here here, i came from England in 59 was 7 on the boat. what a great country it was back then.

really ? ! must be the good old days

That’s mad I’m 15 and live in Melbourne. We have a beach house in Barwon heads and visit there often. Almost every weekend in the summer

Privetazation free trade killed australia.dammmmm those internationalists dammmmm the positions who sold us out dammmm them and there family's too hellllll.may God send them too hell.its end days now thank god

Tina Mercuri I agree totally I'm 56 years and I look back What happened, people say that's progress BULLSHIT Australia was deliberately sold out to unscrupulous globalists Everything you buy these days is Shanghai Shit from the land of the yellow dog eating souless puppets. China ruined the world

Hello Sally - great that you saw you and your mum and dad. Do you still live in Geelong?

Unless you did lappies in McCann street, in the Oldsmobile, then it got a bit stressful...

@@88njtrigg88 both so right.

Just the grey hair mate :-)

That's great, thanks for letting us know.

I currently work in Geelong but live on the surf coast. I've always frequented the city and its surrounds. It's sad to see how its gotten worse as the years have gone by. Drugs, crime, lack of opportunity.

Stop complaining look at all the benefits of free trade like, crap a savage just took my big screen tv have to run, yes for my life he has a hatchet.

yes re-open the ford factory

agella72 agreed..it's always sad seeing the old vids of Australia sadly it's changed for the worse I wish we could go back in time 😟😟

its all america and chinas fault

My old Economics teacher said free trade would help us all. Maybe he met help us to an early grave. Three cheers for old Mister Cohen, I am pretty sure he is now in Tel Aviv sun baking on the beach.

Hi Mia, thank you for letting us know. We always like to hear from people connected with these old films. However it is very sad to hear of Greg's passing. Our condolences.

Mia Atkinson God bless his soul..

The classroom footage though was taken at the Bellaire School in Highton. It's printed on the girl's workbook as they pack up at the end of the day.

Tug Master 😂😂 sure is a funny sounding job description

@@NFSAFilms Sorry to hear of your loss

HI Alwyn Do you recognize anyone in the video?

It was actually both a sad and happy feeling to watch this video. When you could see everything we ever needed was right here.

@@weldmachine I think, in some ways, Australia sold itself out. People will always go for cheaper goods (looked what happened to India under British colonial rule, what a thorough catastrophe) and in the end ... how many Australian these days would like to work in factories doing repetitive jobs all day? Very few I think. But anyway, it is a thoroughly enjoyable video and I'll watch everything the NFSA puts up.

@@RohanGillett I think most Australians would rather have an opportunity to work at a factory than be on the dole mate

@@corrion1 I don't think they do. Even convenience stores employ mostly Asians and overseas students because the locals don't want to do that type of work anymore. There is a lot of work people won't do now. They'd rather sit on the dole than work at something seen as low paying and hard.

@@RohanGillett you could get a reasonable job as a factory if you were a young guy in you're 20s and still go places,ie raise a family, and move into better positions later on or change career. Woman work now so the family structure has changed and the work is more temporary and competitive, they won't look at a guy in his 20s who works in a factory or at IGA,picks fruit etc, especially when house prices are are half million ,so the job's seems more meaningless with less future and a sticky labour market and I would think more demotivating,migrants generally have family as incentive and work as a team to build a future, however you obviously will allways get people who are a little lazy

Too right digger !

Agree, it's creating a warped view of the real world (for those who stay in and watch tv)

You are absolutely right as this Campaign video for President Johnson proved in 1964 .. it only had child counting down the daisies while a countdown for a nuclear missle launch occurred in the background... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aMmnpKtzm7fJhas.html Sorry Sir... I am only taking the piss.. Of course by your statement the media was extremely negative about the Vietnam War... perhaps you were not there watching Walter Cronkite reporting that horrible war... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtunddmJvq2tgXU.html I am sorry sir, your premise [That "i am sure they had problems back then but their media was not built on bringing constant depression and fear as our media do these days ."]. is incorrect.. if anything the media was extremely trying and difficult... the Vietnam War at that time was an example... later from 1972 it was Watergate... And here is the reporting at the time of the protests against the Vietnam War... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/is6dY5Z6us-uZok.html Life 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago was not easier then as it is now, over time we subconsciously choose to forget the difficulties that were faced then as we do now.... "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"-"the more things change, the more they continue to be the same thing..

@Sam Peacock who you too

@@hypercomms2001some things were, job's for blue collar males in the 60s were easier you could just safely leave one for another with out much rigmarole, housing was cheaper you didn't need two incomes less competition and government gave you housing with special loans, generally less shitty food(chemical additives) and stress ,there wasn't the obesity rate or diabities or child cancer rates and probably slightly more community and slower pace of life

Great, thanks for the info Vertical.

Funny you mentioned the Drive In. Ballarat Road. Always good to watch Dusk to Dawn movies there on long weekends. ( if you could stay awake ?? most could not, LOL. ) Still LOVE the Drive In movies. A bit better now with FM radio sound. It was always funny watching the occasional person hanging themselves on the cable for the speakers in the window. I still remember ChocTop Ice Creams and children playing in there pajamas in the playground during the half time break.

and racism in their hearts, a political system that favoured them and allowed them to have hope as long as they were cisgender white and heterosexual, the good ol' days

Hope of a Geelong premiership that was decades away. My time is better.

@@newshound2521 what happened to your premiership last year buddy?

Born here to a couple years earlier. Still Love Geelong. Unfortunately moved away now. Maybe / hopefully i can come back when it,s my time, in ashes.

Tooooo funny 😂

Mum's basement

I don't think there were so many Realities back then.

or end up getting melanoma? :)

They would always decorate it well during Christmas.

@@weldmachine why tf did they take it away!!!!

@@cheekynandosss581 I guess like most things in life, change is always about progress. The park near that roundabout is still very Nice though. Never thought Geelong would ever get multilevel buildings. Now they are everywhere ?? More Progress.????

always wished i could have had a childhood like that, sucks that going out as kids isn't as safe as it used to be

@@quvictus9796 Don,t be to sad about. Life back then was innocent. Yes. But we were always told not to talk to strangers even back then.

This is the past mate

Best Beaches this end of Australia, Too.

Great, thanks for the local information, always appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the film.

Tien Wah Cafe. I am sure it,s the one in Malop Street ? If it is ? I remember all the expensive carved chest that lined the doorway as you walked in. They were stacked higher than me, lol.

I remember the 'Milk Program'. :) We were all basically human guinea pigs..... It was an SBS documentary. I think it was called 'Silent Storm'

I thought the milk program was a good idea. I realize it was essentially a way of subsidizing the dairy industry, but at least kids got to drink something healthy, instead of scoffing down coke and other sugary drinks. The milk program should never have been withdrawn

They are massive these days. A lot more of them too. New generation= new pine trees here!

Dont forget Pivot and grain corp.

fordlandau Don’t forget heaping helpings of cultural diversity

Phoebe JOHNSTON geez somebody doesn’t like people commenting..

At least Geelong has some of the best beaches still. It,s not all doom and gloom though ?? There are plenty of small businesses opening now. Which is better. It helps to spread the wealth.

sounds like a fucking blast

at least our drugs are of a high quality

Keating floated the dollar and deregulated the banks in the early 80s :-|

Indeed - and you can have it all for TEN POUNDS!!!

@@NFSAFilms Irresistible.

Yes Geelong is still a great place to live. That,s why so many want to live there.

sad isnt it

On the contrary, I was six in 1966, and I can remember LBJ arriving in Melbourne and the protester putting their bodies in front of his car; and the documentary on Four Corners about the rise of drug problems, and being scared witless about the nuclear bomb testing films so much so that I could not sleep at night. My father had just come back from Berlin and showed us his pictures of the Berlin Wall, and remember in 1968, the Soviets rolled into Checkoslovakia, and at that time our countrymen were being conscripted into the war in Vietnam... when this film was made, we had come close to Nuclear War with the Russian in Cuba...also for those who like to drink, pubs closed at 6:00pm; and there was no shopping on weekends... let us cut out "it was better back then" because it was not.. every time has it challenges, and no time was ever easier than the next... I am sure the generation growing up now, will be saying the same about this time now, but in 40 years from now...

Yes, if only we could go back to 1966 before there was all this OH&S and have 10,000 people a year be killed or seriously injured at work again just like those good old days. I blame the unions for dragging us into the 21st century. And yep I reckon you were right about there being no crime then too, if I remember rightly the police only started arresting people in 1974 and before that the Force was more like a gentleman's club and gaols were used to store all the rose coloured glasses that were later given out en masse to people like you for viewing of the past.

They were probably thinking "Crikey, isn't this White Australia Policy grouse".

@@KL2010 It is regrettable sir that one wishes to prove Godwin's Law... but the reality is otherwise, as the government in power at this time [1966] was Harold Holt's government that dismantled the White Australia Policy... "In 1966, the Holt Liberal Government effectively dismantled the White Australia policy and increased access to non-European migrants, including refugees fleeing the Vietnam War.[44] After a review of immigration policy in March 1966, Immigration Minister Hubert Opperman announced applications for migration would be accepted from well-qualified people "on the basis of their suitability as settlers, their ability to integrate readily and their possession of qualifications positively useful to Australia". At the same time, Harold Holt's government decided to allow foreign non-whites to become permanent residents and citizens after five years (the same as for Europeans), and also removed discriminatory provisions in family reunification policies..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy#End_of_the_White_Australia_policy Whilst I remember a great deal of dissent on the Vietnam War at the time, I do not remember much dissent on the ending of the White Australia Policy, except perhaps for Arthur Calwell, but six years later Gough Whitlam ended the regressive Labor Policy on that issue. Further in Referendum of 1967, the Australian people granted the Aboriginal people of our country the recognition that they always deserved, and granted them the right to vote and recognition under the Australian Constitution at that time. There is much to do on that but that was a start.

Thanks for the feedback. Glad you enjoyed our films. We have thousands more to come.

The Ford Factory is still sitting there. Empty now. Waiting to be developed like everything us we once loved.

Seen*

because they died

Yes!! This is so noticeable...people were so much more active both in work and leisure. A full bicycle rack at the school is evidence of this too...

3:20 check again boyo

@@soysaucesnag696 How dare you present evidence that contradicts my prejudice

Except there's no jobs !

More tidy Now. But much the same otherwise compared to this video.

@Ted, I was living in Melbourne on Geelong Road when I was young, then moved to Brissy. Cheers.

The main reason I chose to live in Geelong is the people. They always seem happy, even if the weather's shit house.

Best Beaches. This end of Australia.

Yes, they were heroic Cowboys then . . .

@SKIP AD I still do it.

My family live in Geelong West within sight of the Cement Works - or, as we called them The Cementies. They were dirty, noisy and damaging but they were also a fixed and solid point in the reality of our world. Two immediate neighbours spent their entire working lives there (and one was killed by the dust in his lungs). My Dad's veggie garden was constantly coated with a patina of gray dust and I have no doubt my ongoing respiratory problems as a kid were created or worsened by that dust. At night we could hear the whining noise from what my Dad described as "the Klinkers" revolving and in the day we could hear the wind howl through the stacks and silos. My folks played tennis at courts adjacent to there and I went to summer school art classes in the old orphanage next to the tennis courts. As a kid I would race down the street to see the last of the steam engines taking cement away to who knew where. The drivers would wave to us. I crossed that train line every day of my primary and secondary school life. I was texted by a friend who told me they'd torn down the old silos and I was really saddened. A certainty in the landscape had been erased in moments and, with it, another part of my childhood. Made me feel old all of a sudden. (edited for spelling)

yes silicosis.

Ballarat is still great. Although it’s obviously got busier. But still a top place.

I'm not sure sitting in front of a decrepit cement making machine , filling up cement bags all day, everyday was ever a "real" job!!

Agree, if we'd cut the apron strings to England we would be self sufficient to this day. Innocent times where hatred and self love wasn't top of the pops! People now just have no patience or concern toward others and drugs haven't helped at all.

remember going on those paddle boats with my older sisters around 1968

Where's the jobs now

@@JF-xm6tu Jobs Now ? Truck Driving. Construction of Warehouse. Fork lift Drivers. Packing all the cheap goodies away some where for us to buy. Without China. We would Not have Bunnings ??

@@JF-xm6tu China.

did you grow up in Geelong?

It was the same in England. School milk was left out on the school doorstep by the milkman from around 5am, meaning that in summer it had been sitting in the sun for three or four hours by the time we drank it. It was often on the turn and tasted rank, but if we refused to drink it the teachers guilt-tripped us by saying how our wonderful benevolent socialist government had provided it 'free' for us.

Try $23 or more now

Too funny!

Lived and worked here in the late 60's early70's married Gail here and still have many friends there. worked International Harvester , Gallagers auto wreckers Uniroyal, Dunlop and Goodyear tyre services. Used to hang out in McCann st [gone now ]go to the drags at Eastern beach and fish off Cunninham pier and bum around at PortArlington and Torqyay........ still one of my favourite places

GREAT FIND BOB I've watched quite a few of these....... I'm also an avid Utube watcher