee (1958 - 1973) was Helen Wallace Kerr. It was owned by The Hobart Football Club, i'm not sure when the bought it but the sold it on in 2008. It is now a live music venue.

[@johnwlamp]

The black and white check meant "no standing" and was replaced by the standard yellow lines. (I preferred the black and white check as well!)

[@chmeee9562]

Hobart: The city where people are seen, not heard. :)

[@tye3333]

The pub at 13:00 is the Brisbane Hotel, at 19:13 is the old HEC, now HCC building, i have been working hard the last few weeks to turn all the neon lights back on... no luck so far.

[@KHARLOSLUIS]

i want to live there.... there is a paradise... australian is my dreams... maybe some day i will go there... nice video

[@Algol64]

Continuity alert, film crew! - In the pub, did you notice the Postie's pool ball change from solid purple nbr 4 as he hit it, to striped purple nbr 12 as it was sunk?

[@61springs]

I moved to Waimea Ave in Sandy Bay probably early 1970 after living in Launceston for a few years. I attended Mt Carmel and can remember going to Wrest Point to the Sea pool for lessons. Cant exactly remember who ran the lessons but they were very popular. The pool at that stage was a bit run down as the area was already earmarked for redevelopment. It was located right on the waters edge and would fill with sea water on the high tide. I can just remember it being 'green' and cold!!

[@Igloo3471]

Moonah Bowl featured there still exists today. A mate who has bowled there for years and worked there told me that it was opened 9/4/1963 by Bowling Centre Holdings and was then owned by AMF from 1968-2004. Macquarie Leisure International bought out a financially troubled AMF and revamped the centre before selling it to local businessman, Gabriel Haros in 2009, he leased the centre to AMF/Ardent Leisure who continue to this day.

[@nweare]

@brycer22 concert is in the San Carlo Hall, North Hobart. Beachcombers. there are two bands in the clip. one looks like the Kravats, but they hardly ever, if ever played the beachcombers as they were resident at the Spook Club. I think it may be the Silhouettes in the silky shirts, and the Boys or the Planets.

[@featherqueen3184]

11:38 An old Coles ☺️

[@nigwilnigwil]

9:47 - 9:57 shows the Elliott 503 computer operated by the joint Hydro-Electric Commission / University of Tasmania Computing Centre (HUCC). Although it cost the modern day equivalent of 2 million dollars, it is considered to have saved 10 times that amount by providing the results of calculations to reduce the amount of cement needed for hydro-electric dam construction. retroComputingTasmania for more details and additional pictures of this computer from 1964.

[@KeithTheAnimal]

"Top of the World" swimming pool was on the hill above Dynnyrne, probably around Caroline St - I went there for swimming lessons in around the time this film was made.

[@JBolivarDiGriz]

It was called "Top of the world" and was in Caroline Street on Dynnyrne hill. It was made private I believe in the mid 90's. I used to live two houses down. My old school friends used to sneak in there on weekends and have a night swim before people started living there.

[@breadandcircus1]

wonderful video

[@AUSTIn_FOX108]

Praying and hoping that I could be granted state nomination and visa so that I and my family can move to Hobart.

[@johnwlamp]

HUCC was several rooms in the Physics Building. The dedicated computing building was built mid seventies.

[@hermanexx]

Wonderful. Is this the late 60s? Most of those cars are still driving around Hobart. Some swinging music there too.

[@tarnsand440]

1966

[@NFSAFilms]

@ytaog Wow very specific information - thanks for posting.

[@neilmansfield8329]

Nice

[@61springs]

Haha...I do indeed. Mt Carmel used the pool for swimming lessons too. We also had our School Swimming Carnival(s) there. It was nicer than the Sea Poo and much the same size.... 25m from memory. I cant remember the name but 'Top of ......' sounds familiar!

[@TheWandererTiles]

A truly remarkable insight into life in Australia in the 1990s.

[@tarnsand440]

1966

[@alexandermorrison2218]

This is very impressive for 1966. America at the same time was experiencing a strain on its cities, so it wasn’t as clean lol

[@garyharry7]

A Long time ago when Tasmania made things 🤣

[@kathykirby7883]

I am pretty sure Silk and Textiles - which later became Universal Textiles in the textile factory shown. Cat and Fiddle certainly looked a heap better. My Mum used to take my children to the Coles Store shown for lunch. I think the band may be John Scott and the Planets but someone else may recognise them. The wedding is at St Marys by the looks of the front steps. Great clip and lots of nice memories

[@DreamOne79]

Snow and skiing mt wellington?

[@NFSAFilms]

Fantastic Nicholas. Had you seen this footage before? Thanks for posting.

[@switchnoob]

I think the concert at 18:00 is being held in City Hall

[@brettrogers8482]

NFSA Would love some film/equipment details if they're available please? Much more of a stills photographer than motion picture. But quality looks pretty nice for the day. Makes me wonder if it was shot on 16mm perhaps? The vibrant red of the post office vehicle makes me suspect the film stock was a Kodachrome, both for colour rendition and archival fidelity. Any details you might have gratefully received.

[@NFSAFilms]

Hi Brett. Not sure but Kodachrome is a good bet. This series was shot on 35mm. We have recently scanned these at 4K either from 35mm intermediates or original neg. They look great and bring out a lot of the detail. We will upload them here soon. Although not from the Life In Australia series this film of similar vintage was also scanned in 4K kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWqqfmeDpZ6oipY Of course viewing them on KZbin will always mean various quality compromises have to be made but they still look pretty good. Thanks for the comment.

[@brettrogers8482]

@@NFSAFilms 35mm! No wonder it looks so good. I'm impressed. Loved seeing it. Gorgeous stuff. I shot the last rolls of Kodachrome in Tasmania in December 2010 (PKR/35mm stills) before Dwaynes shut its K-14 line. Given that the colour rendition has held up so well I couldn't see this documentary being shot on anything else, it could have been Ektachrome but that's not as stable (well, it wasn't, in 1966, Kodak began making it again recently so time will tell I suppose). And the vivid but accurate red rendition is always a sign of Kodachrome, much later, Fuji's Velvia had/has striking reds, but not necessarily as accurately rendered as 1960s Kodachrome (there were many Kodachrome types, as I'm sure you know, with different characteristics, over nearly eighty years). Thanks very much for the extra information. Appreciated! Cheers, Brett

[@NFSAFilms]

Hi Brett, thanks for your thoughts. Ahhh film..... Just not the same as the "film look" filter in the digital world :\

[@LilacDaisy2]

3:25 - Men at work. Hot environment! What metal were the smelting? Into what? 4:44 - Women & men at desk jobs with ... maps? 5:10 - Women working fabric weaving machines. 5:30 - Men & women screen printing fabric. 6:20 - Train taking men and women to their jobs at a confectionery factory. 7:24 - _The Postman Always Whistles Once_ 7:41 - Men building a house with hand saws and without nail-guns. 8:15 - School that overlooks the water. 8:54 - Men and women at university. From polo shirts to suit & tie. 9:47 - Woman works a computer that ... punches holes and does mathematics??? I need a voice over. 10:06 - Uni and interracial couple fully accepted. 13:34 - Men and women bowling. 14:12 - Dad mowing the lawn while Mum and little Suzie garden. 13:34 - Snow! 15:37 - Wow, navy ships moored at the end of the street. 15:53 - Small sailboats. 16:50 - Wedding bells. And a wedding. 18:06 - A band plays in the town hall for teenagers to dance ... strangely. Wonderful! Though, a narrator would have helped.

[@NFSAFilms]

You did pretty well without one though. All that work and we don't even pay you. Thanks. :)

[@LilacDaisy2]

Selfish reasons. It's so I have a reference, to jump to a scene when I need inspo/info for writing fiction set in this era. :-)

[@NFSAFilms]

@@LilacDaisy2 All the better. Two birds...

[@johnd8892]

3:25 My hunch confirmed by Wiki of Zinc refining : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolytic_Zinc Many uses for Zinc so valuable. 6:20 Almost certain is Cadbury at the Hobart suburb of Claremont en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury%27s_Chocolate_Factory,_Tasmania One of the major tasks of Hobart suburban trains until replaced with cheaper buses for those minority not increasingly driving. 9:47 Rare and expensive mainframe computers were instructed by coded paper tapes or punched cards. She may be just a key punch operator or data centre worker rather than the very rare computer programmer in 1965. 13:34 Hobart made much of the few times a decade when there was snow on lofty Mt Wellington yet warm weather in Hobart at sea level. A few that I could comment on.

[@johnd8892]

A comment from 8 years ago was : 9:47 - 9:57 shows the Elliott 503 computer operated by the joint Hydro-Electric Commission / University of Tasmania Computing Centre (HUCC). Although it cost the modern day equivalent of 2 million dollars, it is considered to have saved 10 times that amount by providing the results of calculations to reduce the amount of cement needed for hydro-electric dam construction. retroComputingTasmania for more details and additional pictures of this computer from 1964. www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/

[@yurilemming4130]

a time when men wore their hats when driving, when you could just slide across the seat into the drivers position instead if walking around the car, when most sedans were 6 seaters & girlfriends could cuddle up to the driver without obstruction, ahhh bench seats. Fantastic vision of textile screen printing when coloured fabric prints brightened clothing & curtains. Forgot the postie blew a whistle when he had a letter for you.

[@qqq2211]

The Melbourne videos are fantastic, do you have any footage of the old Ampol service stations I've been on the lookout to see if there's any more around

[@annpeerkat2020]

14:15 back when I had lawn, that's what my lawns looked like after mowing it. That poor chap mustn't have anything else to do!

[@NFSAFilms]

Yes we do. Have a look at our channel page and the playlist for Melbourne and Victoria kzbin.info/aero/PLYjU0Xph-Gj42hfvfKhmtQLa7U7MvpXUt Also plenty more to come.

[@migmontest]

Isn't it much nicer when everyone has a job?

[@fordlandau]

Empress of Tasmania backing in to port !

[@happieade]

Ah...memories!

[@gwugluud]

I can see that in that part of the world, the 60s were still "the 50s", much the same as it was in Texas, USA, lol!

[@fordlandau]

gwugluud 77 it’s still the 1950s in Tasmania.

[@God-Emperor_Elizabeth_the_2nd]

There are still i few places stuck in time! Mildura, in victoria is still in the early 2000s

[@talmandan]

Yep! You still find a lot of that vintage charm, both in the place and the people.

[@stalkedfamilyguy]

so i can live in the 1960's can I go to woodstick also. but the place looks wonderfull. hope its still like that there :)

[@magw21]

At 16:54-17:05 is at Holy Trinity Church, North Hobart, and then from 17:06-17:32 is at St Mary's Cathedral, Harrington St, Hobart.

[@D-fu9sm]

12:28 is that Coles cafeteria?

[@lffit]

@nweare I remember all of this; including the cameraman who shot this Peter McKinley; come to think of Hobart hasn't changed all that much accept perhaps for the Casino Salamanca Place and the wharf area. A well made film.

[@lffit]

Ray died about 3 years ago? A top guy new him; had a manufacturer's agency at Moonah. I lived at one stage next door to the Millhouse guy, he used to hold band practise every Thursday night, this was back in the late eighties, don't know if the original band still existed then?

[@bradengeason]

Nice video