Life In Australia: Melbourne

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Uploaded by on Jan 10, 2011

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.

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  • 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...

  • @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.

  • 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.

  • @paparia1969 Will do.

  • Although dated at 1966, the shots around 7:00 (in the Holden engine factory) would have been shot in 1965 (149 cubic inch engines are shown being built, the 1966 Holdens didn't have those). Around 13:15, all the finished Holdens in the yards are 1965 (HD) models - long gone by '66...

  • @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.

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  • @DonnnixD And thank goodness for that. Wonderful people that bring amazing culture and cuisine that I never had in the 60s.

  • @DonnnixD

    And you.

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  • A fascinating time capsule. I would have thought there would have been more men wearing hats.

  • Its still the same

  • 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 :-)

  • see how clean the place looked without asians and muslims, used to be a nice place

  • 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.

  • Golliwogg is considering visiting Melbourne on his World Tour, and is looking for new fans in the area.

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