Almost in tears they had it so good back then. Dad went to work, mum ran the house and they had everything they needed, were happy and spent lots of bonding family time together. Heaps of work for everyone to live a nice basic happy life.

"Gill earns the money, his wife looks after the housekeeping" Now people don't know even know which freaken bathroom to use :(

Back then people prayed before meal. What a wonderful memory !

Wow. Really amazing sitting hear on a Sunday morning and discovering my dad Rick Farbach playing with his band at cloud land. Almost had an 'out-of-body experience. Typically, we found this on an iPad.

I can remember back then! Dad worked so hard to make sure we had food on the table. Mum & Dad went to play tennis for a break, bringing up us 3 kids. Oriel my older sister had the hairdryer? It looked so funny on her head & she used those silly big rollers in her hair. George,Anne, and Roma Street I knew so well. Dad would take us shopping in there every Saturday morning, to give Mum a break! The trams I disliked ever since I saw Lady & her daughter get hit by a tram. If brings back memories of when times were good for me. Mum & Dad worked so hard! I love them both & miss them so much!

Absolutely amazing, such memories of my Brissy that I grew up in. One quick flash of the YMCA sign reminded me how every Saturday morning I would hop on the bus at Indooroopilly all by myself at the age of 7 and 8 and travel to the City Hall and then walk the couple of blocks to the YMCA in Edward Street for Sat morning YMCA for boys, exercises, fellowship, etc...we even had a sex education presentation there on Saturday when I was about 9! If a parent let their child travel like that these days they would be reported to CPS I am sure. There was an indoor gym, indoor running track around the top of the gym, indoor pool and a really strange locker room smell. You could stay there in accommodation as well.

In 1964, I was 14yrs old and I remember all in the film quite well, particularly towards the end of the film there is a lady who was an actress and media personality Barbette Stevens. It seemed she was directing a play rehearsal. I enjoyed the 15 minute film very much.

Pineapples were obviously a very big part of life in Brisbane! Seriously though, our family arrived in Brisbane in 1963 and this is how I remember the old place, wonderful. Thanks for putting it up!

I would love to turn back the clock !!!

remember when we turned our back on our river, didn't it look industrial and run down. Lifestyle was more innocent and much less stressful, but the city looks better now.

I love these films! Have been looking at them state by state. A great trip down memory lane from my childhood.

Interesting to see the Johnstone gallery featured towards the end of the film. Brian and Marjorie Johnstone’s Bowen Hills gallery was one of the largest commercial galleries in Australia at the time. The Johnstones made a point of featuring the works of established and emerging Australian artists such as Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd, Margaret Olley, Ray Crooke, and Sidney Nolan amongst others. The gallery ran from 1952 until 1972, first in the basement of Brisbane Arcade, then under the Johnstone’s Cintra Road house. Sadly, both the house and former gallery have been demolished. Marjorie Johnstone, an actor of some note, also helped found the Twelth Night Theatre on the corner of Cintra Road and Montpelier Street, which was built on the site of her former family home, “Wyandra”.

Thanks alot for letting me see this city. So much from then is still here every day and will be forever but alot isn't either. It makes me sad and happy.

A great trip down memory lane

Lived in Brisbane as a boy in the late 40's, early 50's, then we moved to Melbourne, how I wish I'd stayed in Brisbane, weather wise you can't beat it, and if only life were still as simple and happy as it was back then. So much for 'progress'!

Thank you for this classic upload

At 16m41s into the film is a street scene of Logan Road, Mt Gravatt Central and I can see the BCC supermarket where my Mum bought the groceries in big brown paper bags. This same area is where I caught numerous buses to primary and high school, and where the tramline had its last stop. My Dad worked driving the trams and later as a bus driver for the Brisbane City Council which stored their buses at the Light Street Depot in the Fortitude Valley. The original basement Milano restaurant in Queen Street had the best baked New York cheesecake in town, and Cloudland at Bowen Hills had midnight to dawn dances where you caught the 7am bus back home! Memories!!!

We lived in Brisbane in 2002-2004 at Indooroopilly area. Loved the cool and sunny winter, and the blossoming Jacarandas in spring..though the summer temps can sometimes be almost unbearable (for us), although we come from region of tropical climate.

Hi Holdenboy1960. Yes you have to remember that these films were made as Government propaganda so you are only getting the story and images they wanted to portray about Australia. Later on in the 1970s when the Film Unit started to have more control over what they produced, and and with changing governments, there are broader social issues and aspects of society shown. We will be posting these so please keep watching. Thanks again for the comments.

Ah. ! TC's Sound Lounge in Elizabeth Street was where I 'grew up'. hahahaha Loved the open air trams that ran all the way to Enoggera. My dad was in the army there and we lived in housing commission after waiting out at Holland Park to get a house. I am 73 now and loved watching all those scenes I remember so fondly. (y)

A specially built newspaper hurler's car door at 19:10 ... it was a "calling" back in them days!

it's wss so much nice bsck then miss old days.life was easy and safety.

1964, 20 years after the 2nd. World War. The growth after this time was awesome. I'm glad I grew up there

Great look into our past. Thanks for putting it up on You Tube guys. Lived in Brisbane as a kid during this time so I remember lots of this stuff as it was.

OMg... I weas there as a teenager in 1964... recognised and remembered everything... even think I saw an old friend in the footage....

Holy shit it is 23 Tenby Street Mt Gravatt! If you look at Google street view it hasn't changed much. Even the brick work on the left and right of the driveway is the same, as well as the pattern of the house numbers.

Great thanks for letting us know. Glad you enjoyed it.

Glad you enjoyed it. Must have been a big surprise. Thanks for letting us know.

1:20 Brisbane's internet still runs like that.

would liked to have seen the view from the mountain (Coot-tha) and the summit kiosk, plus QU, Sth Bris, even Nudgee beach, as well as the barge to Straddy etc, from back in the day. The aerial shot of the Goldie was a knock out. Looked pristine .. no high rise. Wonder what Mooloolaba looked like back then? Otherwise I well recognise the river environs from 10 years later, when I first came to live in Bris. Back then I couldn't understand apparent lack of interest in the river as the city's key lifestyle feature! How attitudes have changed.

Love this video clip - an everyday suburban home in Brisbane, 1964. Some bright spark (and I mean that seriously) on KZfaq has already tracked the house address to 23 Tenby St, Mt Gravatt - just down the road from where I once lived, albeit 38 years later.

Very interesting. I recognised a lot of the big buildings and the bridge, but the city streets have changed so much. I was born in 1964 but I recall the trams. They were scary, especially the way they would stop and let you off right in the middle of a busy intersection.

First thing that strikes me is how laid back and tranquil life was back then, now its a rat race.

looks like that church at 15.27 and the classroom shown earlier is preserved at the museum at beenleigh

Love Austrália form brazil

Hi Steve this series, and a lot of the Film Australia Collection, was produced for migration purposes. These films would have been shown at embassies and migration centres, mainly in England, to give prospective migrants an idea of life in Australia. Albeit a rose tinted view for sure.

There seemed to be large attendances at events such as the races, dances, etc. I guess we now have so many forms of entertainment that some of those older ones are not so crowded.

The Golden Circle Cannery was a HUGE employer. Most people I knew growing up worked there at one time or another. Even just part time for good wages when they had big orders.

They really were the good old days for those old enough to remember. My 3rd child was born in 1964.If I really had to choose an era though,it would be the 40/50's when I grew up. Best time of my life. Only about 1 murder a year,not one a day like now.

This 'Life in Australia' film seems more experimental than the others, especially in its choice of musical score (5:23)!

I didn't know Brisbane was so bustling, cultured and sophisticated, in 1964.

i love australia! i wanna go there someday!

love it - the boy eating an iced vovo and dawdling in the fridge

For anybody who maybe curious...... the housewife was played by Gloria Birdwood - Smith who was a renowned actress most particularly on stage.......

A population of 600,000 then now it has 2,275,000.

NFSA, If you rescan this film it would look fantastic with a full color restoration in 4K.

Que hermosos tiempos los de australia.

Nostalgia!

Brisbane still had trams early 1960s & I also owned a Holden EK in 1964, automatic too, preferred kombis though, had a couple of split windscreen ones, also had a Herald Triumph, took the hardtop off for convertible.

It was a rather artistic video for its time, the use of the abstract phone calls at the start, the quirky music, the lack of narration throughout. I would have liked some interviews however.

Looks like a fallout 4 cutscene

Oh, where are the days when you could actually talk to a human? Wow, love this film. Not an Aussie, but going to travel there next year!

I had a port like that too. They were compressed cardboard with rounded plastic corners. The school desks looked familiar too. I wonder what school that was? We were migrants from Britain, although I was born here, so we were a lot poorer than these guys. Concrete house, second hand car, no uni or trips to the beach. But a great bloody country to grow up in. Still the best in the world!

Brisbane's 1964 population was 600,000; equivalent to the population of the Gold Coast today. Fast forward 50 years later and Brisbane's population is almost @ 2.5 million only to find how sustainable public transport was back then compared to now.

It's the Queen's English if I'm not mistaken. I think most media was presented with a British accent until maybe just a couple decades ago. I could be wrong, but I think I remember hearing that from somewhere.

Oh god. Those cardboard backpacks. 6:49 This great video is full of awful memories...

Nine News is trying to flog this a an exclusive not before seen event yet it’s been available on here for years.

Church on Sunday. Not 5 times a day every day whilst getting centrelink!

Does anyone know which residential street was used for the hero family of this clip?

It was sold in 2011 and appeared to still be owned by this family!

Ah, they were the days, peaceful , relaxed and a red hot root on every corner.

This has to be the strangest music I’ve ever heard

What make is the car at 20.06 ?

ANZAC square looks exactly the same. Not one bit different.

@MrDenyWeny Awesome bit of detective work. Thanks for the info.

If only we could return to a much nicer era... Where there was a family life and where people went to Church on Sundays.

Was that some open outcry at 1:28? was there an exchange in Brisbane?

The video seems a pretty accurate portrayal to me according to my memories. But why on earth that particular music sound track?!

The school is Wilston State School !

ty FILMAUSTRALIA i understand that , that's why i didn't want to be political about it just an open view of the vid in general . you posted a couple vid's of Newcastle witch showed more to the true living & works of the town & lifestyle back then , just got to read between the lines some time's is all . but on that note, Very good vid's & ty for posting them Cheers Shane .

According to the date on this video this was filmed in 2011...not surprised.

I didn't know many churchies here in Brissy growing up. What a waste of a Sunday morning!

Wonder if they've fixed that clock in King George Square ? yet?

Does anyone know what TC's Sound Lounge was? 13:45 in.

Where are all the Aboriginal people? The truth is if Aboriginal people dared step foot in Brisbane city in those days they were immediately arrested by the police and driven out of the city.. they had a boundary area around the city and blacks where told to keep out.. Most of the people who lived in Brisbane in those days were extremely racist.. I know this because my grandfather was an Aboriginal man who lived his whole life in Queensland and his stories of his experiences growing up as third class citizen in his own home land would make your blood boil..

I bet that giant golden toadfish caught at 12:00 was delicious. At least some things haven't changed!

I remember Cloudland before the bulldozers got to it

All the talk here about how aboriginals weren't allowed in Brisbane back then are absolute rubbish. I worked for a multi-national company at the time this film was made, called FRANKIPILE . We operated a huge pile driving machine ...and guess what...the foreman and main men operating that machine were aboriginals. We put down the concrete piles for some of the tallest buildings built at that time all over Queensland, NSW and yes, right in the inner-city area. On Friday nights we would all go to the pub together up on Spring Hill.

you are still charged the primitive connection charge today like at 1.16

"it feels weird knowing that all the people you just saw are dead"??? It's 1964 not 1864! And it's just as I remember it. Not there weren't a lot of black, brown or Asian people around back then, some, yes, but not in the proportions of today.

This documentary only shows the bright side version of the typical lifestyle and neglects to show the darker aspect of society in that era. There were areas in a big city where they had homeless men, drunks, outcasts, and certain criminal element hidden from the public view.

This era was a much more civilised one. People were nicer.

Wish our food prices were the same now as back then.lol

Found the house its : 23 Tenby Street, Mount Gravatt !!

VoVo's at 7.28m!

hot dang, 1950s wife!

isnt it good to c brissy is as exciting back then as it is now

my god how things have changed

watching this back in the 60's if it didn't make you want to immigrate nothing would back then £10 and you were on the ship everything was easy then

plot twist: this is a Brisbane film from the future. 2164

Whats the group at 12:56?

Loos very similar to American life in the sixties, Australia and the USA don't seem so much different

What tune are the Salvos playing at 15:40?

Surely it can’t be that bad in OZ these days , as a Brit it’s really hard to get in these days so your immigration can’t be that bad ? You should see what’s it’s like in the UK we let anyone in here !!!!

Was this run to attract the poms?

Where in Brisbane is the church at 15:29?

95% of scenes my first thought is "WTH is that??" I feel a desperate need to place every scene.

Orhh Lord, thank God that era is over. Those shots of that banal home life gave me knots in the stomach.

that certainly looks like it. How the heck did you find that? ahaha

06:48 pretty dodgy road crossing by the school kid...straight across from behind a bus without looking. I wonder if he's still alive?