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From the Film Australia Collection. Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1966. Directed by Douglas White. A picture of life in the Victorian capital of Melbourne in the mid 1960s. The Life In Australia series portrays Australian cities and rural centres as happy, lively places where good homes, abundant jobs, schools, hospitals and amenities provide the foundation for a relaxed lifestyle where sport, shopping, religion and even art combine to create a homogenous and prosperous society. Made for the Department of Immigration to encourage and inform prospective migrants to Australia. If you have any information about the people or places in this film we would love to hear your comments.
You can a production still from this film here: www.flickr.com/photos/nfsa/867...

[@paulwilliams7099]

Wow we used to make things in Australia!!!

[@Mikathedog100]

It was after the war. Munitions factories became car manufacturers.

[@Dangermouse2256]

Yes ! And we should have supported our local industries. I for one always bought Aussie made - including cars...

[@bradwilliams1691]

These days if I actually find anything that's stamped Made in Australia - I ask my wife, "how did that happen"?

[@alansmithee1723]

What a surreal, amazing experience seeing old Melbourne exactly as I remembered it! The absence of dialogue made it so much better than it would have been with a monotonous voiceover. Thanks a million, FILMAUSTRALIA.

[@originaluddite]

Something like this should be made every decade for every major city in the world.

[@jaydentownsend5402]

I came for these documentaries but I stayed for the comment section. The spice of life some may refer to it as.

[@RiffRaffMama.]

The comments section of any video is almost always more entertaining. Plus it has the benefit of showing you which bits to cut to to save you watching the whole video.

[@jaydentownsend5402]

@@RiffRaffMama. So true peace my dude.

[@Clarrisani]

Melbourne was a much prettier town then. Before the great demolition craze in the 60s where all the heritage buildings had a date with Whelan the Wrecker. Not to mention nearly all the jobs shown are now automated or gone.

[@fordlandau]

Clarrisani ‍ or jobs gone. No more Holden.

[@BrassLock]

I think Melbourne survived far better than Perth. There's still loads of heritage buildings and those from the Federation period standing in the city. I recognize several in the first few minutes.

[@johnsmith-cv1lp]

Whelan the Wrecker .OMG i havent heard that since i was ten i remember their ads everywhere as a child in Melbourne

[@OrnumCR]

Cannot remember the last time I saw two elegantly attired good looking gents riding horseback in tall boots and blazers in central Melbourne.....wait a minute...make that never.... The women all look elegant and the men are all well dressed by today’s standards. The city has changed markedly from 1966....many of the cars shown are Australian made or British or North American in origin and daily life looks a whole lot simpler. Actually this is the Australia I remember in the 1970’s as a kid. Very different experience today....

[@bobmarshall3700]

Poofters!

[@Mercmad]

Even the many VW's depicted were actually made in Australia,the engines etc were even made in Victoria .

[@mattl1962]

Those guys at the pub having a beer with lunch weren't dressed 'fancy' one even had a tattoo - that would have been sacrelige back then. Need a working class perspective.

[@thekienator]

I had just passed my driving license test in 1970 !

[@johnpro2847]

Yes, I was there ..born East Melbourne . Doncaster was mainly apple orchards back in the early days . Loved the old green tramway buses with the driver sitting out the front. I eventually left in 2003 and travelled north to warmer climes. Love these old nostalgic films .Thanks for posting.

[@NFSAFilms]

Great, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for commenting.

[@bigsiman]

The true Melbourne - the beautiful city of my childhood. Love those wide streets, W trams and the Foys Santa. And definitely the prettiest woman ever to walk out of a block of high-rise flats :-)

[@itakeyourphoto]

that was a nice look back in time. I still remember most of it

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

Bless you. I wish I was born in that era. Makes me mad that I wasn't. I get so angry about it!

[@itakeyourphoto]

+The Restoration of Dr Who Thanks to your reply I just watched it again! Some much that I remember so well. Dont be angry! Today in 40 years time will look just as amazing to you.

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

Haha I understand that, it's just that so many amazing things that I wanted to witness happened in those times. Girls were also much prettier XD I just really prefer those times as people got out a lot more and technology hadn't taken over.

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

And overall, everything just seemed more sophisticated and difficult. I prefer the challenge and hard work involved in most things.

[@meerkat1226]

+itakeyourphoto Such class in those days

[@glenmcmurtrie7359]

Wow! Melbourne last time the Saints won a premiership!

[@colinfield981]

Glen McMurtrie once too often and molly fainted and missed the last 5 minutes ha ha

[@bobmarshall3700]

Football.... Who cares?

[@bradwilliams1691]

I believe that the opening video was actually the 1958 grand final between Melbourne and Collingwood. Ahhhhhhhhhh - the sight & sound of Magpie tears watering the MCG turf...............again.

[@northseabrent]

I used to get the number tram to RMIT in 1973 when I studied engineering, Melbourne has changed so much in 44 years.

[@colinfield981]

North Sea Brent 64 for me

[@wingi7722]

Wow! Red Motors by the hundreds! The 186 was one of the best in line sixes ever produced. My Dad had the 1970 Holden Kingswood with a 186. Loved the rest of the video too. The fashions had true style back then and the cuts actually fitted.

[@thekienator]

In 1970, my father bought a FALCON FUTURA ; in 1974, a Holden wagon - no disc brakes in those days, but in 1970, an appallingly bad record number of deaths in car crashes - some aspects of life, such as motor vehicle & road safety, are considerably improved

[@bourbonslurpee]

i worked in the dandenong GM plant in the 80s and 90s the last car to come off the line was a red toyota corolla. lol ive still got the commemeorative drink coasters

[@user-ou4wx3ru6b]

I love Melbourne. And I wish I could date back to live in those days full of like the vintage style.

[@cx42control]

Now this was when Melbourne WAS the worlds most livable city. I was 19 years old. I know...

[@KL2010]

I was 12 in 1966 and never realised I was living in utopia. Moved to WA in 1974 and never been back.

[@Kwanglebeh]

The shops closed at 5pm weekdays, noon on Saturdays and the place was like a ghost town on Sundays.Used car lots selling pieces of junk repaired with fiberglass and greased over brown paper while more than 1000 people were killed in car crashes every year. Of course the inner city slums are whitewashed out this piece.

[@silvervalleystudios2486]

@@Kwanglebeh Yeah. I grew up in the 80s and I remember Collingwood, Richmond, Fitzroy and Clifton Hill being drug riddled shit holes.

[@mattl1962]

Just like Auckland, New Zealand except the only non english speaking migrants were only Polynesians and Asians. Except we got rid of trams in the 1970s for a crap underfunded, under-utilised, and porrly planned out public transport system and basically everyone uses their own car to drive in the city, causing massive delays everyday for short drives everywhere.

[@mattl1962]

The city was also full on ghettos until 1980s when they started demolishing them to rebuild fancy apartments and gentrification of the Polynesian homes came into full effect in the 1990s.

[@mr.magister5531]

Melbourne when it was safe to walk the streets, i know there is a naive innocence to it all, but in some respects our isolation from the rest of the world was to our benefit. I grew up as a kid at this time, went to high school in the 70's, went out and went wild in the 80's and i have watched Melbourne change dramatically in that time. I can't say in all honesty it's been for the best. Melbourne was a wonderful place, for the first time in my life i am not so sure these days..

[@KL2010]

I was 12 in 1966 and left Melbourne in 1974 to work in WA. My end-plan had always been to return to Melbourne after retiring where (dwindling) family all lived. But I retired almost 10 years ago now and have been subscribing to a Facebook Group called 'Protect Victoria'. What I have seen happening in Melbourne over the past 4-5 years via this group is very disturbing. And I hate to admit it, but the chances of my pulling up stakes now and moving back east are next to zero unless someone can convince me otherwise.

[@justcallingitasitis7274]

@Jo Lisa Dukarić Good, fuck off & don't even think of coming back

[@BradGrassforest]

I am a huge fan of Melbourne. My favorite city in the world. I used to live there 2009 for few months. Now I'm back in Estonia and I miss this city almost every day:(

[@scottmorrison466]

mukijatuki You are very lucky to live in a white country.

[@scottmorrison466]

trumbettier Why. 🤔 Because I don't agree with multiculturalism. 🐷

[@justcallingitasitis7274]

@@trumbettier9252 You're a fuckwit

[@jimmaxwell1094]

Make Australia great again

[@bradgotch]

So many split screen Kombis! Wish I could get one now for under 30 grand.

[@TerryJonesPrinterRepairs]

That grey kombi that repeatedly showed up at the end of several scenes kinda reminded me of that Stephen King horror movie

[@Redgumtv]

Doesn't matter where you live in Australia, it's a great place.And there is something magic about the middle of last century that will never be repeated. Thanks heaps for the memories.

[@ariesred777]

Thanks.Lovely to watch.The clothes were fairly sedate,soft pastel colours.Just at the turning point of Beatlemania and psychedelic revolution.Life was good back then.

[@phoneticau]

People back then had jobs happy attitudes and sense of optimism, unlike today

[@queenr6423]

Well ignorance is bliss they didn’t know not a damn thing. They didn’t probably even know how babies are made inside of the woman half of them. 😂🤯bunch of morons living in bliss

[@WiseGuy02]

And no African gangs. Oops forgot, there are no gangs in Melbourne.

[@JF-xm6tu]

@@WiseGuy02 shhh careful or the thought police will come after you

[@newellgirl]

love it..no leaf blowers..no GST..no mobile phones...proper solid cars (Holdens) cool neon signs..Conductors..no over-development..pure footy and only fan banners on the fence...Blue Harris trains..paper bags..smart clothes..where did it all go horribly wrong! this is the Melbourne i miss..please Apple invent the time machine i want Out!

[@KL2010]

Steve Jobs *DID* invent a time machine, it's why we don't see him any more.

[@reticulan5]

I really enjoyed this,how simple and happy life was.The fact that Film Australia went to the trouble to capture this and shoot it like a professional movie.The fact that it was shot in color was a bonus.My great uncle had a FB Holden like the young man who picked up his girlfriend with.I'd love a high res copy on blu-ray.

[@hannahkate7538]

No one in the comments seems to recognise the fact that the government was in control of these films meaning they are not reality even for the 1960’s because this is what they wanted people Melbourne was like.

[@NFSAFilms]

Yes Hannah, these are government propaganda films made for a specific purpose and portray an idealised view of Australia.

[@hannahkate7538]

NFSA Films Better said than I, thanks for replying!

[@NFSAFilms]

Thank you Hannah, for taking an interest in our film history.

[@margaretcumingdavies497]

@@NFSAFilms The girlfriend was an actress, so he was probably an actor. All very cosy and nice.

[@neriksen]

Hannah Kate Mills WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. ..... I am from this time and life was so much simpler with a job for everybody on every corner and no fucking Sunday trading. Both my wife and I loved this time. Police were respected. We were happy with all aspects of life. We had what we needed. Never ever heard of the word stress. We ate healthy, no plastic bags, we had time for our family and our friends. Oh, and the actress sitting next to the driver. We all did this. My wife had a HR Premier but I had a Ford with a bench seat. My family is of Scandinavian decent and my wife of European decent. Both families Catholic, both families respectful of those around us. We knew all our neighbours, in fact we all had gates in the backyards to each other’s property. We cared for our elderly. They lived at home with us . They had much to offer and we listened to them willingly and honestly. I’m glad, I’m proud to be of this time. I was proud to be an Australian.

[@spiralpython1989]

Holy guacamole: this was made in my birth city, in my birth year. It is simultaneously familiar and completely alien. Some familiar landmarks, along with seriously problematic view of the society of the time. I miss the Melbourne of my youth, especially when confronted with the excesses of contemporary Melbourne life.... but I am very glad it’s no longer like this. The homogeneity is scary- but it’s sweet to watch the city light up, to see empty city streets, that these days never stop...

[@retrothingz]

I remember it well. Melbourne was a beautiful, gracious city unlike today where it's become a chronically over crowded, dangerous mess.

[@frag8570]

@i i He was talking about Melbourne you dumb fuck

[@Harry_G89]

Far too overcrowded and the traffic is unbelievable!!

[@kerrymattrobertsharris6707]

Beautiful Melbourne town 1960s...this is a fabulous short film.

[@NoosaHeads]

Was a really beautiful place. Doesn't look like that anymore. Very sad.

[@leongt1954]

Yes it was really like that I remember my brother taking me to the movies in the 60's but now it turned to shit and not safe to walk the streets after dark by yourself

[@qqq2211]

Amazing footage just seeing what life was like in Melbourne in the 60's and the quality of the film fantastic

[@NFSAFilms]

The grey car the young man is driving is an EK Holden. Made in Australia from 1961 - 1962.

[@lulurules]

This is so cool.. I'm only 17 and I've lived in Melbourne my whole life. It's cool to see how all these places I know so well used to be.

[@buzzyb12000]

did anybody relise who the girl was in this snippet, it was Meg Ryan fron the 1980's series Prisoner, and I really enjoyed this snippet of Life in Melbourne in the 60's when everbody was happy and friendly to one another and Henry Bolte was the States Premier.

[@tefllife2024]

Meg Morris not Ryan.

[@Kwanglebeh]

I noticed she was a TV actor.

[@DEATHSTARER]

Shane Pacholli A very young Elspeth Ballantyne.

[@francisp8633]

There were no plastic bags back then. People had their own reusable bags, the shop gave paper bags, or they just carried their stuff with no packaging... and people are complaining about Coles, Woolies and IGA banning plastic bags. People need to get over it.

[@paulohara8967]

The wheel has turned a full circle.

[@bobmarshall3700]

Sorry Francis but you need to learn the truth! The the Government/governments got paid off by the bin liner industry to denounce plastic bags as an "environmental initiative". The whole thing has always been about making people pay for plastic bags to put their garbage in instead of getting them for free from supermarkets! The only difference is that there are no fewer bags in landfill or the ocean, it's just that now the 'sucked in' public is paying for them and thinking they have done a wonderful job!

[@Mercmad]

I worked in a supermarket after school around then. We used to pack the customers goods in paper bags and wrap all frozen stuff in news paper. You soon got pretty good at it because the check out lady would growl you ... ha ha .

[@m3ekag]

3.30 FB Holden, had one of those, also Beetle bug too, Melbourne was my city, 6pm closing and the city just died as everyone left for the suburbs.

[@Homeo67]

Yes it is and she was in an ABCTV show called "Bellbird" in about 1967. Good pick up.

[@adrianjackson2696]

The dance a "Go Go" was quaint at the end and probably finishing very late at 11 pm before that last train at midnight departed for the suburbs. Note they were drinking coffee not booze too. Full of cleanness and niceness as Dame Edna Everage would say

[@DiHandley]

Sadly “progress” does not make things better, only more complicated. I really do think that we are all heading in the wrong direction.

[@Youcanonacanon]

Life in 1966 was wonderful. I wish we could all go to church every Sunday, and sit at home on Saturdays because all the stores are closed.

[@BrassLock]

But . . . We went to the footy Sat arvo . . . (or in my case walked to the movies at the local picture theatre, after having walked to the Bank during the morning to withdraw pocket money from my Commonwealth Bank children's passbook savings account). But that was in Perth, and I guess Melbourne was the same.

[@kingabz108]

what an amazing times.. it truly was the most beautiful city in the world.. its history gets so interesting the further back i look and im talking all the way back to the late 1800s and it just makes me realize why i chose to make it my birth city..

[@jasoncarpp7742]

Excellent video! Thanks for posting. I intend to visit Australia one of these days.

[@paparia1969]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Film OZ. please keep this up. And hassle the C'wth for more funding to make these films available.

[@TheAxelay]

When I watch this in 2018, I get a range of emotions from being glad and happy to see this kind of utopia to anger in knowing that my Generation and future ones after it will never ever know this type of life/security to overall sadness in the end and some emptiness in how melbourne is now?! Imagine that, going to a factory to work?! Horse back riding?! Of course this is an ad though and I make it an addiction of mine to learn on how life was back in those times only to criticise the pitfalls from now into the future and you know it won't get any better but worse sadly..It's a bad addiction watching these clips but a thankful one

[@NFSAFilms]

Glad to be of service - does that make us your pusher?

[@mimipavlovsky]

It's one of those things too, were it has it's pros and CONS. I personally would honestly give my collections of Archie Comics (of course the really old ones) to spend a day or a week, just to take in the openess,the beautiful old buildings,unfortunately long gone as concrete blocks were being put up, it actually sadly had started by then. It was a slower paced life for most. Not all food was bad, just cooked not great by most, but it was fresh!!! But unfortunately it was a very White Australia although my parents had been living here for a couple of years by then from Hungary, We fortunately didn't get too much racial crap, probably as we lived in St. Kilda. But even here you see a lot of the European Immigrants working Markets and Factories. It was a tad different for Asians, and Indians. Also Women still struggled that didn't want to go down the Traditional and expected Path. Homosexuality was still illegal and A lot of Animal issues were fobbed off. And it just was a Patriarchal society... But still there is something that makes me want to be there. I was lucky and was a child of the 70's and that I'm so grateful for. But still a day, even just a day... 😍

[@gordoncowan50]

I was showed this film before I migrated. The reality was better than the movie.

[@NFSAFilms]

Wow, an actual intended audience member.

[@altcoincollege2222]

What a difference 5 decades can make, I wonder how far into the future someone could look back on today and feel like I did watching this.

[@lufemed]

Pretty nice to have this documented. Greetings from Guadalajara, México.

[@waynehauser3611]

Great film love Melbourne back then. Now it's very sad !

[@crocodile2006]

What was the stabbing rate in Melbourne before "multiculturalism"

[@adrianjackson2696]

I was 14 living in Melbourne when this was made ; vivid memories as it was. Nice clean streets with no graffitti. Cars, trams and people moving freely in the wide streets before the bike lanes, Bourke St Malls, closed Swanston St (now a Walk) and trip hazzard tram stops (depressed and elevated ones) buggered things up.

[@scotv1537]

Awesome work posting these. Haven't gone through them all as yet but it seems as if only the Sydney film gets the VO. Interesting...

[@pervertt]

Before any of you get too misty eyed, just remember you also had these things back in the 60s: boring food, bad coffee, asbestos houses, the 6 o'clock swill, dead shopping centres during weekends, no fancy cars or air travel unless you were a squillionaire, no mobile phones, no internet and definitely no KZbin.

[@cotters1126]

I love these videos of times gone by.....seeing everyday lives of the 50s and 60s.....and that chick serving the roast chooks sure does look like a young Meg Morris of WDC....

[@NFSAFilms]

Yep that's Meg.

[@JaseTheHACK]

Wow. I would love to remake this film shot for shot in 21st century Melbourne.

[@adrianjackson2696]

The Europeans stopped coming much less in the 1970's. Figures in the media in 2019 say that across Australia the British are still the largest immigrant group however in Melbourne its the Indians, Sydney the Chinese and Brisbane New Zealanders who top the most numerous groups.

[@NumberNeverLie]

wow, drivers were a lot less aggressive back then!

[@Traumm9]

Fantastic, many thanks for the upload

[@NFSAFilms]

Thanks Scott, it looks like you didn't see the link to the new 4K version kzbin.info/www/bejne/inSadWiKlNKSY80

[@charlesdimech4876]

Ow wow swinging 60s Happy times in australia love it

[@JonathonWoodgate]

Life was so much simpler back then

[@pattomuso]

Swingin' Melbourne! I could have been one of the school kids crossing the road ;)

[@NFSAFilms]

Hi tri400. Widescreen as it is usually referred to today is what is known as 16:9 aspect ratio. This film which was shot on 35mm film is in an aspect ratio of 4:3. There were many ways of using 35mm film to obtain various aspect ratios but this was pretty much the standard. Widescreen 16:9 really is more relevant when you are talking about modern video and digital formats. Thanks for watching.

[@lukegreenwood3750]

2:25 my god never seen the city so empty

[@soniasm81]

The time when there was no Sunday trading..

[@girvanpaterson1098]

Give me 1966 any day! I know, I was there!

[@pantera6343]

I try watch this once a month , relaxation therapy

[@orbitalsatellite]

Mrs M! Wow, this was the city my parents would immigrate to two years later, from Greece. That Greek dessert shop looks familiar. I think it was in Thornbury. And what's that curved building? Gee, not even Nauru House was built yet. I remember coming down the hill towards Westgarth and the skyline had Nauru House, the State or Commonwealth Bank building and then Rialto. That was it. You'd go to Hoyts or Village cinemas and try to catch the last train or tram home. I miss those days. Now, since moving to the country, I don't recognise the place. May as well be another Hong Kong.

[@roberttudor455]

Melbourne 1966. I want to eat the food .. it looks real !!! And that helipad, never new its been there that long. We wish we were, but the video makes things look nice. Hindsight is very deceptive !!!!

[@Piratebreadstick]

I miss "Curly", the North Fitzroy Milk man, who used to visit every Monday night - we'd chat lots. I think that went on till about 1980, then he died and that was that. I must say milk never tasted as good since.

[@agochoa]

Seems like paradise compared to what it is now.

[@johnsmith-cv1lp]

Fantastic footage

[@snugglypie1]

Ava Gardener said (from memory,) that Melbourne was the perfect city to make a film about the end of the world. She was always right I know because I was in love with her at that time

[@paulcooper3463]

Can i crawl through the screen and go back it was much better then.

[@viviekazanili1077]

Lol

[@bboucharde]

Paul, Get in line, mate!

[@MedusasSnakePit]

Wish you would go back

[@NFSAFilms]

@scotv Thanks. Some others have voice overs too but not all of that series does - not sure why. Couple more to post in that series as well.

[@fordlandau]

He’s working at Holden Fisherman’s Bend factory assembling the new red motor. He drives an older model Holden, the EJ.

[@davehall44]

EK I think, had one myself.

[@tiger832]

Some politician looked at this paradise and thought we need more gangs.

[@tiger832]

I wouldn't even know where to start with the Lebanese, what an absolute disaster that decision is.

[@akpstar6331]

@Lats Niebling Your problems are a few arabs and blavks ? Dude australia is full of chinese indians fuckin up your country you stupid fat pig

[@OutbackAl]

The Golden era when Melbourne was full of.....well.....OZZIES!

[@frag8570]

@Jo Lisa Dukarić bitch would you fuck off. Commenting all over the place. Go live in Serbia then if you don't like it here.

[@NFSAFilms]

Yes Perth and Adelaide to come but also check out Postcard From Perth which is already up.

[@sooka1959]

The young woman who is planning her wedding in this video is the actress Elspeth Ballantyne who amongst other things starred in the 1970s series 'Prisoner'.

[@NFSAFilms]

Correct(ions Officer Meg Jackson).

[@tefllife2024]

Yes.

[@VIV292]

Good o'le days grew up in Flemington opposite the cattle yards and abbattoirs!!! Good old tram 59 Essendon aerodrome back before it was Airport west!!! also love seeing how the heli pad is still there opposite Batman park . I live out in Doncaster these days but will always remember growing up back in the North west side of Melbourne!!!! I was about 12 when this was made

[@silvervalleystudios2486]

You can tell the difference between a place like Keilor or Sunshine and a place like Doncaster or Blackburn. Westies these days are very rude and obnoxious. I find that eastern suburbs people are a lot nicer. It might have something to do with that old money mentality as opposed to people thinking that their better than others because their suburb boomed during the property rally. When I grew up the west was a drug riddled slum. Good choice moving to Doncaster. Your family will have a brighter future for it.

[@VIV292]

Thanks . Yes my folks eventually moved to Airport West in 1975 probably as west I’ve every been lol but I did travel to Footscray to do trade school of Gordon street Munitions factory late 70s . Agreed about Doncaster the wife and I bought out here in 84 lovely place especially for families. However we bought out near Park Orchards back in 03 ( still kept house in Doncaster) When I get the opportunity I love to drive through Airport West just reminisce and out near Broady my older sister lives in Westmeadows But yes living in iso can’t do that anymore!!!! Yes big differences in attitudes between suburbs back then and probably still today Cheers

[@exploreaustralia6577]

Very good record

[@Ballarateast]

Ice skating at St Moritz in St Kilda , the singing conductor on the number 6 tram to Glen Iris , Cole's emporium , red rattler trains , corner milk bars etc etc ho hum

[@ROYALWAND]

the old 149 Holden ``red motor `` ...they were good :)

[@scroatworx2339]

John McBride 149 was a grey motor....

[@grahamnewton3727]

Melbourne has lost its magic! Now look at it today. ugly high rise apartments everywhere, congestion, nutcases everywhere and so expensive.

[@jackcambrian]

I'll bet people said the exact same thing in 1966.

[@indeed7289]

you know Melbourne is regarded as one of the most Modern and Futuristic looking cities in the world right?

[@madamedellaporte4214]

+R L they didn't actually

[@williamwallace3780]

Modern architecture = let's make a cheap box and put a bunch of ugly crap all over it.

[@nicolettafourikis927]

Yes now all modern cities look the same! I hate the new architecture of today! They knocked back period homes & heritage buildings to build crappy glass buildings! Globalization = loosing our identity! Every city looks the same except for some famous land marks!

[@Aspekitteh]

@00:47 makes me thinks of parts of London today, brilliant video, thanks!

[@reginaldcrapo132]

Just doing my bit ----> @00:47

[@gyobfan22]

Haha nice to see Meg Jackson/Morris having fun before she got the prison officer job at Wentworth.

[@daijones101]

We were in a very affluent period with full employment and low inflation but the makers of this film only show what they want you to see which is predictable but misses so much. By 1966 there were sharpies in Melbourne and they've shown nothing of the youth culture.

[@daijones101]

Promotional film not showing anything nasty and devoid of real life. Pop music in 1966 was incredible. No reference to that . Good little worker ants performing as they should.

[@danrotman555]

Dai Jones It seems like you didn't make it to the end. Nice little sequence in 'nightclub' with reel to reel player.

[@petermcmaster6476]

Lovely to see Meg had a nice regular job selling roast chickens before becoming a prison officer at the Wentworth Detention Centre. I'm presuming she worked at Coles?

[@bowhunterxxx]

No that was Myers ground floor Lonsdale st building.

[@petermcmaster6476]

Oh.....I'm too young to remember Myer selling hot roast chickens! I vaguely remember Coles in Bourke Street with the cafeteria. My Nanna used to take us there when we came to visit her from the country!

[@NFSAFilms]

Essential training for a screw.

[@mervinjohnorozco9864]

Nostalgia is the thief of joy, a wise man once said.

[@erroneouscode]

Name him?

[@wuxaful]

Respond to this video... Awesome Melbourne!!!

[@Dangermouse2256]

To all Australians, always please choose Australian made products over imported products .By so doing you are supporting all and our children’s future. Economic prosperity has always been governed by industrial output. No economy will survive based on “service” and Covid has made us acutely aware of this fact. The only country that survived the EU economic meltdown = Germany. Why ? Manufacturing!

[@NFSAFilms]

Yes you're right, that's Meg. Who would have thought she would end up a screw?

[@perihelion7445]

That's riiiiight... I knew I'd seen her face before when watching this.. 😃😃😃

[@mickcarson8504]

Who is Meg?

[@trk1973]

@@mickcarson8504 Elspeth Ballantyne who played Meg Morris/Jackson on Prisoner

[@Kajifox]

What, like all the immigrants working on the docks, or at the markets, or in the Holden plant in this film? Australia's always been a migrant country.

[@NFSAFilms]

@Conniptions886 Yes well spotted. The production dates were usually given at the completion of the production which in this case was '66 even though production may have started much earlier. It's also possible that some material was used from other productions. CFU / Film Australia were great cannibals of their own material. Thanks for the detail.

[@tripsadelica]

This was the Melbourne I knew as a child. Such a beautiful place it was back then. Less crowded and less manic than today. Back then people dressed nicely, manners were something people used and there was an air of steady optimism. Migrants from Europe, like my parents, brought new styles of food and the coffee culture we so adore these days. These were the days when jobs were plentiful. That sign (written in many languages) in the film which said "Those seeking work wait here" was a common sight. There were factories galore and we made literally everything, from the laces in your shoes, the shoes, your clothes, your car and the tv sets we so eagerly watched back then. Then the multinationals, ever seeking more profit invented "off shoring", reassuring us we would convert to a "service economy" and globalisation hit us. Factories closed or went off shore. The mighty Holden factory (seen in this film) became a massive warehouse...the great presses and production lines stripped out and sold for scrap. The huge "Electronics Australia" factory in Clayton (makers of ASTOR tvs, whitegoods and radios) was gutted and is now a low rent housing estate. Gone...all of it gone in less than a generation! We went from living off the sheep's back and what we could dig out of the ground in the early fifties to an industrial powerhouse in the 60s back to living off the sheep's back and what we can dig out of the ground. It sickens me...it makes tears well up in my eyes! Australia is a land of potential but now it is overpopulated (we are living beyond our nation's water storage and energy production ability) with so many diverse peoples who have not been encouraged to integrate, as my parents were but to form religious ghettos...form youth gangs...in short all of the problems of large US cities. So this film is one of the last remnants of "my" Australia which I cherish. A fair land...a wonderful and free country. Pity our politicians sell us down the river to the big corporates at the drop of a hat!

[@harryb3456]

Ok boomer

[@joehiggs100]

The whole series is wonderful. It looks just like communist stuff from the same time - or Mr Hulot..no-one speaks on the soundtrack, jazz-a-tronic music. Everywhere a paradise of serious workers with modern architecture.

[@neriksen]

Bob Jones ah but the difference is that we were happy to work and not stress over what someone else thought of us. Look at the damage social media has done. We had lives, not reality rubbish. The Reds were an enemy 15000 kms away.

[@reginaldcrapo132]

You say "communist stuff from the same time" but I am guessing you do not have a link.

[@Mercmad]

@@neriksen Or in Victorias case, the Painters and Dockers and Bob Hawke.

[@mattl1962]

@@Mercmad they were good

[@countrymember9466]

Love Melbourne- great city

[@jacksmith-tv3op]

How nice was this

[@johnpro2847]

@ 2:10 Melbourne was famous for its extremely empty centre on Sunday mornings .Those days are forever gone.

[@sabah4123]

People went to Church then family day at home or picnic. 👍

[@johnpro2847]

@ 8 :16 I actually went in this helicopter to Tulla or Essendon ..can't recall now. I was the only passenger but a real buzz . Now no longer available.

[@juliekemp419]

Lovely to see albeit scope not wide enough (too industrial) and often photography too long on very mundane activity and the couple's 'story'. I had just started training as a nurse at Prince Henry's Hospital and didn't see even a sky shot of that long-gone establishment on the once gracious St Kilda Road. So recall getting on a tram! Luvved dem trams!

[@killmrdarcy4367]

VERY disappointed to not see Mrs Edna Everidge (as she was then) turn up in this 1960's Melbourne flick!

[@timpriddy73]

A man, woman and his holden..........

[@stuartfarrow2338]

Holden is as Australian as Coca Cola

[@dsriggs]

GREAT stuff here. Any episodes on Perth or Adelaide?