Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games - Official Olympic Film | Olympic History 

Amazing footage. My grandfather came all the way from Dublin to Melbourne on a boat to see the Olympic Games. He met my grandmother here and never left. If it wasn't for the Olympic Games I would not be alive. I hope Melbourne one day hosts the Olympic Games again.

I live in Melbourne and this is blowing my mind seeing the times my Nanna and pa lived in.

One of the best track and field movies I've ever seen.

Best footage I've seen of my dad carrying the Canadian flag! THANK YOU!

Jesse Owen is called an old man by the narrator. He was in his 40's in 1956. 20 years earlier he was winning gold in Berlin in 1936.

My Dad went to see Betty at the age of 11 and now he is 78. I love this thank you. Can't wait to show my daughter who is 4. When the Brisbane Olympics is on she will be 12. Talk about full circle.

1:29:20 I SAW INDONESIA 🇮🇩 IN A FEW SECOND... So happy, even we are not very important country back then, at least we can participate in Melbourne... ☺

incredibly sharp color, considering this was filmed 60 years ago

27:41 holy smoke

The quality of this film is absolute amazing, it's not often I see other films except movies from this era with this quality.

wow, the video quality is just awesome. i never knew that it was possible in 50's

It’s amazing how they all March in sync during the country parade, it’s so much more casual these days

the quality of this video is phenomenal! and just look at the how much dignity and class ppl had then. all dressed so beautifully and marching to proudly. nowadays they just roam all over whike waving jumping and taking selfies.......

It was great to see the Legendary AL OERTER throw the discus. He was the surprise winner of the discus in 1956, 1960, 1964, and in 1968. There was no greater Olympian than he !!!!!

I've watched all the "Official Olympic Film | Olympic History" from 1956 to 1980, and by FAAAR, THIS IS the BEST one of ALL!! TOTALLY worth watching and VERY educational!!!

at 23 minutes - Bill Neider, the US shot putter - he was the one who brought in the synthetic tracks we're familiar with today, at the '68 Olympics. Great year for Ireland - Ronnie Delaney in the 1500m. Hard to believe that's our last Olympic track gold

The Melbourne Olympics say my grandfather was 16 years old. The color images on this site are better than those recorded in the Tokyo Olympic Games (1964). Thank you very much.

Incredible the renovation of very old images. So much good the film, this event happened in a the completed in the world's history so all politics influence and military is on the games. Congratulations for this great work!

Wow having the olympics in my home state is pretty amazing

The narrator says that USA has 20 times the population of Australia . Now it would be 13-14 times

Everyone praises the innovative 1965 documentary about Tokyo 64' but everything innovative about that documentary is visibly present here already.

my mom just turned 1 and my dad was only months old! lol craaaazy!

My grandpa was at the stadium watching Danielsen break that javelin world record...

Merci infiniment de cette rétrospective des Olympiades de Melbourne 1956 tout en couleur, merci à vous 👍😉

I haven't seen such high-quality video of these games before. Brilillant !!

My Olympian bronze medalist cousin Josh Culbreath shown at 32:15 on the left with the dark schoolboy cap, and running in the 1-2-3 sweep Glenn Davis, Eddie Southern, and Josh Culbreath hurdle relay at 33:43. The first clean sweep of the Olympic Games was won by these hurdlers.

You can't see it from the angle they showed but the torch bearer got absolutely scorched when he lit the cauldron. Stuck his arm too far in.

man, this is crazy! the quality is amazing. Honestly didnt know they had such good quality back in the day

Awesome film, that was a nice watch Olympics looked so different back then.

Love the marathon sequence.

3:45 The Batman diorama on the Bourke Street Coles is hilarious. "Doutigalla" or "Dutigalla" came from Batman mistaking an aboriginal woman's name for the name of their country.

My late old man was six years old the year it was filmed.

25:08 I just realized they already have the score board like this in 1956.

Great fun to watch this. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

I am so glad that the athletes can March in more relaxed nowadays. They can actually have fun walking in and not have to be so ridged.

The MCG is the Mecca of Australian sport. Very historic stadium and every Victorian lets you know about it!

All the grand stands here have been demolished, some replaced twice since 1956, and the MCG ( Melbourne Cricket Ground) complex is even better now as one of the world great stadiums. The open air three tier grandstand was specially built for the games but is gone now. The (British) Commonwealth Games were held here in 2006 representing about 65 nations and 1/3 of humanity.

The tradition of the athletes all running into the stadium together at the closing ceremony started at these Games

Wow! I just like, these old videos.

I can’t believe this is Mcg (Melbourne Cricket Ground) even 60 years later

Worth every second.

I was born that year,10 Feb 56.I would be crawling never mind running.Also have a Olympic 1956 Commerative biscuit tin,

Magnificent Colour photography!

Amazing to watch this and see some things that haven’t changed

@10:00 probably the firmest salute ive ever seen

How is it possible that you missed out the "Blood in the Water match"? It happened that very olympic game and it was one of the most shocking moment of that whole olympic.

I remember my school sports events there in the 70s and the Olympics pool Melbourne the top sports in Australia

What a beautiful film of the Melbourne olimpic games

In the parade of athletes it looks so serious today it’s jumping around like a big party

14:35 Australia won more than "several Gold Medals". Australia win 13 gold and came 3rd in the gold and overall medal count. The USSR came 1st in the gold and overall count and the USA 2nd in the gold and overall medal count. Well done USSR recovering from WW2 11 years earlier.

im a melbournian and my grandmother saw this in person. pretty cool to think about.

Владимир Куц просто красавчик !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5000 10000 олимпийский чемпион

Priceless Olympic History Film.

I'm from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

Check out William Roy Kerslake. Wrestler on the usa team for. 52 56 and 60. He was my 2nd cousin and went on to design the Apollo rocket system for 1960s moonlaunch.

Love the cinematography

What a great track meet! ....Think they'll ever bring the rest of the Olympics to Melbourne?

It's sad that 99.9 parcent of all the people in the stadium have all died

1:07:08 Gyarmati Olga gold medalist of 1948 London Olymics. The original coat of arms on her top. I wish this film had some footage of the famous waterpolo match between Hungary and USSR

26:30 Elegante ADHEMAR FERREIRA DA SILVA vence no salto triplo glória do esporte brasileiro

Amazing, excellent quality.

The quality of the film is really amazing - but it must be remastered in the last few years.

Wow! I saw all of this, I never knew that a film was made.

2:35 Middle Park were I live between the lake and the bay. There is my house on the extreme right of shot.

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very polished production; but in late Nov., these 'summer' Olympics were getting pretty close to winter for many - funny to see Christmas decorations in an Olympics setting

I like how the narrator said “We may not see this place again” u never know they might host the games again soon

14:48 best speech ever

A few factual mistakes but still a great high quality colour film that I did not know even existed until You Tube was invented. I dont remember the Olympics as I was only 4 years old then even though I am from Melbourne then and still am. However the best Olympic film is Lena Riefenstahl 1936 "Olympia " in black and white and also on You Tube in 2 X 90 minute parts.

A stunning impression of a world forever lost: where there appears to be no such thing as Olympic 'security' beyond a few sailors and cops guiding people to seats, where athletes debarked busses and mixed into what was essentially a pre-opening garden party, where television would begin its slow (but not that slow!) remaking of the games in a complex morphology and syntax of image systems, and where the only overt political text was the bloody water polo semi-final between Hungary and the Soviet Union. Now we have Paris, strange and distant and delirious, with Plans A, B AND C for the opening ceremonies in case of trouble and most of us ever poised with a characteristic vigilance: what scandal, what unexpected thing, what terrible known unknown, what sensation awaits?

Fascinating colour footage. These Games would have been largely invisible to most of the world - satellite TV hadn't even been invented, meaning people around the world would have had to rely on radio commentary or coverage in the newspapers.

This video is from the Olympics of 1956 ? The video's quality unbelievably clear !!

I enjoyed it but it only covered track and field out of over 16 sports contested that year. No swimming, weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, shooting, boxing, basketball, etc, etc. Never the less, it is enjoyable and nice to watch film of O'brian and Oerter win their events.

24:59 #2 Hogan clearly came 2nd and was over the line before #54 Baker crossed shortly afterwards (in the next frame).

A time when Olympics was for the amature. Now with high technology and stuff it's all changed

Marlene Ahrens Ostertag, de esos tantos alemanes que nacieron en Chile. Lanzadora de javalina y luego equitadora. Estando ya casada y con hijos comenzó a lanzar javalina. Jugaba a entrenar una hora al día, si hubiera entrenado como corresponde habria sido campeona del mundo. En su quinto lanzamiento hizo 50,38 m. Fue su mejor marca y la única chilena con una medalla olímpica. Ese record sudamericano duró hasta 1976 cuan do Marlene Dos Santos se lo batió.

Какая красивая история! В те добрые времена спорт был - мир!

nice to see that this is in color

13:05 Indonesia

Omg he said Melbourne wrong!

3:00 'Melbourne is hardly more than a provincial capital' - well, yes, as anyone from Sydney will tell you.

🇮🇩 Satu-satunya partisipasi timnas sepak bola Indonesia di kancah Olimpiade terjadi pada Olimpiade Melbourne (Australia) tahun 1956. Indonesia langsung lolos ke babak perempat final setelah Taiwan mengundurkan diri di babak kualifikasi. Saat itu Indonesia diperkuat Andi Ramang, legenda Indonesia yang diakui FIFA. Juga diperkuat kiper sekaligus kapten tim bernama Maulwi Saelan. Pasca memperkuat timnas, Maulwi Saelan ditunjuk sebagai ajudan pribadi Presiden Soekarno. Kiprah timnas sepak bola Indonesia di Olimpiade Melbourne 1956 langsung kandas di babak perempat final setelah takluk dari tim raksasa Uni Soviet yang diperkuat kiper legendaris, Lev Yashin. Selama pagelaran Olimpiade tersebut, Indonesia hanya bermain sebanyak dua kali melawan Uni Soviet. Pada pertandingan pertama, kedua tim bermain imbang 0-0. Saat itu belum ada aturan penalti sehingga pertandingan harus diulang. Sayangnya pada laga ulangan melawan Uni Soviet, Indonesia harus bertekuk lutut 4 gol tanpa balas. Timnas sepak bola Uni Soviet sendiri pada akhirnya berhasil merengkuh medali emas Olimpiade Melbourne 1956 setelah mengalahkan Yugoslavia dengan skor 1-0 di final. Ini juga menjadi medali emas Olimpiade pertama Uni Soviet dalam cabang sepak bola dan baru mereka peroleh lagi 32 tahun kemudian (Olimpiade Seoul 1988).

Now 4.8 million only 60 years later. Crazy

minute 13.55 at the middle is my Father Datuk Sium Diau

Alain Mimoun, le personnage principal du film pour l’éternité 🥹

For those wondering why Sydney 2000 was such a good games, the reason is simple: Sydney wanted to one-up Melbourne.

I feel so weird watching this for some reason

Such a disgrace that swimming was not included in this pro US film as it was the start of Australia's golden era in the pool

13:24, those Japanese really had some balls to do that only 11 years after WWII.....It may be unintentional to them, but that kind of salute is really easy to misunderstand. Even the commentary was speechless at that time......lololol

smallest state? we really did forget about Tassie. and it's Melbin not Melborn

My sister had a teacup which was an heirloom saying xvi olympiad melbourne 1956. She wanted to get rid of it but i said ill have it :)

For years we were told that the swimming had poor films; not so.

Fantastic film, amazing quality. Unfortunately, the narrator calls Ballarat "Hallarat" - lol.

Melbourne 1956, Sydney 2000, Brisbane 2032. OK, Adelaide and Perth, when you next?

The way the describe the Olympics is like we are all school children on field day

10:00 that's how you salute

Dear Sir , Are available the video clips of India vs Australia, India vs Yugslovia , India vs Bulgeria football matches of Melbourne 1956 olympic Games ?

This film really show its age

The 1956 Melbourne Olympics was the first to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere and as well to take place outside Europe and the United States. The year television introduced in Australia.

51:10 for the boxing fans.