City Of Millions, NFSA, Sydney History, 1964 Construction of Modern Sydney, AMP Tower.

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City of Millions was a NSW Government film in 1964 used to promote the development and construction of the city of Sydney. The documentary covers a time in Sydney's history where the birth of the construction of modern high rise building and skyscraper had just begun.
In this documentary we are lucky enough to see "Sydney life" in full colour with automobiles, computer technology and a full manufacturing industry with strong work ethic reflecting the culture of Sydney people in 1964. "if it's wanted this city will make it"
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00:19 Alfred Street Tower Circular Quay
01:30 Milsons Point Eastern flyover
02:35 Central Station Sydney
03:57 Sydney CBD life
05:22 Sydney Manufacturing Industry
06:47 Hyde Park
09:00 Domain Car Park Sports Fields
09:20 Sydney Harbour
10:23 Sydney's Mascot Airport
10:50 Mitchell Library NSW
11:44 Sydney High-rise Construction
13:34 Sydney College Building 1964
13:53 Australia Square Development
14:23 The Rocks Redevelopment
15:03 Sydney's Urban Sprawl
16:45 Sydney the Island, Gladesville Bridge
18:19 Opera House Under Construction
18:56 Velvet Dark of Night & Wonderland of Stars

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28 сен 2024

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@SydneyHistory Год назад

What aspect of this documentary struck a cord with you? I was surprised to see so many woman working in manufacturing in 1964.

@neil2402 Год назад

We had a manufacturing industry in those days! Interesting to see the construction workers without any regard to safety - would never happen today. The identity of the man in the taxi and library bugged me, but I've looked him up - it was Kit Taylor.

@SydneyHistory Год назад

@@neil2402 Yes, no hard hats or vest or harness walking along planks of wood with a ciggie. What attracted you about the man in the taxi? How did you find out who he was? When watching documentaries like this of this age I can't help but think and gauge if the people would still be alive today. I would say about 70% would be dead most people over 20 years of age in the doco would be dead. sounds grim but likely true. The amazing thing is that the video quality is so clear it's like they are with us in the present.

@neil2402 Год назад

@@SydneyHistory The face looked familiar. With a lot of hard thinking(!), I realised it was the actor that played the dentist in Don's Party, so found the name from there. As to the video quality, it is an NFSA transfer so they've probably done some restoration.

@SydneyHistory Год назад

@@neil2402 yes indeed, amazing investigative work, Neil. I guess I was a bit naïve and thought they were all natural scenes.

@neil2402 Год назад

@@SydneyHistory I suspect most of them are, they just decided to use actors for a few scenes.

@iVisual.sambonkowski 3 месяца назад

its like looking at a completely different country, different people, different demographics, different value, different culture, different world. so sad we lost it forever...

@SydneyHistory 3 месяца назад

Yeah times have certainly changed.

@ktkt9982 3 месяца назад

The Sydney of my childhood ❤️

@AridersLifeYT 2 месяца назад

Take me back to this era please.

@peterhladky5481 4 месяца назад

It made me sad to see how much manufacturing we have lost 😞

@byza101 3 месяца назад

That is what I am lamenting more than anything also, I was just saying today “we produce nothing anymore”… Sydney looks so beautiful in this video. I’m 48, caught the tail end of this growing up. Sydney has changed and not for the better. The people have changed and as the narrator says, the people make the city.

@sats_nak 2 месяца назад

additionally the vision and focus on the present and future. No vision these days.

@yz9459 2 месяца назад

blame no one. The cost of labour was one of the highest in the world. And nowadays anyone is just in the trades and construction, they are still paid as one of the highest in the world.

@originalsusser 3 месяца назад

One thing I noticed was the exceedingly large number of new cars one could see in every clip. EH Holdens & Pursuit Falcons abounded. We were a wealthy country then as we are now

@Celiaperez-j3v 3 месяца назад

Nice to remember the old days in Sydney .I Love it.❤

@SydneyHistory 3 месяца назад

Yeah it was a time when Sydney took it to the next level in building construction.

@freeman10000 3 месяца назад

2:30 "NSW The senior state." Get your hand off it grandpa! Love from Western Australia 😊

@SydneyHistory 3 месяца назад

😆

@RadwynAlthor 3 месяца назад

I remenber commuting in the red rattler train. Never forget the friction on iron and leather smell I loved it. I would watch the stock board at Sydney stock exchange live I could feel the dynamic ecomomy

@shanesteere5610 2 месяца назад

My Grandfather's both built much of sydney. one was a field engineering on the Avon, cataract and caudaux dam's on the south side and my other GF built many many of the old factory chimneys that existed around the inner west out to five dock.. All long gone now.

@SydneyHistory 2 месяца назад

Wow, that's some contributions your grandfathers made to Sydney. Imagine the chimneys were similar to St Peters where the old brick works used to be and if I'm not mistaken I think John Bradfield was also involved with the Cataract dam project.

@sharongoodsell9341 3 месяца назад

Lucky it's on film we that remember are almost gone ,

@SydneyHistory 3 месяца назад

Yes it's great to have our history on film to remember what it was like.

@georgerex0 3 месяца назад

I came from Germany and arrived in Sydney in 1970, but it was very similar.

@Tobi-ln9xr 3 дня назад

Wenn das Land am Boden ist und helfende Hände an allen Ecken und Enden braucht, gehen sie nach Australien. Ist es jetzt besser in der Britischen Kronkolonie? Zum Glück ist nicht jeder Deutsche ein Verräter, ansonsten wäre das Land nicht da, wo es heutzutage ist…

@cuzakuru 3 месяца назад

Worksafe watching the construction workers in disbelief 😂😂😂. Respect though the men worked really hard with no fear amazing

@SydneyHistory 3 месяца назад

Yes it's amazing they could do all that with a bunger hanging out of their mouth.

@Secretlyanothername 2 месяца назад

More than a few people hurt themselves. My grandma used to tell me how many of her uncles died doing their jobs

@cuzakuru 2 месяца назад

@@Secretlyanothername sorry to hear but yeah construction is a tough gig

@otobusify Месяц назад

looks much better now

@poitor9217 3 месяца назад

The ol red rattlers💪🏻

@benadams6292 2 месяца назад

What the hell happened! God I was born in the wrong time.

@RaveDave871 3 месяца назад

"NSW senior state" or the dirty old man of Aus

@SydneyHistory 2 месяца назад

🤣

@markjones4485 3 месяца назад

You could tell the difference between men and women in those days

@SydneyHistory 3 месяца назад

😆

@eddielong8663 3 месяца назад

But remember that this was right when Second Wave Feminism was just beginning. So I wouldn't be talking too highly of this particular generation in the vid. As it was essentially these people that started the decline.

@RaveDave871 3 месяца назад

Yes women had beehive hairdo

@johnschannel449 2 месяца назад

Well paid jobs for everyone , affordable nice house for $20,000 anyone could afford and no mulitculturism , l guess it was paradise then compared to these days

@knowingeverythings9609 4 месяца назад

1964, I was 5y.o korean boy Seoul sth korea Now, I am 65y old Australian Sydney Australia

@RadwynAlthor 3 месяца назад

Long cultural journey

@Secretlyanothername 2 месяца назад

Congratulations! Glad to have you here!

@markcreighton3733 3 месяца назад

In 1955 my Dad was promoted to a new role in Sydney from his hometown Perth and took up a new office in Unilever House located at 1 Macquarie St. Its the very tall building next to where the Opera House was built. I wasn't born yet but Dad came home from his first day and told Mum how his new office was on the 10th floor looking at the Harbour Bridge !! Dad was aged 27yo. and was the Australian Sales Manager of Rexona Ltd a Unilever company. In 1970 I was 10yo and the 200year anniversary of Capt Cook meant a huge firework night on the harbour. My family watched it from within Unilever House.

@FFlores-fr2ew 24 дня назад

Wow that would have been a prestigious role! I've worked on the advertising end of many Unilever brands. This video is pike a time machine.

@glenndarragh4417 3 месяца назад

Always good to be reminded how far down the toilet we've gone !

@Lokkodog Месяц назад

Spot on mate

@tompchromedome Год назад

the commo Jack Mundey saved the rocks and in this case he was correct.

@nightowldickson Год назад

14:51 I guess that plan was shelved? can't remember seeing skyscrapers in the Rocks area

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Yes, it was and some might say fortunately. Sydney Living Museums currently has an exhibition called "Unrealised Sydney" where this Rocks scheme features. In the 1960s there was heavy pressure to knock things down and build new. The QVB almost suffered a similar fate, but was also saved. The Rock was probably at it's lowest point in the 1960s, run down housing commission barely an business in the area and it was not appreciated for its historical value at the time. But it was prime real estate making it most vulnerable when it came to eager developers. The closest they got was the building of the Sirius apartment complex for the department of housing, but that was in 1978 some 10 or 15 years after the time in this video.

@philipbirzulis5099 Год назад

My dad worked for an engineering firm based in the Argyle Centre in The Rocks in the 70s and 80s. And later I had great times at The Glenmore and The Lord Nelson pubs. The Rocks has a wonderful atmosphere - it's the only place in Sydney with a deep connection to history. Skyscrapers are a dime a dozen but that's unique.

@marcomaddox 3 месяца назад

Many thanks to Jack Mundie and the BLF green bans it was preserved.

@boonarga Год назад

Great to see the old northern entrance to the Cahill expressway, which was formerly a tram track. So glad that horrid vision for The Rocks never came to fruition. It was quite common for women to do factory work in those days. Much of it menial. Skilled but very repetitive.

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Yes, it was. For me it was probably one of the biggest loses from a transportation perspective. One of the hardest barriers for the Northern beaches rail link was a harbour crossing and there it was done. All it needed was a successive government to finish it. Yes that 70s looking version of the Rocks would have dated fast. It would have been a water front suburb that looked like the UTS building at Ultimo.

@judithmargret5972 Год назад

The days when it was possible to get many jobs in a day, no resumes or ID. Then we could pick which one we wanted, and the paymaster would come around on pay day, we would check our money and sign for it.

@originalsusser 3 месяца назад

@SydneyHistory I'm kinda glad a Northern Beaches railway was never built. A light rail following the original tramway to Manly then al9ng Pittwater Rd to Newport or even Palm Beach would be a better option

@hcrun 2 месяца назад

In 1964 I started working in Sydney (I lived at Arncliffe) as an apprentice electrician in the lift (elevator) industry. Every building, every location, and probably every bus and train in this doco, is familiar to me. Watching the construction of the AMP building, seeing it grow week after week, is one of the powerful memories I have of this period in my life.

@captainkydd4851 Год назад

That's the Sydney I remember. Where has it gone? I miss it.

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Yeah, it seems to change faster and faster each year. I wonder what we'll think watching a 4k video of Sydney 50 years from now.

@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393 Год назад

omg the opera house wasnt even built then ! but much better then than the crowded competittive place it is now

@SydneyHistory Год назад

@@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393 Yes it was like that moment in time where the birth of modern Sydney had just begun and some sights have become a victim of their own success and popularity. 😀

@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393 Год назад

@@SydneyHistory and non existent uraban planning/government response !

@freeman10000 3 месяца назад

I was born in Sydney in 1969. I don't miss it at all! Having a great time in Perth with my family enjoying the fact that there are no toll roads, no pokies, easier living and less stress here.

@schtaiv Год назад

crazy to think the rocks was going to be redeveloped like that! i cant imagine it

@SydneyHistory Год назад

True, I guess if it did happen, developers would be ready to pull it all down at start again. Just look at the only high rise Sirius getting redeveloped.

@schtaiv Год назад

@@SydneyHistory yeah, such a shame that the sirius is being redone, i loved how it looked before ):

@krishyket 3 месяца назад

It's a good thing it wasn't. I was there earlier and remember thinking "damn this city's weird. The city centre looks so modern but the rocks looks like the 1930s".

@RaveDave871 3 месяца назад

Ya got true blue Aussie accent there mate 😉

@SydneyHistory 3 месяца назад

Thanks mate.

@SydneyHistory 2 месяца назад

@@davidrossi1486 Thanks for your comment. I hope you enjoyed it. Did you subscribe?

@philip4193 Месяц назад

My parents arrived in Sydney as immigrants from Ireland in 1964, so this is the very city that would have greeted them back then! Wasn't much different really to me as a kid exploring the city with my dad in the mid 70's, albeit with a few more of those projects featured in the film such as Australia Square & the Opera House having just been newly completed. Very different city now though, for better and for worse...

@annacarter6559 2 месяца назад

And now a super expensive s-hole, unliveable, murderous traffic, with most homes owned by external investors. Most shopping centres are owned by same including Queen Victoria building

@RGC198 2 месяца назад

Wow! I was living in Sydney when this was made. I was 12 years old at the time and attending primary school.

@SydneyHistory 2 месяца назад

Wow I'm sure you've seen a lot of change in this great city. Thanks for watching.

@tompchromedome Год назад

factory work is honorable work for anyone, The Lima agreement sent these jobs to Asia

@jacobmcnamara7234 2 месяца назад

Now it’s new Shanghai

@Nickclappo 3 месяца назад

Any video that advocates the destruction of heritage is to be questioned.

@SydneyHistory 3 месяца назад

Yes true. Our appreciation for heritage buildings has changed. There was a period where we lost some great architecture. I'm glad we protect them more these days.

@mornnb 2 месяца назад

The biggest thing we have lost since the 60s is this progressive attitude to progress and ambition to be better.

@Vassaga 3 месяца назад

The drone footage from 1964 is amazing

@chalkandcheese1868 2 месяца назад

They were a bit big and a bit loud but yeah amazing.

@SydneyHistory 2 месяца назад

I heard the battery life wasn't as good as these days. 🤣

@karlwillycollins 2 месяца назад

Wow when they demolished the rocks in 5 seconds

@michaelg8465 3 месяца назад

What happened to our booming country? Greed.

@kevysrandomstuff5835 Месяц назад

Worst Designed city of ever been to, Redfern like the poverty of Asia, small over price petty blocks of concrete, Roading is a nightmare, Traffic lights are screwed to hold you up while lanes to tolls remain empty so to push for the use of tolls, plus the poor quality of patches and potholes, Lack of signs so you know what road goes where

@pantsgaming759 2 месяца назад

we have come along way with workers safety thats for sure

@RaveDave871 3 месяца назад

Poncy narrator not surprisingly double-barreled name

@thomasdight1267 3 месяца назад

Sydney is 🤢

@paulgerrard9227 3 месяца назад

The endless list of things Sydney no longer makes. Once Sydney was a long distance meaning self sifficiency was required. . Now its a commute to anywhere in the world within a day.

@woohooboy 3 месяца назад

The narrator is WAY too absorbed in philosophizing that it comes off pretentious and cringy.

@SydneyHistory 3 месяца назад

Thank God it wasn't my voice. 😬

@Cadcare 3 месяца назад

During the transition from pounds, schillings and pence to dollars and cents comes odd phraseology such as "a million and a half in money" Director: Don't hit 'em with the word 'dollar' too soon but slowly coax them into it!"

@SydneyHistory 3 месяца назад

Good pick-up. It didn't occur to me.

@RaveDave871 3 месяца назад

Saying pounds would make film seem dated in only year or two

@moaningpheromones 2 месяца назад

shillings

@victoriab11 2 месяца назад

Glad that The Rocks wasn’t completely replaced, as it mentions in the video 2/3 way through

@aaronbell2955 2 месяца назад

Only because the Builders Labourers Federation imposed greenbans refusing to work on it's demolition. Various areas of Sydney would be a whole lot uglier if it wasn't for the Union.

@johnschannel449 2 месяца назад

THe faces of the people on the street sure has changed

@Tk-ou9ec 2 месяца назад

Went to Sydney just last month! A shit hole now Not impressed

@readinswithtracey Месяц назад

It's horrible!

@MrCites1 2 месяца назад

Now we look like the slums of Calcutta.

@alanpeachey4085 3 месяца назад

The incomprehensible destruction of history in regards to Sydney Australia when we do not heritage list any building from all those who have worked so hard to create that error of fashion now all wait for us in the grave how to destroy your tourism and future income including your culture for your grandchildren all destroyed by this word progress there wasn’t any progress. It went backwards destroying the very aspect of who we are as a culture in this country. Australia it is is anybody, who reads this item? Would you please please write down the name of a person who has written law in this country? Australia? I have.