Public Enemies

From The Film Australia Collection. Made by the National Film Board 1948. Directed by Geoffrey Collings. This film treats the subject of vandalism. It is intended to show children that by wantonly damaging public property they cause mischief not only to themselves but to the community at large. The film shows that public utilities like the Post Office perform very important National tasks. Anything which prevents them from working efficiently can cause damage or even loss of life.

[@dangardave6442]

3:53 "There are all sorts of vandals and they're all stupid!". Love it.

[@paulmarynissen]

Love the work of the foley artists back then

[@patrick6350]

3:25 I guess no one had time for grief in 1948.

[@davechristian7543]

Mate that was propaganda if iv ever seem it PMSL my friend ..

[@davechristian7543]

9:01 They left how how the police would quite often give you a good hiding ...

[@MrCraigie65]

Lack of penicillin always gets the young ones.

[@yurilemming4130]

We used to call PMG fore runner to Telstra etc. Pigs Meat & Gravy or Pretty Melbourne Girls. Postal bag said tel aviv Palestine so Aust govt did not recognise the contrived new state in early 50s

[@mattl1962]

These days we call them scumbags. Scumbags have existed for millennia and will continue to exist, much to the chagrin of everyone else in society.

[@joyeechen287]

eshaaay laaaads

[@fredsalfa]

So mean.

[@michaelnathan4221]

The only difference between then & now is technology.

[@mornnb]

I think it's less common today.... People can vandalise in GTA V.

[@lukewilkinson3778]

Little bastards!

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

Doctor killed the kid to keep him quiet

[@mattl1962]

9:06 now, off to borstal!

[@davechristian7543]

where's that plz?

[@davechristian7543]

Oh Ok - googled it .. Borstal A Borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom, several member states of the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland. In India, such a detention centre is known as a Borstal school. Borstals were run by HM Prison Service and were intended to reform young offenders. Wikipedia ...........

[@markissboi3583]

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[@NotMe35971]

looks like Crocodile Dundee hated happy people.

[@johnhumphreys9774]

We dont get mail delievered twice a day these days.

[@mattl1962]

Most young people probably couldn't send a letter by post. It's unfortunately a diminishing form of communication of yesteryear.

[@mornnb]

We instead get phone notifications delivered twice a second.

[@GaryKrall-i1x]

Young Kevin Clark Brian Hernandez Cynthia

[@LilacDaisy2]

9:56 - dead boy blinks. What's going on here? But seriously, I was so invested in this old film. What a good job they did.

[@NFSAFilms]

That doctor should have really picked up on that. He could have been saved.

[@WesW3187]

‘Vandal’, an ugly word for an ugly person.

[@internezzo]

Australia used to have its own culture- but stupid vandals brought in a whole lot of foreign garbage and destroyed it.

[@steevo9656]

5:48 nice horsie bomb!

[@riverhuntingdon6659]

Goes on here in England too, yobs wrecking anything and everything. I was a motorman on the Southern Region of the railways here, the little bastards used to kick the sliding doors in the old side-corridor trains off their lower runners. That and smash the wall lights, mirrors, block the lavvies with cans or paper towels, when not smashing the pans or sinks, and let's not forget pulling blinds or curtains down. The replacing trains as a result were built VERY spartan. You can see why, but it didn't help the many honest passengers. Now everything lineside's covered in all this ghetto - trash graffiti scrawl. Glad I'm retired.

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

A slazinger with some long Zs keep the pmg jokers busy fixing insulators

[@Detroit8V92tta]

Cranky narrator.

[@davechristian7543]

most older Australian people were cranky back heir in this day n age i no that much '... kids came second not like in todays world were its all about the kids n the youth n no one gives a dam about the elderly sadly.

[@Homeo67]

I remember when seniors were called “supervisors” and now we’re the Unites States of Australia we call them “Team leaders” Ugh..

[@mattl1962]

Just last week New Zealand had WW1 crosses vandalised. Why do people do this?

[@ariesred777]

Today we can add intellectual property damage as an ever increasing occurrence

[@jasoncarpp7742]

Vandalism can be a worry in every country, Australia, the USA, the UK, Canada. Wherever there's children and even teenagers who cause property damage, vandalism.

[@NFSAFilms]

Yep. And if they are alive today these kids are probably ranting about the vandal kids of today.

[@jasoncarpp7742]

I wouldn't be surprised. Hopefully those in this video have learned their lesson and haven't done it again.

[@NFSAFilms]

Let's hope so. At 80+ years old!

[@jasoncarpp7742]

I would hope so.

[@steevo9656]

Cheap thrills, displaying discontent with their life/society, trying to look or the leader. People lacking excitement in their life so create some misguided drama.