The Water Dwellers

[@mrcaps1971]

Thank you for brightening up my day with yet another video of time gone by. A time where there was just enough technology to make life serene and comfortable. Unlike today where too much technology is disrupting our work life balance and invades our personal lives. Is it any wonder why everything looked so much better and everyone seemed so much happier then! So happy to watch this yet sad because life as it was will never be again! 😔

[@ktkt9982]

What a lovely flim. Beautiful photography. Another great historical resource. Thank you.

[@NFSAFilms]

Many thanks!

[@brutalbrital]

Takes me back to my childhood growing up on the river, I worked the slipways as a teenager and all this vision is just a memory for me great to see it again

[@tessaroo222]

Bliss… not a mobile phone or a face mask in sight !!! Thanks for another wonderful film NFSA.

[@NFSAFilms]

You're welcome

[@pherrishill2570]

What a pleasant time it must have been to be alive back then. It makes me both happy and sad watching this.

[@Scalihoo]

It was only 1967 , seems like yesterday

[@cristianhill7379]

Lovely film, thanks for making it available.

[@Aussietari]

God's♥️Country, Where I Grew Up here in the 1960's.😌

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

70's same. after 75 everything changed. to say it's not the same place hardly any more.

[@operationskypebbles8583]

My god somebody build me a time machine.

[@NFSAFilms]

We already did. Welcome aboard ;)

[@danrobinson572]

@@NFSAFilms awesome video makes me want to move there haha 😆

[@tomwhelan4561]

I'm with you!

[@kiwaussiegirl]

@@danrobinson572 I'm right behind you! 👍 😊 💯🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@nevnuance3480]

3:01 - I was trying to figure out the name of the railway station beginning with 'Men' and then I realised it was just a public toilet.

[@klyvemurray]

🤣🤣🤣

[@justsayin899]

Thankyou for preserving this footage of the true Australia.

[@richardjoy5060]

Thank you another great film and fantastic to see Pittwater 25 years ago.

[@NFSAFilms]

Our pleasure!

[@richardjoy5060]

I meant to say 55 years ago not 25!

[@nevnuance3480]

2:32 - environmentally friendly 'milk bottles' before the plastic monster took over.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

First! Thanks for another great film! This one is a real gem, from a time long past.

[@kayneF1251]

How strange wearing a suit in a dingy.

[@BrassLock]

Perfect living conditions for those choosing the commuter lifestyle, with good public transport and a relatively small population. Although living far away in West Australia at that time, we had similar riverside locations in Perth and Fremantle suburbs. At the time it all seemed perfectly normal and pleasant 😊. Now looking back at this film, it does seem like Paradise, but we didn't know it, although it was much appreciated by us Pommy Migrants who had arrived from war-torn conditions and rather grim climates.

[@klyvemurray]

G'day dav 👍

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

. have you seen the forgotten australians documentaries? about transportation of orphans from the u.k..

[@bellongia1]

Good old days

[@drunkdunc8738]

Lisa Simpsons best work on the saxophone 🤔

[@officialWWM]

😂😂

[@jamesgovett2501]

1967 but the bus at 3.07 is advertising Hemco seatbelts at 59 pounds & sixpence

[@johnd8892]

These government films were often filmed a few years before the final edited result was released and given a more modern date. Life in Melbourne from the NFSA is one I detailed issues like currency.

[@gikku3]

or 59/6? 59s & 6d ($82 today. £59 is $1650)

[@Elitist20]

It had probably been on the bus for some time.

[@klyvemurray]

I has this film dated at ~1964/5 given that the "newest" vehicle I spotted was an EJ or EH wagon?? Plus the ad on the bus having pre decimal pricing?

[@c-hryciuk]

Shame it's only 480p. Would love to see it at higher resolution.

[@NFSAFilms]

We are scanning as much as we can to higher quality formats but with a collection numbering in the millions (film, TV, Audio and ephemera) it's a big and pretty slow job. There is a playlist of some of our HD content uploaded here though: kzbin.info/aero/PLYjU0Xph-Gj7nutLAwy1S5wyzznq94pug. Brief as it is. Please keep watching.

[@upyours1256]

see how relaxed people were then ? they didnt have to keep looking over their shoulders for the thieving police , waiting to steal from them at gunpoint ! they knew they were doing no harm ,where as now you are always hoping you are not breaking acts and statutes !

[@danrobinson572]

Looks like a great place to live. I wonder if it changed a lot since than?

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

remarkably. has changed remarkably. you wouldn't hardly recognise it today.

[@bigears4426]

Probably only for the very rich now

[@smiddysmidton8313]

@High Beyond Exactly why Australia should have an inheritance or estate tax. Crazy that property is tax free during life and beyond into future creating generational divide for doing nothing . Why is fair that a person is severely advantaged or disadvantaged because of what their parents or grandparents did or did not do in the past ..?

[@Elitist20]

@High Beyond People back then worked hard, but they also had secure employment (not precarity or 'the gig economy') and housing that didn't double in cost in a decade - a couple of examples of good fortune that did indeed 'fall from the sky'. And even then, if you'd been living in somewhere like Mt Druitt, this lifestyle would have looked like another world.

[@Elitist20]

@High Beyond The vast majority of people actually do think about their children and grandchildren. But increasingly that isn't enough.

[@doitdan2354]

My pop build a house a empire bay.. which is right in this area. Wish he kept it.

[@TrudgeRC]

Summer Bay :-) We'll I'll be dipped.

[@officialWWM]

Who wears a suit in a boat? 😂😂 not a single fat person anywhere!

[@jennyanydots7582]

Exactly what we were thinking!

[@garyspeed8961]

A lot of the people were professionals who worked in the city but lived on the shoreline or scotland island with no road access

[@waynelloyd8959]

A real gem! not a piece of plastic “in site” as well.

[@AnkitJain-qd8it]

Good old days