The maker of this film should give it to the sound and film archive in Canberra. It is a true and perfect example of a day in the life of a major Australian city in the middle of the 1970's. I was a 9 yr old from Wollongong often visiting my relatives in Sydney. Wow the cars have changed so much. I love historical films like these.

This is seriously a historically important film, its really well done (plus I love the look of Super 8!). I can remember as a little kid that this is what Sydney was like in the 70s!

Nearly every car in this was made not only in Australia but in Sydney. Page wood for Holden, Homebush for Ford and Rosebery for Morris.

I just saw 48 years of my life flash by!

Sydney, how i want to remember it! Thankyou for posting.

Thank you for sharing your home movie. I was 20 in 1975, working at the Bank of NSW. The streets, cars, fashion and footy - all Aussie. Before everything became globali$ed.

Back when made in Australia was on just about everything, including the people.

After 50 years, still in Sydney. I remember those days. Cars back then had character.

man every car is a classic .

Brilliant, thanks for sharing! This is so nicely edited, it's perfect! I can imagine at the time ... "why do you want to waste film driving around Sydney?" ... 50 years later ... "THANK YOU SO MUCH for filming something as mundane as city traffic ... the roads, the buildings, the AUSSIE MADE CARS!"

This is the real speed of Sydney 2019.

A few people have mentioned the speed of this video. In the early 70's I purchased my first Super 8 movie camera & I spent several weeks trying to figure out all the features it had. Normal filming speed was 24fps but this camera also had a time lapse setting of 9 fps. I wondered one day what would happen if I went into the city & did some timelapse filming & I also mounted the camera in my car for the trip home. It was all for a bit of fun & you can see the result. I almost threw the film out several years ago but I'm glad I decided not to.

Hard not to be nostalgic over this old Sydney! I was at that game with my Dad,we are from Bondi. I thank you & Cheers!

Emigrated to Sydney from Scotland in Dec 1974 so 1975 was my first full year here. I'm back living here after 30 years in Perth. I now call it S.I.N.O. (Sydney in name only). Sung to the tune of 'Where have all the flowers gone'?..."Where have all the Aussie's gone?"...so sad!

Thank you ross myers for not tossing this out. What you thought would an interesting experiment is now a historic slice of life in Sydney in the mid 70's. It is often the mundane things that are often not recorded that become fascinating with time. I have often thought of doing something similar where I live.

what great memories and so many Australian made cars...

"Dashcam" before it was a thing! A literal trip down memory lane. Kind regards.

My first year at School & how magical I thought Sydney was as a small boy

This is absolutely wonderful. Very nostalgic, very creative, and Donna Summers is a great choice. No ugly high rises in sight. Oxford Street looks half decent. A lot more open parkland along the Moore Park area. A happy, vibrant city.

I was 8yrs old Oh how i miss the look of those days so much ..we had a better life back then..luv the 70's.& the cars back then

How things have changed....Sydney is so massive. So much construction going on with so many apartments. Even the suburbs are becoming concrete jungles.

It was so strange to see parts of Sydney I've lived, especially when you turned onto Flinders St, I lived with my now wife on the right hand side after the service station where the building with the first arch is. It all looks very similar to when we lived there in '96, but very different but same to now. Great video!

That bloody Liverpool St/College St/Oxford St intersection: still a mongrel! Thank you very much for taking time to re-format and upload this Mr/Mrs/Ms Ramdarook!

fascinating footage when 'Made in Australia' was the norm and opportunity knocked.

You should do the same routes today and film it then put the two videos side by side, would be great to compare the changes. Seen this done elsewhere and it looks great.

Very compelling footage, thank you for uploading. I live in Western Canada now, but spent 20 years in East Sydney and Woolloomooloo - made me ‘homesick’. One interesting fact a lot of people don’t know is that many major Sydney streets were built on and follow the original Aboriginal tracks, in particular South Dowling, Bourke Street down to Woolloomooloo and Botany Road is another one.

I liked the scene going down South Dowling Street past the old Resch's brewery and the old ACI glass factory . I was booked by a cop down that short stretch of freeway going to the airport one morning going to work on my Yamaha RD400 . Doing 120 in an 80 zone . Bright sunny morning just before Christmas 1980 . He was a nice bloke . He lowered my speed on the ticket . Great memories .

Life was so much better back then Especially in the 1980s

3: 36 Wow - Southern Cross Drive with actual flowing traffic. The M5 has a lot to answer for...

I was 6 years back in 1975, what great memories. Good to see Easts (that's what I still call them and support them) have the same amount of fans today as they had back then 😆🤭

He's going from Oxford st Paddington down South Dowling st onto Southern Cross drive towards the airport. How the buildings have been knocked down and high rises put up recently

Thanks for making, keeping and uploading this film for the future history! well done, Mate

Beautiful Sydney ❤👍🏻

Was in Sydney in 1976 made some great mates I lived Manly and had lots of fun. I then returned home to Brisbane but I’ve never forgotten those memories love Sydney ❤❤

I’m glad you didn’t throw it out too. And the sound track is perfect!

For the driving part of the video, I'm not sure where the first part is taken, but once it cuts to being in the city, I'm fairly sure it's as follows: -Travelling west on Park Street (Hyde Park to left and right) -Turns left onto Elizabeth Street, going south (Hyde Park on left) -Goes south down Elizabeth Street two blocks, past Bathurst Street -Turns left onto Liverpool Street, going east (the two-lane slip lane is still there today and very recognizable) -Continues east down Liverpool Street for three blocks, past Nithsdale and Commonwealth Streets -Turns right onto Oxford Street, going east (now this would be going straight on as Liverpool Street further on is inaccessible from this alignment) -Continues down Oxford Street until Taylor Square, turns right onto Flinders Street going south -Continues down Flinders Street, eventually turns right on S Dowling Street, going south -Continues down S Dowling Street (this route is now the Eastern Distributor, but it wasn't built until the 90s so it's just a road) -S Dowling eventually turns into Southern Cross Drive (built 1969) -Southern Cross Drive and video ends at Wentworth Avenue, Eastlakes - wasn't extended to connect with the airport tunnel until 1988.

I visited Sydney in 1975....went with my grandparents to see my great grandmother in Balmain...i was 17/18

Thanks this is fantastic. I was 13 in 1975. I had so much fun in this city a few years later I'm surprised they had Southern Cross Drive then but I checked and it was built in 1969

Ahh the days when you could actually drive (and turn right!!!) around Sydney...

I would love to see some of the original non-sped up footage especially the first parts from Sydney City going into Flinders Street!

🇦🇺WOW! A plenty of beautiful big cars ....🕊🕊Sydney was a mix of LONDON and NEW YORK. Thanks for sharing🦋🦋🦋.

Back When about 80% of the cars on the road were Australian

And not an overweight person in sight. I wonder what year that started to change.

How I remember Sydney when I first came here it was such a beautiful city a nice place to live & to get about..💜

Our lives functioned quite well 1975 without internet

Back when nearly every vehicle you see on the road was made in Australia or at least had significant local input into it's manufacture.

Awesome, thanks for the trip back in time 👍👍

Love it. Thank you. Great to see all the old, cars, roads and buildings at a time before social media and all the critics out there. A time when people would say good morning with a smile and not the intent to rob you. Cheers.

A really good video! The time lapse parts gave me flashbacks to Cold Chisel's Saturday Night video. And was great to see a time when Australian-made cars were on our roads! Full points!!

Wish there was such a thing as a time machine....I'd buy a one way ticket. Great video..cheers.

Sydney will never ever be the same again 😞

I can already feel the respect for this video

Love the footage and the editing and soundtrack. I never knew about the Paris Theatre on the corner of Liverpool St and Wentworth Ave until seeing this. And I never knew following a Ford Escort along South Dowling Street could be so dynamic and mesmerising.

Awesome...takes me back...right past my student house in Surry Hills 1975

Fabulous! Two years later I completed my HSC and went to work in the city. Sure looks the same to me.

I remember those cabs with cb radios and those rickety old buses & trains. It wasn't until the 80's that modernization became more evident

You could get from one side of Sydney to the other in the blink of an eye!

This is why they’re called “The good old days”.

Amazing. It's exactly the same, but different.

Unreal. I didn't know they had street-cams and dash-cams back then. Great time. I was 19 then.

What a classic...not to mention the cars....I for one am glad you did not throw out the film....Al

I bought a IH truck in Sydney back in 77' and bumped into 6 dockshands for the ships in the harbour. We drank many a round as one shouted then the other then by the time it got to me I had to.Got very shit faced and i had the world record for time as in pissing in Sydney harbour.They were impressed.Great people great country.Especially the outback.

Just great...... brought back a lot of memories seeing all the old buildings, streets,people rushing around everywhere that there appointment is more important than yours hahaha that was a top video thanks....

I was born on Oct 4, 1975. Taipei City, Taiwan.

Incredible. So much of Sydney hasnt changed that much.

Wow , no food poisoning , no hex debts , no violent home invasions ,no meth epedemic , people had jobs and time to relax on the weekend and after work , people lined for things , cops would give directions and the buildings looked like they belonged there .

Awesome video. Totally enjoyable

Good on you Ross, epic footage

Wish we still had those funky buses

At 3:31 the footage shows a speed limit 50 (mph) sign. This would suggest the footage is earlier than 1975. Australian roads went metric in July 1974.

Perfect! Great work.

I arrived in Sydney 1982 this is how it was back then.

done that trip a few times ...heading back south after a day in the city....Roosters old ground Sydney Sports ground, two stadiums ago😂😂😂

RIP Sydney.

Love it! Making me homesick here in sweaty Singapore. Sin City all day

A crossing on South Dowling St. Hilarious! And it was 3 lanes!!! I remember that and Sydney's population was less than half of what it is today. Now it is funnelled into one lane. That's intelligent planning. This was filmed before Sydney was ruined by too much development trying to house a population it cannot support. Also remember those traffic lights at Link Rd which my friends don't believe were ever there but there is the evidence. Thanks!

My first thought was "why would you choose to wreck historical footage by playing this at high speed?", but Ramdarook has explained this. Good historical footage when played at 25% tempo. I note some late 70's Valiants here. Martin Place still had two-way traffic. Thanks for posting. .

Looks strange seeing traffic flow southbound at Taylor square

This is G R E A T footage!!! Have you got any more?

I love looking at that Monaro on this made me regret not buying one. Great video

For a split second at 4:13, you can see a silver Datsun 240C in the right hand lane. I have one of these, I bought in Sydney. It's now resprayed light blue, but the aftermarket towbar is the same as the one in the film, could be the same car.

When bookmakers bet nearly every race to 96%. Heaven. In 1979 there were 52 bookmakers at Wentworth Park dogs. Plus about 16 in Ledger betting to losing figures on most races. You could get on to win 10k with any of the big bookmakers. Now there would be lucky to be four. What happened. Best time in Australia 70's and early eighties. Heaven

blast from the past....lived in Sydney fom 1980-1991

Thank you so much

Back when football team names were their locality and really had a sense of belonging, before corporatisation replaced them with miscellaneous animal names so they would have more 'portability' when teams were sold to other cities.

Not that many Japanese cars hey? Holdens and Fords everywhere. You should be thanked for capturing theses moments. It’s is a real treasure. I’m nearly sixty and I am stunned at how horrible Sydney has become.

I was living and working in Sydney back in 1975. I remember all this well. Excellent video. From memory the red/blue colour taxi cabs were run by Legion. In those days, I worked in the State Office block, better known as "the black stump". Even that has disappeared in recent years along with all the green and blue old double deck buses.

Everything from the old days had meaning and value.👍🌹

Love this.. ❤️

Wow thank you😍

Wholly Geez, South Dowling street was a 6 lane highway! and traffic flowed!

amazing, the buildings look familiar!

Back in the day. I was six years old in first class with Mrs Montgomery, her mini skirts weren't wasted on a pack of six year old boys though.

Fantastic. Heaps of buildings I remember which are now gone

*points* "Oh look, children, look!. Here is Sydney with actual Australians in it before they all disappeared!"

3.12 in and on the right it’s the EPL lift test tower where I worked,also the old Paris theatre where I saw my mates in the band called “ subversion “ play around 75/76 great days

That was really good.

Ah, South Dowling Street and onto the freeway to the airport. All those old factories, which I think are apartments now. Great memories.

The amazing streamlined moderne building that was ACI in Alexandria. Gone now of course.

This is great footage but personally, i would've liked it set wholly to Aussie music to give it a real home grown flavour that gives all those memories more vibrance. Good work mate.