From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the Commonwealth Film Unit 1967. Directed by James Jeffrey. A study of the people living and working in the Pittwater area 25 miles north of Sydney.
Thank you for brightening up my day with yet another video of time gone by. A time where there was just enough technology to make life serene and comfortable. Unlike today where too much technology is disrupting our work life balance and invades our personal lives. Is it any wonder why everything looked so much better and everyone seemed so much happier then! So happy to watch this yet sad because life as it was will never be again! 😔
Takes me back to my childhood growing up on the river, I worked the slipways as a teenager and all this vision is just a memory for me great to see it again
Perfect living conditions for those choosing the commuter lifestyle, with good public transport and a relatively small population. Although living far away in West Australia at that time, we had similar riverside locations in Perth and Fremantle suburbs. At the time it all seemed perfectly normal and pleasant 😊. Now looking back at this film, it does seem like Paradise, but we didn't know it, although it was much appreciated by us Pommy Migrants who had arrived from war-torn conditions and rather grim climates.
These government films were often filmed a few years before the final edited result was released and given a more modern date. Life in Melbourne from the NFSA is one I detailed issues like currency.
see how relaxed people were then ? they didnt have to keep looking over their shoulders for the thieving police , waiting to steal from them at gunpoint ! they knew they were doing no harm ,where as now you are always hoping you are not breaking acts and statutes !
We are scanning as much as we can to higher quality formats but with a collection numbering in the millions (film, TV, Audio and ephemera) it's a big and pretty slow job. There is a playlist of some of our HD content uploaded here though: ru-vid.com/group/PLYjU0Xph-Gj7nutLAwy1S5wyzznq94pug. Brief as it is. Please keep watching.
@High Beyond Exactly why Australia should have an inheritance or estate tax. Crazy that property is tax free during life and beyond into future creating generational divide for doing nothing . Why is fair that a person is severely advantaged or disadvantaged because of what their parents or grandparents did or did not do in the past ..?
@High Beyond People back then worked hard, but they also had secure employment (not precarity or 'the gig economy') and housing that didn't double in cost in a decade - a couple of examples of good fortune that did indeed 'fall from the sky'. And even then, if you'd been living in somewhere like Mt Druitt, this lifestyle would have looked like another world.