Life In Australia: Sydney

[@paulinus43ad]

The more I see this film the more I wish it was the sixties again, what a beautiful Australia it was .

[@leokimvideo]

All I know is Australia is NOTHING like this now. We barely manufacture anything, everything we buy is made in China. Now the whole family has to work or on welfare to survive. This film depicts the 'golden era' in Australia. Seeing how amazing Australia use to be is going to make me cry for days.

[@Jordan-mw1lb]

Adding to that, as each generation goes by they are more unlikely to afford to buy or even rent a house. Homelessness is going to sky rocket in the near future in Sydney. This place will only facilitate the upper class. Boooo Sydney

[@pureluck4988]

Not everything

[@Test-uj6nh]

yep those days are gone- notice no mobile phones or social media. The guys standing on the boxes at the park and talking to whoever listened - that was their "social media"

[@tobeannounced520]

Yes the clothes are not from 2 years ago too. Australian people are really poor now.

[@oinkooink]

It's all been planned. A meeting of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in Melbourne or Sydney, can't recall, in 1938 had delegates literally saying that the production of the world would go to China years later. The RIIA is an independent think tank which basically makes Gov policy, though it is unelected and unaccountable. This is just one of many points that could be examined. Society is engineered and steered at all times.

[@austfox2170]

‘Judy is working in one of the stores until she marries’... simpler times when a family with 3 or 4 kids could happily survive in Sydney on only one wage.

[@MisterMooo]

Today both parents need to work or one with a high income

[@neversaw]

Gotta say as a woman I’d prefer the rights and opportunities now 100%

[@anneshaw9681]

@@markhustle4826 Funny

[@dulls8475]

@@neversaw Working and the washing up?

[@CovidConQuitTheCensorship]

I came to the comment to quote this. It's practically impossible now for young couples to buy a house unless they're on high incomes. Sad

[@SeriouslyDavidD]

A snapshot of Australian when they had a economy with manufacturing.

[@rippenkitten1]

Like the rest of the world...

[@yurilemming4130]

Also saw long lines of blokes looking for work, menial jobs in Sydney, problem was migrants who had poor english found it difficult.

[@juzd6736]

I like watching these videos but find myself a bit sad or depressed after watching them. Life seemed to be about the people back then. Not the money.

[@markhustle4826]

Thank god for once a decent human pointing out whats important in life not just saying how Australia's change blah blah blah

[@AcePanno1]

I agree

[@club1fan552]

Worldwide people and companies became greedy. Decades back a young couple could afford to buy a house in Sydney without a huge commute. Work was plentiful. Work conditions were generous. Tertiary education for a time was free. Medical advances have improved and we live in a more liberal society but other than that cars, music, house design and social cohesion, in fact just about everything was better...

[@KingFahtah]

@@club1fan552 13:49

[@DarrenLDowns-wp2dr]

I love nothing better than in the Summer, opening a bottle of wine and watching these videos of Australia in the 1960’s.

[@HULK-HOGAN1]

This is a remarkable time capsule! Excellent restoration and bravo to the team involved with its production. Back when Australia felt like Australia

[@patriot388]

Find me a time machine! I wanna go back! The golden years of Australia!

[@lorenzomagazzeni5425]

"They are a weird mob" a book written in the 60s ? 5Os' was the representation of lovely Australia and it's values.

[@PCgonemad-ih9pr]

Beautiful days!! That will never be seen again.

[@kickinkanga7026]

Australia looks nothing like this now unfortunately... For many reasons... What a clean and prosperous time it was for Australians...

[@pgclift51]

Thanks for the great video. I was 15 in 1966 and it brought back many scenes that I could relate to. At 11.20 the scene is Coogee Oval. The rugby players in the green are Central Randwick and it's South Coogee in the red who I used to play for. Happy days (for the most part).

[@NFSAFilms]

Thanks for the information Phillip, and glad you enjoyed the film.

[@johnmcculloch5736]

I remember these days so clearly. The double decker carriages were introduced in the late 60s. Bring back those days please.

[@steviestrange]

Wow 1966 Sydney has more nightlife than 2019 Sydney.

[@TheAsiaCentury]

my dog wouldnt go out in sydney

[@Isleofskye]

How is your dog these days ? @ @@TheAsiaCentury

[@anneshaw9681]

@@TheAsiaCentury Your dog would be arrested after 10

[@anneshaw9681]

Such a boring city. No nightlife .

[@JH-jo9wt]

@@jaygray7102 Your full of shit Jay i reckon your 3rd world shit who Australia didn't let in now your having a cry about it- fucking stay in your 3rd world shithole

[@spudfrommars]

When the daughter got in the car and grabbed her make-up mirror at 1:27 I just naturally thought she grabbed her phone. How conditioned we have become.

[@jennyweyman3039]

Those houses were so well built.

[@sebbrazier5678]

I wish I could go back to then

[@MuckoMan]

Im from the US and it is sad what this world economy has done. Such good trusting neighbors are now strangers who won't give you eye contact. I grew up in the 70's in Boston and we were poor but everyone worked together and had morals and pride in our country. My mother was born in Italy and my grandfather from Scotland. One thing they had in common was respect for hard work and being humble. The culture was taught to be respectful and have family morals. We all kept each other in check. Then the lawyers came and ruined a system that was working perfectly. It looks like Australia had it more together. I have a feeling there is no coming back from this.

[@nonineveryoumind4314]

Yes, one an innocence has been lost, it’s gone forever.😢

[@TheTheTheTheTheThe]

I wish boomers weren’t so miserable about everything all the time

[@petergraves2085]

Thanks to the NSFA for putting up this (and the others, like Melbourne). 1966 was my first year of living in Manly and I often travelled on the "Dee Why" and the "South Steyne" Manly ferries, to my job in the Customs House at Circular Quay. Seeing all those wharves actually with ships berthed in them brought back my memories, especially the ways of unloading their cargo in slings by the wharfies. Before containerisation cost most of them their jobs. And those green double-decker buses, where sitting up top and up front gave the most amazing views of the passing world. They were such optimistic times.

[@AlbionTarkhan]

Our people built something so wonderful for ourselves. Why did we give it all away?

[@Lee-nh5bb]

Get more people in. Don't worry if that could cause social problems for decades to come.More people will buy more stuff. That's all that matters.

[@chrisheggie952]

Wow and OMG! I remember all of that and recognise so much as having been my life as a child of the '60s! That little Knox boy from next door at 2minutes and swimming across the T pool at the Ryde Swimming Centre Gladesville at 7 minutes might just as well have been me! So glad to see these old images again, such memories.

[@kiwaussiegirl]

Bought back great memories. Many thanks 🙂🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@gregdean2012]

Much better times back then compared to the present .

[@adrianr9307]

I lived in suburban Sydney from '71 till end of '73, loved it.

[@CalaisRider]

That's oh such a great video. It reminds me of my young days and things that were near and dear to us in the day, albeit 50 years on I now live in Brisbane, and how times have changed.

[@ManfromJapan12]

The 771 and 772 bus were from the Northern Beaches. There was a bus driver named Curly. He was known to all of us kids at the time. Lets just say that he used to turn a blind eye to the shenanigans on that long trip to Milsons Pt.

[@mrporsche4236]

Sydney in the sixties is like being in heaven.That time was special sydney is special

[@jenniferharrison8915]

My aunties, single working social girls, certainly enjoyed it! 🥳😁

[@lesroo]

Exactly as I remember it as a teenager in the 1960's, living in the poorer suburbs and travelling daily into the city for university studies and then weekends as a lifesaver on Bronte Beach. Oh, how sad to have lost these idyllic days for the over populated city, traffic snarls and technological 'disadvantages' of today. We worked hard, played harder and laughed longer back then!!!

[@greensceneBirds]

sure thing boomer

[@aerotuc]

mostly we were CIVILIZED then .im proud to have seen Sydney back then as a child.Including having many photos with the unfinished opera house in the background.

[@reekinronald6776]

Yes, I look at these videos from the 60s and whether it's Australia, US, or Canada, I can only see that we, as societies, have lost so much. Something happened in the 60s that started the decline.

[@sharongoodsell9341]

Here's an idea bring our practical school learning back I learnt so much as a child back then ! We all know it was better

[@artemisxw8708]

Film produced in 1966. I was 1 years old and migrated to Sydney in 1970 and we were the last boat of migrants entering Australia firstly arriving at Fremantle Port for processing then onto Melbourne and the migrant hostel then finally Sydney. I remember all those spots in this video, but those women got around, driving from Chatswood to Warringal Mall in Brookvale then Hyde Park in the city...

[@tedsmith6137]

That game at 11:40 is being played at Blick Oval, just above Canterbury racetrack. The railway line leads to Campsie station and my childhood home is off to the right of picture, near the white blocks ( the old Orion Markets) in the mid distance.

[@NFSAFilms]

Thanks for the info.

[@msBatFink]

Im 60 next year and im loving getting older..health wise im shot but i try to enjoy every day and i love the confidence I’ve gained by not caring what others think..thanks for the video and I wish you well :))

[@dekzzx]

Back when we actually produced stuff and didnt need both parents working and could focus more on the family unit.

[@chrism3225]

this was all part of the plan, to get both parents working [more taxes] & with both parents working before and after school care centres had more control of the minds of the children

[@dekzzx]

@@chrism3225 yep the state wants to extract as much as they can get from you and get their hands on your children as early as possible to condition them to support the system in future.

[@Mynewlife2025]

Back when you can leave work at work. Now constant new messages in telegram, WhatsApp and other annoying apps.

[@gregfowler957]

I remember being told that 1960s and 1970s Australia was so safe you could walk anywhere without fear of violence or gangs

[@kerryhart9418]

I wouldn't say that!

[@shenanigans3710]

Where is this violence and gangs? It's in your head, mate.

[@Mynewlife2025]

In the 60s and 70s they had razor gangs, bikies, sharpies and many more. Wasn't the safe haven people think it was.

[@sarahs1635]

Tell that to all the raped and murdered women in that time, continued abuse of indigenous peoples, and the children being sexually abused. It's rather that all the white dudes in charge cared less about those vulnerable.

[@aerotuc]

i never knew about gangs in the 60s.except bickie gangs but never saw any.

[@eshaylad9570]

Life looked so chilled back then

[@johnterry3312]

Everyone you speak to from that era says it was as well, must be true.

[@GM4mp035]

This video is a time machine back to happier and safer times. Australia is ruimed now. Theres no going back.

[@allanchapman6250]

I was 16 then yes I had the privilege to grow up in the best country and listen to the best music.

[@jonathanmichaelsmith9012]

How was Vietnam?

[@michaeljackson7197]

Wow,I’m so happy to have seen cronulla and it certainly brought so clarity to my father’s childhood growing up there at the time. It was certainly not as primitive as he has made out.Thank you so much for sharing this piece of treasure.❤️

[@lorenzomagazzeni5425]

It was like that, believe me. Overpriced cars but Holdens and Ford made in Australia were bullett proof and provided tons of jobs.

[@Maxkil]

these series are great, thanks! So many differences in people nowadays

[@Lex-Hawthorn]

@13:59 blond woman on stage , a young Nolene Brown... Wow i came here as a kid in 1969, went to school on these old double decker buses in 1971-72. loved them, and the old red rattlers. Remember a lot of these places, so much has changed over the years, things like we lost our country to foreign developers, and our govts became corporate owned..

[@alisonwonderland8680]

traffic is still as bad on the harbour bridge

[@dayz1058]

At least they had the forethought to build 8 lanes or whatever it is, unlike the bloody M5

[@ruaterea1122]

they need gps

[@CountNadir]

Yet in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, roads then and now are much more spacious as well as sidewalks. I just don't understand the lousiness of Westerners when it comes to city design. Not my preference at all. Just look at Singapore as one example. A much smaller but much more spacious country than Australia when it comes to city design.

[@chinahuman2000]

@@CountNadirSingapore?Yeah, where u paid 100k for a toyota camary.

[@danielhateley8290]

in England we have the m25.. x10 worse

[@Austinator430]

I'm a time traveler from 1966 and I have to say, I'm disappointed. Back to 1966, I go.

[@markhustle4826]

Make sure you destroy that time machine or put it on loop

[@Austinator430]

@Derek Thompson I actually disagree with that one. The plastic bumpers are perfectly justified. Think about the safety. If the cars were strong as metal, there'd be more injuries on accidents. Even airbags wouldnt be enough to save you on hard impact. That's why cars are much softer than they once were.

[@Austinator430]

@Derek Thompson Well as someone who's half your age, It wouldnt really be logical to argue with someone with your experience. It would be logical, however to ask what makes you say what you say. From what I understand, stronger cars cause a much more subtle stop which would likely cause injury as opposed to a weaker car.

[@bigears4426]

Now everyone has to work just to pay the rent, ie husband and wife

[@villiersman951]

@@mickcarson8504 yeh but dont forget the role the government has played in this

[@Seapin1]

How else are you meant to pay the rent?

[@-xnnybimb-9398]

@@Seapin1 Everyone, not just one person

[@JacquiMcCarron21]

or wife and wife, husband and husband or what about single people? lol

[@thomasallen436]

Brilliant quality!

[@SilkySkillsUnited]

They did a great job to mask the reality of the place. Let's go on a walking tour of Balmain, Glebe and Redfern in 1966 🤣

[@Religious_man]

The hard-working, labourous Australians made all these things. 13:50 A chilling warning about the future, more or less.

[@Markus_Andrew]

5:39 Oh wow, The Forest High School! My sister went there, I remember she had that uniform. In 1966 she was 15, so she might even be one of the older girls in that first scene. I was only 6 and the high school I would later go to, KIllarney Heights High, hadn't yet opened (it began operating in 1967). Watching this makes me feel like a kid again. Man, I miss the 60s. Such a great time to be a kid. And Sydney was such a great town back then. Now it's an overpriced, overcrowded, traffic-choked dump and I haven't lived in it for a bit over ten years.

[@patwaddington]

Yeah I’m from Wollongong and now that’s turning into the same thing. Overpopulated and expensive as. My parents got a quote on their house for 1.5 million. It’s a small 4 bedroom house :/ I’m looking to move soon. Just don’t know where

[@dickiewongtk]

Imagine working a factory job with enough salary to raise a family.

[@1223steffen]

True wish they brought factories back

[@KingFahtah]

Imagine working in a factory. In Australia

[@jonathanng5218]

The video quality is excellent! Loved the neon footage and street scenes

[@NFSAFilms]

Thanks Jonathan, recently scanned from 35mm film to 4K HD.

[@doctorbohr1585]

@@NFSAFilms 35mm is natural 4k 😀

[@NFSAFilms]

It's true that 4K is the first digital resolution to be able to capture all of the optical information in a frame of 35mm film.

[@doctorbohr1585]

@@NFSAFilms thanks for scanning them! 😇

[@myramay5023]

Loved those wonderful years ‼️👍☕💕

[@nancynewman1465]

So wonderful to watch loved this ! Sydney ❤

[@top40researcher31]

how life was so simple in those days

[@ic9135]

don't worry life wasn't as simple as the film makes out

[@ladyowl9187]

Everyone was dressed nicely....so polished.....

[@yaibadf6267]

Even the mechanics???

[@shanefromsydney2025]

My father told me stories about going out Saturday night in Sydney. We grew up in Alexandria. He'd iron his shirt and trousers and he'd say no men sat down on the tram so as not to crease the trousers. Just real gentleman back then. The women wanted to have kids and the man provided the money and support . As for the women I reckon they had the hardest job "raising all us kids" just a great time great people strong men and women who turned up every morning ready to get into it ...

[@Phase52012]

I was riding the RED RATTLERs (02:08) to and from work daily, 20 years after this film was made in 1966. (Some were still running in 1992).

[@MisterKN]

Fantastic time capsule of Sydney in the late 60's. Obviously the sanitised version with smiling slim happy people everywhere. That said I do romanticise for a simpler time where we were not all on our phones all the time and not so connected all the time. When the daughter gets in the car with Dad for a second I thought she was looking down on her phone. Haha. Ryde Pool at 12:01

[@dilligafwoftam985]

Early '60's ... before decimal currency which was 13 Feb, '66. Something in Woolies was 3/6.

[@anSealgair]

I thought she was for a second as well! But the only phone was inside on top of a doily on a table in the hall.

[@jennyt7612]

​@@anSealgair yes! My mother loved doilies & had them all over the house

[@kristizhang4473]

love those old films

[@Luke-1296]

I love the shots take from the helicopter. Especially the one of the city. From it you can see just how much the look of Sydney has changed.

[@ruaterea1122]

hardly any buildings

[@lifelongbachelor3651]

great days, great country. australia was a proper paradise in the 50s and 60s.

[@queenslander954]

Still is mate , if there’s too many punters down south then North Queensland is the good mail.

[@uncle7162]

@@queenslander954 . Mate I’m from mackay and all I can say is we’ve sunken during and after the war we could build our own planes tanks guns cars everything we even sent a satellite into space. Now strategically we’re completely reliant on others who bring us into crap which we don’t need to be in. We can’t even build cars no more now that’s sad. We’ve become a puppet to America to the point where the accents changed. When I was at high school the kids used to think I was a Pom just because my family were farmers and spoke with an old Aussie accent. It’s sad really

[@suekennedy1595]

I can remember wearing hats and gloves to church I was born in 1963.

[@peterthornton8254]

My old high school at 5:42. Our family schlepped over from Belmore to Harbord (now Freshwater) in 1960. Father bought a milk run, mother worked at Hanimex on Old Pittwater Rd, Brookvale. We rented a flat at Harbord then moved to the Frenchs Forest in a newly built house. Parents sold and owner built again in Merrilee Cres, Frenchs Forest, just behind the shopping centre formerly known as Arndale. Cost of new house and land (double brick, two-storey), big block of land? $20,000 all up. The times have a-changed ... for the better? Not sure. At least I'm still here.

[@DemonCuz]

I love that 1960s house. I wonder if it is still there?

[@top40researcher20]

the lifestyle was so simple in those days

[@willowbrooke1215]

I came here from NZ in 1987 and I got to ride the last of the red rattlers as they were being phased out. Feel kinda like part of history 😊

[@roberttudor455]

Really enjoyed this video. Its amazing to see how cities evolve.

[@R0d_1984]

crikey, i was born abit after 66, i remember those train, the ferries (had a few newer ones) and those buses...

[@inventor1978]

Love you! Life in Australia 👍😍😘

[@1964wingman]

No social media, no trolls, no hit and runs because people were texting while driving.

[@mads._.maddie1726]

its so weird to see people years ago walking through places I go through daily, like warringah mall, Narrabeen lake (near the end) and Hyde Park even the train line T1 which i often catch

[@nonineveryoumind4314]

I remember having a swimming costume just like the pretty blue one with the little skirt on the bottom as a child of about 8 or 9, only mine was in lemon. Such a pretty, feminine cozzy. In 1966, I was only 5, but I remember those days so clearly. Everything was cleaner, more polite and happy back then. The shops were full of variety and an infinite number of choices from which to select. The summers were long and warm with so much going on. Everything has since gone down hill so rapidly. People now are so rude and disrespectful to one another. Effective discipline has been all but wiped from society in general and manners are no longer common place. So many services have been discontinued, leaving us to serve ourselves, yet the cost of groceries and other items does not reflect this! Oh how I would just love to go back to that innocent, slower-paced life and time. 😩

[@nicoledeloncrais5940]

My husband was born here in 1965. My dad was born here in 1934. My grandad was born here about 1920. Both sides of my dads family are from Sydney as early as 1826. I miss the Aussie larikin "she'll be right jack!" Attitude 😢❤

[@jjj4875]

Is it me, or does everyone and everything look much cleaner then.

[@Nokden144]

Indeed

[@gokulm92]

Also so white

[@ilhamrj2599]

This is scripted of course, they (the actors) were directed to do so.

[@sohamahmoud9094]

@@Nokden144 سسثؤ

[@ryandonelan3416]

And happier

[@ryanbasilio9548]

God we've changed so much in 60 years.

[@timothy6283]

1950 60 and 70 Australian golden years

[@MattsScaleModels]

Not for all Australians.

[@fredmonroe656]

If only we could go back!

[@ruaterea1122]

id be screwed, im black lol

[@riley9663]

@@ruaterea1122 We'd all be screwed theres no WiFi.

[@robman2095]

@@riley9663 lol

[@kenwatson5562]

@ 14.00 minutes; That's Noeline Brown! Actress and comedian. Wonderful find.

[@48tilt]

Lots of slim healthy people.

[@MKay-dd7rh]

Nice film, Sydney looks good as usual…

[@rustydude93]

no smartphones what a time to be alive

[@paulinus43ad]

i would like my sydney to return to the sydney i grew up in and loved so much ,so sad it can never happen..

[@jais7981]

How old are you now

[@travelingman5762]

1966 not a worry in the world we were just ordinary people enjoying life

[@15sixmedia]

Now everyone hates each other.

[@rebeccafitzgerald3456]

Loved this !

[@One-Two_swift-kickbox]

It now costs over $1,000,000 to buy a house about 2 hours’ drive inland from that beach

[@tedoneilclark4710]

This looks absolutely beautiful wonderful so healthy and happy. What on earth have you Aussies done to the poor place?

[@TheTheTheTheTheThe]

What do you mean?

[@misssummersalt]

Capitalism. Obviously.

[@moakley]

no casinos no private roads no pokies just good old time with fresh air and asbestos

[@blackalien6873]

LMBAO!

[@Elitist20]

2:07 - 2:23 - Killara Station 11:23 - Who did their homework on Friday night? I always put it off till Sunday night!

[@steveone]

5:06 "Judy is working in one of the stores until she marries" .

[@wrabyapta]

Everyone was so fit

[@zaphoidbeeblebrox1809]

When I was a Kid, back in the 1960s, I used a wooden Ironing Board to Surf with. I forgot all about that until I saw this Clip. It was a Wipeout Man, Hanging 10 on an Ironing Board. lmao

[@YeahIDontKn0wEither]

"Saturday night, and Sydney offers the full entertainment of a capital city." 😔

[@LORDOFJOY1818]

The true Australian life

[@blohmymind]

Director, 'Make it sound like a bustling city scene with thousands of people in it.' Foley Artist, 'Sure thing.' Pulls out two coconut halves and revs up his Ford Prefect. 3:25

[@hughconboy7330]

As a millennial, can I ask, was life really that good back then? It seems to good to be true.

[@michaelbradley5603]

It really was as depicted for some

[@artemisxw8708]

For men yes, for girls and women no.

[@Tomsonico]

Beautiful Australia, beautiful Sydney

[@thux2828]

9:46 constructing high rise without a safety harness. But that hard hat should save them.

[@andreasneo9850]

not one botox filler insight what a time to be alive

[@richardsingh5827]

I was there in 2011, I hope to return for a visit

[@frankinbrida]

This was made 10 years before I moved from Adelaide to Sydney. We left in 1979 to return to Germany. My father worked for a German company and decided to return to Germany. I now live in France, am 63, and have never been back to Australia. One day.

[@myamdane6895]

18:47 Only a few hundred metres from the bridge in this shot is the house boat on which my grandfather and his brothers grew up in the 40s and 50s :)

[@pjaayzutube]

I really want to live in this Sydney🙂 Not the one in 2021🙈

[@peternagy-im4be]

We all do.

[@paulnguyen8910]

In the last 55 years, we've never seen anything disastrous like this. Panic buying at supermarkets, take-out only at restaurants, home-schooling for kids, etc.

[@shenanigans3710]

I wanna live in the 2021 Sydney but with the house prices of this Sydney