Wow that's interesting information. Thanks for letting us know.

As I've posted elsewhere, you must be that very sweet-natured and pretty blonde girl then. Your genuine character shines through, and was evidenced in your adult years when you adopted and fostered so many kids from desperate backgrounds. Well done.

@@NFSAFilms you guys should pin this comment.

Are they your actual parents? You look Estonian

@@wayinfront1 I am that little girl but older now LOL

My dad was born in 54 so the 60s was his childhood

Born in the 60's also &. Grew Up on Manly Beach, NSW. We were so Blessed to have the Childhoods we did.😌

Me too. I was also born in 1961 and grew up at Allambie Heights. What a fantastic time to be a child in those innocent and carefree times. We spent so many lazy, hazy summer days down at Manly harbour pool, either swimming and playing on the pontoons or fishing off the jetty on the other side of the boardwalk. So many happy times.

Hey great comments and thanks for sharing your story. We love history and strive to bring as much of it as we can back to the future. Thanks for the nice feedback.

Unfortunately, the world has changed. Protectionism no longer works in a globalised economy. You simply cannot compete with manufacturing powerhouses like China. If protectionism were to continue Australia's living standards would decline. This is similar to the Americans longing for the days when you could leave high school and get a union paying job in one of the factories, work there for your entire life, and make enough to live comfortably. Without getting into the complexities, that was a unique period that only existed at that point in time. It could never fly in today's world. We will just have to adapt and look forward.

Yes the world keeps turning. Sunset here sunrise there.

Same here, same expeience, being a son of new Australians

Trips, Spot-on comment from you! I spent time working (engineering) in Oz back before the cancer of Postmodernism invaded Canberra. There was less variety in the shops back then, and prices were higher for some goods, but the overall quality of life---and a feeling of social camaraderie, even with strangers, far exceeded conditions today. I am so thankful that I experienced it when it was the safest, happiest, and cleanest urban civilization in the world.

andrew gray is your Dad still alive? Fascinating!

andrew gray oh my! He did a great job🤗

Andrew , mate your father is a legend mate. Love and respect from India sir. Your politicians played a jerk game and messed up everything . Life was better and fascinating back then. Watching from India man. I can feel what Aussies feel now a days. Have a great time ahead.

Mister Andrew gray that's true. this film directed to your father

Oh my God old Australia looking very beautiful

You have no idea just how good you had it compared to today

Which person is you ?

Imyes i loved them days i remember the little milks we drank everyday at school beautiful days in the 70s

@@julieielasi4156 I was an 80s kid. We didn’t have the little milks. Wish we did lol.

I just loved my childhood growing up at Allambie Heights on the northern beaches. I was born in 1961 and can vouch for the accuracy of this film and how idyllic it was to be a child in those carefree times. I would love to have it confirmed if the teacher in this film was Mr J J Hume. He became the Principal of the newly-built Allambie Heights Public School when it completed in 1959. He was obviously still a teacher at the time of this film at the unknown school featured. I attended AHPS from 1967 to 1973, where he continued as Principal there until his retirement many years after I left to go to high school. Unfortunately the credits don’t show the names of those who featured in this film for me to confirm if this is actually Mr Hume. Are you able to advise?

jonquil graham WOW ! Do you still all live in Sydney?

@@trixie-bellfaith5380 Not now. I live in New Zealand and adopted and fostered many children. My third book will soon be available about raising our large family from different parts of the world.

jonquil graham Thankyou and I am looking forward to reading your books.

😮😮 how old a the youngest here? The mum left him that the supermarket haha 😄

@@sarah3796 Hi Sah, the little boy was 2 years old. He was the son of the Grip (film technician). In those days the world was a lot safer and mothers parked their babies in prams outside shops and dogs were tied to a post. I remember making the movie like it was yesterday.

Coz we import EVERYTHING and pay for it on the never never. Nothing made here and the best food goes offshore.

How are all the people in Sydney surviving now then?

Nice post. Hi from Warburton! Probably changed massively since you were here.

@Colmillo Blanco and yours. the product of a rampant Dunning Kruger Effect it would seem.

@@BettyBettyBoBetty The 80s was pretty good too, pity, it didn't last long enough.

sadly there is a bit further for us to fall yet - not long now

@@rossie273 Yep! It's coming. It's inevitable now. The sooner the final big show down comes over feminism etc, the better. Once political correctness is completely rooted out of Australian society, we can begin to rebuild it. All nice and clean, moral, decent, high Aussie standards. Don't need this crap!.

Hi Ian, well spotted. Thanks for letting us know. Location and people detail always welcome.

NFSA Films it’s been a month since last video. When is the next one coming. Live this channel I’m a subscriber to. Are you on Facebook??

Where did you get that idea from?

WOW - that must have bought back memories

Me too and it was wonderful.

definitely like this when I got her

I could have been here earlier too. Growing up in Germany, my parents were "bullied" by my grandmother to move 70 km from her home only instead of 120 km as my parents had intended. Another 16000 km to Australia ? NO WAY ! That was my task in 1984.

So what's stopping you ? Australia isn't much like what's shown in this great film and i know times have moved on but Australia is different

@@dave1001 Very simple. Money. Australia is very expensive.

Don't come by boat!

@@MrAlcazar yes Australia is expensive both to live here as well as get to but it's worth it in the long run

@@hughmcinally907 no flying is quicker lol

Mate you should know better. Look at the cars. FB EK and EJ Holden's. EJ's were not sold until 1963...

I was...it was a great life...free education right up through university. Free healthcare (in Australia, that is...) and virtually full employment because we made everything from socks to radios to tvs to cars here. Now we make nothing...thanks to globalisation and China.

tripsadelica Same in Spain mate, however we spend a struggles times like civil war and Franco's dictatorship, unfortunately don't back the good old days. Cheers from Barcelona!!

@@tripsadelica Don't we still make cars though? (Holden)

@@OheyBro Na it's all gone. Expensive labour. If we were to abloish the minimum wage, everything should've run smoothly. Increasing minimum wage hurts the economy.

Except for countries under Soviet rule.

Yes and they would never dreamed that our Banks had been foolish enough to adopted the near zero percent monertry policies from the US Federal Reserve system which has created this massive mortgage debt bubble in home valuations.

Not the only area. Some suburbs, whole street blocks have been bought up, with lots of trees and backyards, only to be smashed up for mega concrete, micro apartment, high rise bunkers, changing the micro climate too.

Chris, I think you will like the NFSA one on Melbourne briefly covering horse drawn milk delivery : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iqlnd5iFxNPDXZ8.html Transferred from film by the NFSA at 4K for this version. Shot from 1964 and 1965. Released 1966. In Essendon one dairy had horse drawn delivery up until 1987. I was amazed when I found out myself. Any recollection of when your horse delivery finished? As a kid I used to catch a lift on the milk cart on rare occasions. Pity they only seemed to have captured this briefly in Melbourne only.

YES, stay positive.... it is the BEST!😊

People like you is the fundamental component of Australian strength.

Its just rose co loured glasses you got there . Things just didn't get talked about then . Kiddy fiddling , alcoholism , wife beating , poverty , racism , sexism . All this stuff was rampant . Things are better now because its out in the open and we all talk about it and deal with it . The country is a actually a much better place now than then .

@@Fractalite I didn’t mention anything about the issues you’ve brought up here. I was only a child then, I would hardly have known about that stuff, let alone it was going on. As a kid growing up then, Australia was the best country to live in then and still is. I think you’ll find those issues are far worse now. That wasn’t my point though, I was talking about how great it was to grow up here and be an Aussie whether the ‘70s or the 21st Century.

@@Fractalite those things are still with us and will always be. talk is cheap.

Definitely politer, but I think you'd be hard pressed to have the older son of that "family" of the time be able to dazzle you with his calculus skills.

lol, snap out of it. Today is even better

@@nikchris69 not sure that it is. Technology is they only thing that has improved everything else went backwards.

Me Too, Phoebe😔 But, I was privileged to live in these times....great memories 😉.Take Care , Stay Safe in these scary times🙋🏻‍♀️🇦🇺🕊

I feel the same even I arrived here by myself and in 1989. But seeing the good old times makes me emotional

Loved that cream on the top.

fordlandau And every time he drop the letter in the box he blows whistle, l remember that very well.

Yes, and it was ok to discriminate against the indigenous Australians, steal their land and children, imprison them, keep in poverty and not pay for their labour. Wonderful times indeed!!!

You sound like a boomer.

Lieutenant Colombo?

++1

.....too much golf....haha

But remember Holden was still always foreign owned under General Motors.

HOLDEN - Holdens body works was Aussie owned . GMH is American owned . We did used to build Aussie cars back then .

My Dad drove a big Jaguar - he was very proud of it!

Food wasn’t as proceeded back then. So less sugar was also consumed as well as kids and adults were PHYSICALLY busy.

@@HGCUPCAKES Yes we can thank the influx of american culture of all the sugar and processed food.

To add, as cars have became more affordable, less people walk. Children get driven instead of walking.

We would love for that to happen. Until then you're welcome to enjoy them here.

No salt on the roads here.It helps.

I was looking for this comment 👍

The film crew were watching the child.

@@justgrand3429 Who knows, one would hope.......

@@justgrand3429 Even in the 70's young children ran around the neighborhood unsupervised. Usually all day.

Even in the 60s and 70s children were snatched by sickos

Glad you are enjoying them, Trang

Me too Trang!

I think the Aboriginals may disagree with you regarding your timeline concerning when greed and wealth focus took over.

Another one.....

Thank you for your thoughts. Glad you enjoyed the film.

After I arrived and lived in the hostel in S.A. it took me only one visit to the employment office to find a job, yes it was in a factory. I hated the work as it was nightshift. One other visit to the employment office and that gave me an other job straight away in a dry cleaning which was day time. I was happy.. I decided to travel a little and as I got of the train I walked into an hotel and had a job as a house keeper. Yes it was that easy in the 60's. In my original country I had worked in an office for 7 years. I was 23 at the time I got here and could not speak English. I got free English migrant lessons in the hostel and later by correspondence. It took me 6 months to speak English enough to communicate properly.

No different from what was happening in UK at that time. In the end, I chose Canada but now have a son living in Brisbane - ironic!

Yeah these days it’s takes 2 weeks to receive a piece of local mail. Cause they send it to a ‘Sorting Location’ first, which is quite often 100s of kms away.

Compared with the trash service we now get from the feminist dominated Australia Post and all its recent corruption etc. Unheard of back then, when it was the PMG, a government department. I know because I worked there as a young girl, monitoring g the telephone exchange, doing all the mail etc. There were strict rules, control. Once, I accidently flicked a wrong switch on the old telephone exchange switch board and didn't realize that I was effectively inadvertantly eavesdropping g on a private telephone conversation. In a flash, this stern authoritarian voice from Melbourne came on to inform me of my potentially very serious privacy invading g offence and I had to explain, in a state of shock, how I didn't mean it and had heard nothing, just someone say "Hello, nice to hear from you" to the other person on the li e I should not have been listening to. I was let of with a stern warning that I would be prosecuted if ever caught again doing such illegal things that invade privacy. But, hey, look at all the potentially deadly privacy invasions Australia Post is guilty of, on a daily basis. Like letters eg containing g bankcards, ID etc being delivered to wrong addresses. Maybe some fraudster or homocidal maniac his next murder or some deranged ex husband hell bent on murdering or harming his ex partner, stealing her kids etc. The mind boggles.But nobody dares complain. Because they are women and migrants and oh so politically correct and it could end up in court costing g you a fortune to achieve nothing because such feminist/multicultural corruption in Victoria is now "networked" among feminists in every key bureaucracy, so as soon as you complain, they get on the blower, ignoring g all the privacy laws when it suits them to do so but insisting on them to suit their own ends. And they forewarn the grievance mechanism feminists a out "what's coming", so your complaint never gets a fair hearing. Even if you go to court, you may not get a fair go because feminists have that form of judicial " networking" ie corruption also all stitched up to suit themselves and their mothers, daughters, sisters. They must be crushed if we are to have a decent homeland. It can never be as good as it was, due to the toxic effects of .multiculturalism that causes standards to plummet. But if both feminism and multiculturalism could be crushed, Australian society might not be as bad as it now is. Maybe time for a new hard lockdown, I think.... It was so clean and nice and peaceful during the last hard Victorian lockdown. A bit of a pain wearing masks etc, though OK in winter, for facial warmth. But definitely worth putting g up with such minor inconvenience. Bring on another hard lockdown this winter in Victoria, now that they have recovered from the last one and feminists etc are starting to get too confident again. They need cutting down to size and chastising, as do their millennial offspring g and some of their old girl mothers suddenly converted to feminism by their cash strapped user daughters and on a bit of a menopausal old girls feminist authority trip. You see them in charity op shops, post offices, school crossings, supermarkets, wielding hand sanitizer bottles, ordering and marshalling customers around etc etc eg in one door, exit by another (I deliberately infuriate these old girls by doing the reverse then acting like I am a "mental case" and if they get nasty I just burst into tears, very loudly and publicly, pull out my disability pensioner Health Care Card, sob about discrimination and generally carry on..... Until their husband or some other such partner they have comes to rescue me and kiss it better, ignoring their dragon feminist old girl wife. I just thank them sweetly, reassure the kid men I'll be OK and get out fast, because I know a major "scene" will explode as soon as such working old girl wives confront their "partner" about his behaviour ie helping single women being g abused by such old neo feminist hand sanitizer wielding Aussie dragon women. In the 60's we called these types of Aussie old vinegar tits business women "Aussie frill neck lizards", on account of being typically very skinny, with long crepey wrinkly necks, stuffy coiffures, Same Edna Everadge spectacles on a chain and, of course, the obligatory white 'frill necked" business woman's blouse worn by office women, who were typically glorified typists, with a Madam Batwing older one in charge of the girlie typing pool, who wore the frill neck white business blouse, to show her authority over the rest of her clueless bored bimbos just killing time there until they could snare some hapless dude into marrying them eg by getting pregnant. No more frill necked Madam Batwing, no more shit to type perfectly.... Freedom was washing dishes at your home kitchen sink and changing baby's nappy and cooking hubby's dinner, washing his sox and jox. But times have now changed, ruined by feminism. Though most young women and many older ones, too, wish they still had this female right that feminism stole from them. Simply because they allowed feminists to lead them astray. I was one of the few who dared, in my youth, to question emerging g feminist politics. When I suggested that not all women have to become dismal female failures at womanhood, just because a few leading the feminist push and shove are, I got howled down and had violent threats made against me, by other politically aggressive feminists. These types are now in political positions of authority, in media etc. Going on ad nauseum about women not getting a fair hearing. What women?Who?Where? And which powerful women are perpetrating the very abuses they complain about? Enough said.

@@anon2131 That was quite a rant!

As there are today, there were wealth differences back then. I would not say that your experience was typical, nor would I say this is either. But poverty was not a defining feature of Australian life.

We came out here and within five years bought a beautiful house in a good suburb, we went on holidays and had a swimming pool. A few years later my uncle and his family came out as well. They soon bought a nice house in a good area. My ex-husband’s family came out from Italy before us, and they also soon bought a beautiful house. Your experience isn’t typical.

Fauntleroy reference for the win ! Congratulations, you’ve won a stretch Armstrong and a copy of Picnic at hanging rock!

Nigel Nobody Thanks to feminism.

Catness Everwild yeah since most of them are single and childless.

Hey, I am working on one job and can support wife and child living in Sydney.

Destroy the family unit. Destroy society. So very sad.

Both parents go out and work and actually have a life .

Beautiful 35mm film. Even when highly compressed for You Tube.

Film quality was high back then. If anything, it got worse in the 70s.

Three strip technicolor. The same stuff was used in Hollywood. It produced rich vibrant colours...not the pastelly crap of today's film stock.

@@tripsadelica I can't ever recall 3 strip Technicolor being used in Australia. It was rendered obsolete in the early 1950s by Eastmancolor, on which this film would have been shot. As a result, I expect the NFSA had to do a fair bit of restoration work to counter colour dye fade and the sometimes glaring contrast and high saturation of some cuts may bear testimony to their work in salvaging the print (I doubt they would have the negative) on which this was presented.

it is, especially through rose tinted glasses...

I worked in cafes in my tourist resort hometown and had to make these banana boat sundaes deserts featuring vertically split banana to form the boat sides, two scoops of vanilla icecream, ideally Streets or Dairy Bell, the best and I know because I also made icecream in an icecream factory. Red and green and yellow jelly went between the icecream balls with extra banana horizontal slices. It was all drizzled in banana milk shake flavouring and chopped nuts spring led on top. And then came the whipped cream on top of each ice ream ball. The final touches on the banana boat, served in a special glass dish, were the sails. Diagonally cut icecream wafers stuck on the cream, like a a yacht's sails. Tourists devoured these by the hundreds each day. I couldn't keep up serving them. (But I never ate any myself because us girls dealing with the public had to look slim and attractive. Hence no stuffing our faces on the nice food we had to make for tourists,though management did feed us well. Just no fattening stuff. Like Banana boats. Let the tourists get fat, in stead. After a good time holiday experience.

people voted liberal

@@jaynemeulman8484 ''GIVE me control of a Nation's money supply, and I care not who makes it's Laws'' question more.

Corporate greed,

Simple. Banks were deregulated. Repayments previously were not allowed to be more than 25% of one income. Now, couples are on a treadmill of exhaustion paying 1 million dollar mortgages. In the past, our arrogant tradies had to dovetail their costs to what the market dictated.

Everyone's greed. Living in an investment, not a home. Council rate time: "You've got to be kidding ! Our place is NOT THAT much worth ..." Sales time: "You've got to be kidding ! Our place is FAR MORE worth ..." Real Estate 'Land rat', collecting 3% commission from the sale: "Certainly, we will spruce it up to pass an auction with maximum outcome." Talk among parents: "Shocking inflation. How can our kids afford a house and land package ?"

and don't forget radio licences.

Hi Lyndon, My Dad directed this film. He passed on in 2004 but your kind comments also "makes my heart smile" and remember my Dad with great fondness. Thanks Mate!

Yeah, right. Ten pound Poms buying land in Frenches Forest. I call bullshit.

Hi John, thanks for the positive feedback. Yes it is a great film, glad you enjoyed it. KZfaq doesn't seem to allow for that kind of crowd source tagging but it would be a great feature.

Wow, same age as me. Great memories.

You may be needing to live in the car at today's prices.

No safety glasses

I’m Australian and first time I flew within Europe I was amazed how close places were. I flew between Athens and London within 4 hours. It took me 3.5 hours only to fly from Sydney to Uluru!

Good luck getting a flight there. Then you have to quarantine for two weeks at $3500 a week.

@@anneofgreengables1619 not right now tho'. Could be in 5 years

Thanks for your comments. Good luck to you too.

The future is Asia and we’re better off lol says Mr Wong This was a paradise never to be seen again.

Morgan Hayward Overall because much of handwork that build your infrastructures were from Europe. In counterpart China and other asian countries drives with US economy like EU countries. If USA happens other bankruptcy they carry to all of us unavoidablement.

@@theanswer4541 Is that Shakespeare?

The world has certainly changed. Technology has connected business globally and Australia has and will need to continue to adapt to this. Someone on the other side of the world wants the same opportunities as seen in this video, and with a connected world they no longer need to migrate to get some of these opportunities and are willing to offer the same services for less money. For some Australian's this change has left some worse off (relative to other Australians), for the other person on the other side of the world maybe that now means some basic luxuries that Australian's have been accustomed to for decades. But it isn't all bad news, for Australian's that have invested in their education our work is still valuable and we certainly have more luxuries at lower prices then ever before. Cheap electronics, cheap clothes, the overseas holiday, a safe reliable modern car, and a foodie culture that has more types of food than we can poke a stick at. So when you put everything into perspective Australia is doing alright in these modern times. Looking back we sometimes look at it through rose tinted glasses, but not everything was perfect back then either.

59 I was not yet 2yo. Although I wasn't living there I worked for Telecom construction in the 80's and worked the whole peninsular so got to know the area very well above and below ground. Originally based at St Leonards and then relocated to a yard in Balgowlah. The civils crews there were either Italian or Croatian. I was with the Italians for a while. Croatians were further north around Narrabeen and Mona Vale while the Italians were Dee Why Allambie Heights areas. My work there ranged from North Head North Sydney Chatswood Hornsby to Barenjoey, it was a big area to cover.

Just remember that these immigrants are from England. They were encouraged to come to Australia to keep the country ‘racially pure ‘. It was much harder for other migrants.

@@milly5568 Nah australia had chinese migrants since the 1800s, and most migrants since federation where europeans, not english. Our popualtion is mostly of irish origin, dont talk about something you know nothing about.

Migrants were also really discriminated against called shocking names and treated as factory fodder. I know cause I lived through the era. The past is always a golden age

@@dopaminedreams1122 No we're not of irish origin, most White Australians cite English as their largest ancestry.

@@dopaminedreams1122 White Australia policy. There was always a catch and trick, avoiding those Chinese being on the same citizenship level than the British. Look at WW I. Citizens of German or "enemy nation" background, born in Australia, even in 2nd and more generations, were interned in camps and villages and towns were renamed. How petty is that ?

Thanks for sharing your memories Norman. This is the place to find as much of the various government film units production as we can put up. Lots more to go.

Written by Bernie and directed by my dad John Gray.

Yes, the government need to regulate where immigrants reside when they move to a new country. So they all flock to the big cities making them overpopulated and driving housing prices up. Supply and demand. So we are told we need to keep bringing more immigrants in, to replace an aging populace, but with automation where are the jobs? Lets ask the aboriginals or first nations what they think.

@@contessaanthrope5775 Property prices having risen in the country areas since COVID-19 too. Unless they are placed in flood or fire prone locations.

Glad to hear it!

I thought that about this film...except for the accent...it was JUST like growing up in middle class New Orleans...

They sound very British to me (an Australian)

sounded like they still had their British accents

The projects have become more complex too at risen wages. Reigning in the costs, allowing for profit, such modern gimmicks are essential for efficient building.

Greetings to you Tomica. Hope you make it here one day.

Tomica...if you have a particular skill, like engineering or a medical degree it will be much easier for you to migrate to Australia. You can already read and write English and that is also a positive on your behalf. Unfortunately it is not that easy to migrate to Australia anymore like it was in the 50s when my parents came here (I was born here). The government has finally realised that our infrastructure is not keeping up with our population growth and our natural resources like water provision are becoming stretched...so only the best of migrants are allowed in...especially ones with skills we need. Good luck to you...you are obviously keen to do well and I hope you make it over here.

Tomica Jovevski Thankyou! We would love to have you😊