And die of smallpox, any cut or wound, polio? Walk 10kms to work for minimum wage and come home to a dimly lit by gas house and then go outside if I needed the toilet? Hell no but amazing work on the video! Also shows us what an insane level of advancements have been made in 100 years. I think the richest person alive in the 1930s would give it all up for what we have today.
No way , it would have been so harsh relating to everything The sexism racism ect woman had no right to live as a normal person/man The societal attitudes were stifling along with the hideous religious ones God forbid if you were gay or got pregnant outside of marriage It definitely wouldn’t have worked out for me if I lived in that time , as it was with me in the 1960s as a kid refusing to wear a top in summer because the boys didn’t have to and being sent home to put a top on I was born a free thinker so it was difficult for me to reform at all , let alone live back then 😂 I would have been jailed or sent to insane asylum for constantly bucking the systems 😂
Melburnians were smart when it came to public transport: never got rid of their city wide tram system you see here which is still hale and hearty in 2023.
@@thevannmann That's peak speeds which is not relevant. Trams being Electric can accelerate much quicker and you realy feel with some tram drivers. Acceleration response able to cover ground in a given amount of time is way more important than top speed in city traffic. Soo what you claim is better is not worth it.
@@Neojhun Neither can accelerate very fast because people would just get wrecked. Bus Carries more and is faster. Trams are cute. It's just some fun old feature we keep for no real reason.
This is the Melbourne of my maternal grandparents. My mother would’ve been a toddler when this was filmed. They lived in Williams Road in Hawksburn, only a stone’s throw from The Botanical Gardens. It is fun to imagine them on a tram or in a car, or being one of the picnickers. I wonder if this came up in my feed due to Google Calendar having an event at The Shrine of Remembrance listed for me today? Thank you for your work, especially on the sound design. It was very evocative. 😊
A 99% white Australia that was homogenous, safe and Peaceful. It only took whites 100 years to create a paradise on earth on a barren wasteland across the globe from England
Evocative for me too... this would have been the time of my paternal grandparents, my father would have been in his early teens around then. His family ran a chemist just down from the Royal Exhibition Building at the time this was filmed, who knows, they could easily be in this film somewhere!
0:0:06 Looking over Flinders St station area (now Federation Square) to the Boatsheds on the Yarra River, looking from St Paul's Cathedral over Princes Bridge and then down St Kilda Rd to the Shrine of Rememberance outbound from the CBD 0:0:30 Looks like St Kilda Rd, heading into the city 0:1:05 View over Princes Bridge to the CBD, northwards from Southbank 0:1:27 Could be looking down Swanston St, unsure, as I do not think the tower is the Manchester Unity Building, perhaps looking down Collins St, the 'Paris' end 0:1:42 Perhaps Elizabeth Street - note the sign on the building "Spencer Street Studio". Could be Bourke St, going west up the hill? 0:1:49 Looking SW down Swanston St towards Collins St, with the Melbourne Town Hall on the left 0:1:58 Looking north across Parliament House, Spring St, then some detail shots of Parliament House 0:2:36 Hotel Windsor 0:2:40 Royal Exhibition Building, Rathdown St, from Carlton Gardens 0:3:01 The Victorian State Library, Swanston St 0:3:30 Ormond College, Melbourne University 0:3:39 Wilson Hall, which has since burnt down in 1952 and been replaced, part of Melbourne University, and where I had a couple of my graduating ceremonies (in the new building). facebook.com/unimelb/videos/the-history-of-wilson-hall/713042945815862/ 0:3:48 Newman College, Melbourne University 0:3:57 Likely to be Alexandra or Fitzroy Gardens, Perhaps the Royal Botanic Gardens 0:5:29 Headed west along the south side of the Yarra River (in front of the boat sheds), looking towards the CBD, in particular Flinders St Station and St Pauls Cathedral. The site on the north side of the Yarra is now Federation Square (behind the palms) 0:6:08 Princes Bridge (St Kilda Rd) from what is now known as Birrarung Marr 0:6:16 The Royal Botanic Gardens 0:7:45 Temple of the Winds, Royal Botanic Gardens 0:8:06 More Royal Botanic Gardens 0:9:32 Best guess is St Kilda Rd again, moving southward 0:9:45 More of St Kilda Rd or Alexandra Ave. Looks to be the infamous "Tan" running track 0:10:23 Looks to be Alexandra Ave moving northward thanks to the direction of the sun, again the "Tan" track: maps.app.goo.gl/N2w1mcTVA1kE7nxK6 All of these apart from Wilson Hall are still viewable on Google Maps
Great work! The one you're unsure of 1.42 looks like the Regent Theatre in the foreground, so it would be Collins Street going up the hill from Swanston to Russell.
Ballarat paid for the opulence of Melbourne at the time. Don't forget this is the height of the Great Depression and there's a lot of suffering here despite the hustle. We're only a handful of years before all out world conflict too. The technological transition from horse to car would have been fascinating to watch. When I see these buildings and parks I feel inspired. It is truly a great city. So much here is eerily familiar.
Ballarat's boom times from gold were long gone by this time. Melbourne had boomed and grown as a centre for many industries. By 1901 it was the largest population in Australia and remained the seat for Federal Parliament until 1928. Yes, the Great Depression was hammering Melbourne, but it hit all of Australia, both cities and the bush very hard.
Cities aren't museums, they naturally grow and change. If anything developers have been limited in what they build with super restrictive zoning and planning laws.
It was in a lot better condition than the Maribyrnong at this point in time. By the 1930's, the Maribyrnong stank so bad from decades of rotting carcasses being tipped into the river from the Kensington abbatoirs that the city's rowing regatta was cancelled and moved to the Yarra, to approximately where Punt Road Bridge is today.
This is brilliant. Thank you so much for posting. My parents would have been little kids back then, and my dad grew up not far from the Botanical Gardens. I recall him telling me about horses being ridden around the Tan in his childhood. So interesting to see a snippet of what his world was like as a young child.
The odd thing is almost ALL of those sites are still there today and just as lovely. Yes, it’s a much bigger city but again, they are all STILL HERE if you open you eyes.
I was going to say the same, it's amazing how many of those beautiful buildings are still there, and the parks too. Melbourne has flaws like any city but it's still very beautiful in many places
I love it, absolutely Brilliant. Please take me back to quieter times. The restoration work on the footage is pure genius. The added sound design is Perfect. I just sat and watched for a glimpse of my Dad who was 5. Hey, you never know!!. Whoever did this, Thank you! True Artistry in your work.
I am watching this while having a cup of coffee sitting across the road from St. Pauls cathedral and thinking so much of melbourne still looks the same but has changed so much. This was also filmed before any of my grandparents moved to Melbourne. My paternal grandmother was the first to move to Melbourne, and that was 1940.
I was living in Albert Street East Brunswick 1955 and saw the Olympic games in 1956 in a shop window in Sydney Road. I think he was Latvian and won the 10,000 meters gold medal for the USSR.
Writing as a British person, it is amazing to think that the population of the greater Melbourne area had just reached the 1 million mark in 1931, whereas it is now over 5 million, just over 90 years later. Melbourne looked so much like a British city back then, although the plants in the Botanic Gardens wouldn't all necessarily survive a harsh British winter! I loved the soundtrack of the car engines in the opening sequences!
Don't think it looked like a British city. British cities have cobble stone roads, and buildings of a certain time/height. Whereas Melbourne at this point was already developing a skyline more akin to those of American coastal cities and certainly the layout was more modern based as it were in the U.S. However it is very crazy how much the population has grown and it is expected to double to over 10 million by 2070 and has already overtaken Sydney as Australia's most populated city.
@@Mambojambo157 Gold Rush of mid 1800's meant a real growth spurt in the decade or two after that. If those that came to regional areas from overseas did not make it rich in goldfields which would have been most, many later would settle in the city of Melbourne after letting go of the gold riches dream just to find work and a roof over their head. Would have been fascinating to be born in 1840's and live a hundred years and see how much had changed in your own lifetime.
@@Mambojambo157 You make 100 years (1885 - 1935) seem like it isn't a huge amount of time. It is. For example, we're still a decade away from hitting 100 years since the date of this video...
Even allowing for colour grading and film footage quality, you can see how clear the sky is compared to the Los Angeles smoggy haze that sits permanently over the city today. The only time that haze bubble has disappeared from the Melbourne city skyline in the past three decades was during the first COVID lockdown. Looking toward the city from the top end of Footscray Road, you could clearly see the skyline of city buildings from 7 kms away.
Nass, your colorization has gotten so good it looks like it was filmed in color!!! Thank you so much for all of your hard work. Really looking forward to seeing more of your wonderful videos. JoAnn
So much more peaceful then today and ur color work man, it looks like it was almost as it was filmed like this. Truly amazing, btw not just saying that, i really think it is.
@@ashleyden Well what do u see or saw in the video? Depressed people trying to survive? or just everyday people walking by and driving by, meaning their own business, doint their everyday whatever? I think ill stand by what ive said or typed, its peaceful and way more so that even today life. Depression or not. WW2 impending or not. Everyday people has so much more to worry about then just that. Ill bet u ddint even saw the video, right? If not id suggest to just go through it all, see for urself. Also if u did id suggest u visit an eye doctor first just optometrist so he she will make sure u have good eyesight so u can actually see whats in the video. The background whats happening and what will happen in this context doesnt matter one bit. If u watch the video u dont think about it like hey look at those poor people how fvcked they are. Or look little Billy will be soon dead in the upcomming WW2. No u see just everyday people as ive said doing everyday stuff and the whole thing looks peaceful. But i guess i can write anything u wont read or listen to reason. So i wont prolong this and say Bye.
Authentic Melbourne....warm...friendly....stylish.... my Grandmother would have been in her late teens in this video....what a gem thankyou.. Melbourne today feels sterile, unfriendly and commercialised to within an inch of its glorious former self.....total loss of the character that IS/WAS Melbourne..... The slow decay of time
Your colorization work is terrific! What a beautiful city - as another commentator has already said, it has the air of the European cities of the time. Thank you for sharing. ✨💖✨
Melbourne is a big thriving city today of 5 million - many of these buildings shown are restored and treasured heritage buildings. The trees are even bigger and botanic parks and gardens shown are still beautiful despite the negative Nancys here. We are getting better at greening our city with native origin plants too. So much more to do and explore these days. Come visit ! ☕️🥐🥮🍱🍝🍲🏙️🌆🌃
Well said. So many negative comments about modern Melbourne, but most of these beautiful buildings and parks still exist, blended with some great modern additions. The problem is that they're often now surrounded by noisy and ugly bumper to bumper traffic due to our failure to expand our trains and trams to support a 5x population increase.
Beautiful at that time. Love the free style driving. Extensive footage of buildings and other civic works. Would have been nice to have a few minutes of the people who lived in Melbs at that time.
@@onlymelbourne2842 Are you serious? like...actually serious? You think Melbourne was this Garden of Eden and then one guy destroyed everything? You sound like a child.
It amazes me the beautiful buildings then compared to the ugly buildings now and they didnt have all the equipment we do now. People were much more skilled then too. The gardens, just beautiful.
These videos are beautifully depressing. Thank you. I love them All. And it feels like heaven to watch. Then you wake up to reality your living in 2023 I wished I had been born in 1930 that would of been the PERFECT life. God what on earth were you thinking? 🤕If only we could go back and CHOOSE when we were born.... I wouldn't be here now.
My grandad was born in 1895 and had to fight in WWI. My dad was born in 1926 and had to fight in WWII. I was born in 1956 and didn't have to go to war. I'm blessed.
Lol you’re kidding aren’t you?? World War II came soon after and there was still plenty of diseases you could die from that today you can easily treat. Sure it was a simpler time and some had it good but it was still very flawed. Not saying today isn’t very flawed in other ways but I bet if it were possible to travel back in time and live in the early to mid 20th Century it wouldn’t be an easy adjustment and you’d soon regret it!
had to obey your husband or expect a beating. no birth control , children getting sick and or being abused at school , war , depression i mean not really that great in a lot of ways
Absolutely Fascinating thanks for posting, and to think just a few years later in WW2 some of those young men in the film would lose their lives to the Japanese Military.. 🇦🇺
As a Victorian, all I can say is I love the traffic density back in the day! I've lived in Tasmania for 25yrs now, I rarely return to Victoria, it overwhelms me. The trams were always green I think 🤔 and the T Models were always black, my grandmother moved from rural Victoria to Nth Melbourne around 1915. The gentry riding their horses around the botanical gardens is a shock! Foxes and rabbits bought over for their enjoyment have caused mayhem.
I was raised in the UK, but have spent the past forty years living in the US. When I see these old movies, it makes me realize how simple life was in the past. That’s not to say it was paradise but less complicated compared to today.
The lake in Fitzroy Gardens looks EXACTLY the same, I swear, it feels like even the plants have never died or been replanted, as if it's the same damn plants xD Arts Centre area looks much nicer without the fake Eiffel Tower or the NGV's big cardboard box aesthetic.
@@ACDZ123 and ignorant racism for your attitude? City planning and migration have very little to do with each other. My mum was born in 33 and I remember much of this but by the 60s when I was born they had torn down so much of the older buildings and put in concrete or brick monstrosities. This was due to post-depression and post-ww2 supply constraints and a new desire for "modernism" which looks ugly to us now. All that had essentially nothing to do with immigration. You are swallowing too much Sky News.
look at those super clean streets, just like New York or any Western city at the time, and we claim our cities today are better.....technology wise yes but as a society............no
How healthy the trees and plants used to look back then. Huge trees and brighter sunlight. Now sadly all we have is trees all around us discoloured and dying and pollution slowly killing us all. How nice it would have been living in those times :(
The city is actually much cleaner today with cleaner air than back then. Facts. The AI colours this footage to make us feel nostalgic but it isn't realistic. It is very cool though.
The thing about lot of these video, as a modern person I can still roughly know where the video was taken, Melbourne did a lot of good work keeping a fair chunk of the old buildings.
Seeing comments how things since the 30s has changed for the worse in Melbourne is true to some extent but one thing that's still awesome and hasn't changed much going by this footage is the botanical Gardens
Well it was called Marvelous Melbourne for a reason. Original filmmakers must have been Freemasons no sign of St Patricks. Serendipitously most of the public gardens remain intact and a number of the significant buildings survive. If you time it right some of the magic still remains but get up very early.
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing this. It’s lovely to see how our city would have looked then. Far better than what it looks now full of rubbish, graffiti, signage and grunge.
Not all bad. Lanes have become trendy. National Gallery precinct. South bank, Bourke Street mall, museum in Nicholson Street, StateLibrary is now beautiful City loop, Docklands cleaned up wasteland etc, etc,
Great video, thanks. This comment was deleted somehow: If one reads the financial history of Melbourne it is clear that nobody returned with any fortune from the goldfields except the people who made candles and mining equipment. It is why Eureka happened, the Gov wanted pre-paid gold-mining licenses when the diggers were broke. The idea that the gold rush paid for more than a massage is absurd and the myth should be put to rest as there is no evidence to corroborate the claim in any historical document. The thousands of beautiful, ornate and long-lasting stone structures we attribute to the gold rush were here long before Cook claimed the place. Even the "war memorial" in Melbourne has no photographs of its construction by the Lodge Brothers, still in business but has no photos except the brick pillars built to cover the reflection pool that was originally there. Phony history.
Would You like to live back in the 1930s??
No. But I respect what the people of that time lived through and made life more comfortable for those of us born much later.
And die of smallpox, any cut or wound, polio? Walk 10kms to work for minimum wage and come home to a dimly lit by gas house and then go outside if I needed the toilet? Hell no but amazing work on the video! Also shows us what an insane level of advancements have been made in 100 years. I think the richest person alive in the 1930s would give it all up for what we have today.
for a holiday maybe, not to live. I'd probably only travel back to the 60s or 70s
No. But I’d like to have grabbed a bag full of 1930 Penny’s!
No way , it would have been so harsh relating to everything
The sexism racism ect woman had no right to live as a normal person/man
The societal attitudes were stifling along with the hideous religious ones
God forbid if you were gay or got pregnant outside of marriage
It definitely wouldn’t have worked out for me if I lived in that time , as it was with me in the 1960s as a kid refusing to wear a top in summer because the boys didn’t have to and being sent home to put a top on
I was born a free thinker so it was difficult for me to reform at all , let alone live back then 😂
I would have been jailed or sent to insane asylum for constantly bucking the systems 😂
Melburnians were smart when it came to public transport: never got rid of their city wide tram system you see here which is still hale and hearty in 2023.
They dumb with most everything else tho. Probably why the state can't pay its bills
Trams move at 16 km/h, slower than buses 😂
@@thevannmannSo what?
@@thevannmann That's peak speeds which is not relevant. Trams being Electric can accelerate much quicker and you realy feel with some tram drivers. Acceleration response able to cover ground in a given amount of time is way more important than top speed in city traffic. Soo what you claim is better is not worth it.
@@Neojhun Neither can accelerate very fast because people would just get wrecked.
Bus Carries more and is faster.
Trams are cute. It's just some fun old feature we keep for no real reason.
My dad, born in 1926, would have absolutely loved to view this video.
Hi there to you. My Dad also born on 11/07/26 would have loved it too. I lost him in 2017. Miss him every day. God Bless. Your comment was lovely.
This is the Melbourne of my maternal grandparents. My mother would’ve been a toddler when this was filmed. They lived in Williams Road in Hawksburn, only a stone’s throw from The Botanical Gardens. It is fun to imagine them on a tram or in a car, or being one of the picnickers. I wonder if this came up in my feed due to Google Calendar having an event at The Shrine of Remembrance listed for me today? Thank you for your work, especially on the sound design. It was very evocative. 😊
A 99% white Australia that was homogenous, safe and Peaceful. It only took whites 100 years to create a paradise on earth on a barren wasteland across the globe from England
Evocative for me too... this would have been the time of my paternal grandparents, my father would have been in his early teens around then. His family ran a chemist just down from the Royal Exhibition Building at the time this was filmed, who knows, they could easily be in this film somewhere!
@@DodderingOldMan Wonderful! It must be touching a lot of people this way.
0:0:06 Looking over Flinders St station area (now Federation Square) to the Boatsheds on the Yarra River, looking from St Paul's Cathedral over Princes Bridge and then down St Kilda Rd to the Shrine of Rememberance outbound from the CBD
0:0:30 Looks like St Kilda Rd, heading into the city
0:1:05 View over Princes Bridge to the CBD, northwards from Southbank
0:1:27 Could be looking down Swanston St, unsure, as I do not think the tower is the Manchester Unity Building, perhaps looking down Collins St, the 'Paris' end
0:1:42 Perhaps Elizabeth Street - note the sign on the building "Spencer Street Studio". Could be Bourke St, going west up the hill?
0:1:49 Looking SW down Swanston St towards Collins St, with the Melbourne Town Hall on the left
0:1:58 Looking north across Parliament House, Spring St, then some detail shots of Parliament House
0:2:36 Hotel Windsor
0:2:40 Royal Exhibition Building, Rathdown St, from Carlton Gardens
0:3:01 The Victorian State Library, Swanston St
0:3:30 Ormond College, Melbourne University
0:3:39 Wilson Hall, which has since burnt down in 1952 and been replaced, part of Melbourne University, and where I had a couple of my graduating ceremonies (in the new building). facebook.com/unimelb/videos/the-history-of-wilson-hall/713042945815862/
0:3:48 Newman College, Melbourne University
0:3:57 Likely to be Alexandra or Fitzroy Gardens, Perhaps the Royal Botanic Gardens
0:5:29 Headed west along the south side of the Yarra River (in front of the boat sheds), looking towards the CBD, in particular Flinders St Station and St Pauls Cathedral. The site on the north side of the Yarra is now Federation Square (behind the palms)
0:6:08 Princes Bridge (St Kilda Rd) from what is now known as Birrarung Marr
0:6:16 The Royal Botanic Gardens
0:7:45 Temple of the Winds, Royal Botanic Gardens
0:8:06 More Royal Botanic Gardens
0:9:32 Best guess is St Kilda Rd again, moving southward
0:9:45 More of St Kilda Rd or Alexandra Ave. Looks to be the infamous "Tan" running track
0:10:23 Looks to be Alexandra Ave moving northward thanks to the direction of the sun, again the "Tan" track: maps.app.goo.gl/N2w1mcTVA1kE7nxK6
All of these apart from Wilson Hall are still viewable on Google Maps
Great work! The one you're unsure of 1.42 looks like the Regent Theatre in the foreground, so it would be Collins Street going up the hill from Swanston to Russell.
thanks so much!
Ballarat paid for the opulence of Melbourne at the time. Don't forget this is the height of the Great Depression and there's a lot of suffering here despite the hustle. We're only a handful of years before all out world conflict too. The technological transition from horse to car would have been fascinating to watch. When I see these buildings and parks I feel inspired. It is truly a great city. So much here is eerily familiar.
Beautiful as it is, if this footage had been taken in the slums of inner city ,Fitzroy or Carlton , it would have painted a different picture indeed.
Ballarat's boom times from gold were long gone by this time. Melbourne had boomed and grown as a centre for many industries. By 1901 it was the largest population in Australia and remained the seat for Federal Parliament until 1928. Yes, the Great Depression was hammering Melbourne, but it hit all of Australia, both cities and the bush very hard.
@@petesig93 As I understand it, the "low hanging fruit" among the gold had run out by the mid 1870s ?
That’s wrong. Ballarat is was a much smaller goldfield than Bendigo by orders of magnitude.
All of the "opulent" buildings were constructed decades before the Great Depression.
Wow before we demolished half of the beutiful buildings allowed the developers to run wild with the ugly modern skyscrapers!
Cities aren't museums, they naturally grow and change. If anything developers have been limited in what they build with super restrictive zoning and planning laws.
Most of the beautiful (not beutiful) buildings in this video are still there. I was actually marvelling at how little has changed at street level.
Developers would ban this video if they had half a chance.
Watching this from Melbourne in 2023 is surreal! So different, yet familiar too.
So pretty back then. Modern Melbourne is a soulless excrement.
I too was noticing how very familiar it seemed.
@@TemplarX2 Nah Modern Melbourne very much has it's own thing going on right now. Far from soulless.
@@Neojhun Like what? Expensive building of poor build quality, inflation, bogans and drug addicts?
The Yarra River looks so clean, understand there's probably slightly higher saturation added to the footage, but wow.
It was in a lot better condition than the Maribyrnong at this point in time. By the 1930's, the Maribyrnong stank so bad from decades of rotting carcasses being tipped into the river from the Kensington abbatoirs that the city's rowing regatta was cancelled and moved to the Yarra, to approximately where Punt Road Bridge is today.
This is brilliant. Thank you so much for posting. My parents would have been little kids back then, and my dad grew up not far from the Botanical Gardens. I recall him telling me about horses being ridden around the Tan in his childhood. So interesting to see a snippet of what his world was like as a young child.
Thx!
The odd thing is almost ALL of those sites are still there today and just as lovely. Yes, it’s a much bigger city but again, they are all STILL HERE if you open you eyes.
Maybe its hard to see them under the shadows of all the monstrous high rises
I was going to say the same, it's amazing how many of those beautiful buildings are still there, and the parks too. Melbourne has flaws like any city but it's still very beautiful in many places
Yes Carlton gardens, botanical gardens, bridges above the Yarra, the church near flinders❤
I love it, absolutely Brilliant. Please take me back to quieter times. The restoration work on the footage is pure genius. The added sound design is Perfect. I just sat and watched for a glimpse of my Dad who was 5. Hey, you never know!!. Whoever did this, Thank you! True Artistry in your work.
I am watching this while having a cup of coffee sitting across the road from St. Pauls cathedral and thinking so much of melbourne still looks the same but has changed so much. This was also filmed before any of my grandparents moved to Melbourne. My paternal grandmother was the first to move to Melbourne, and that was 1940.
Looked like a beautiful European city back then. Very different from today.
Most if not all the buildings shown are still there.. just new large towers inbetween
@@crankCINEMAthose large towers in the modern style rob a city of its unique character
Yes, Australia didn't get a skyscraper until the 50s, our cities were very flat and European looking until then.
Melbourne had the tallest building in the world in 1889. Cnr of Elizabeth and Flinders Lane until it was demolished in 1975.@@greathornedowl1783
Trams, cars and dress have changed slightly with more tall buildings today. Otherwise it is still the same
I was living in Albert Street East Brunswick 1955 and saw the Olympic games in 1956 in a shop window in Sydney Road. I think he was Latvian and won the 10,000 meters gold medal for the USSR.
Was the Yarra ever as blue as it is here in this video?
My father grew up at 71 Albert St. My grandfather lived there until his death in 1979.
@@rheel6747 no. This footage is coloured by AI.
@@joythought What colour was the Yarra when you saw it in the 1950's?
What a beautiful film of Australia! The colors are just gorgeous.
Writing as a British person, it is amazing to think that the population of the greater Melbourne area had just reached the 1 million mark in 1931, whereas it is now over 5 million, just over 90 years later. Melbourne looked so much like a British city back then, although the plants in the Botanic Gardens wouldn't all necessarily survive a harsh British winter! I loved the soundtrack of the car engines in the opening sequences!
Don't think it looked like a British city. British cities have cobble stone roads, and buildings of a certain time/height. Whereas Melbourne at this point was already developing a skyline more akin to those of American coastal cities and certainly the layout was more modern based as it were in the U.S. However it is very crazy how much the population has grown and it is expected to double to over 10 million by 2070 and has already overtaken Sydney as Australia's most populated city.
More amazing to me that they built all that within 100 years to 1930.
@@Mambojambo157 Gold Rush of mid 1800's meant a real growth spurt in the decade or two after that. If those that came to regional areas from overseas did not make it rich in goldfields which would have been most, many later would settle in the city of Melbourne after letting go of the gold riches dream just to find work and a roof over their head. Would have been fascinating to be born in 1840's and live a hundred years and see how much had changed in your own lifetime.
Half of them are London plane trees. 😂
@@Mambojambo157 You make 100 years (1885 - 1935) seem like it isn't a huge amount of time. It is. For example, we're still a decade away from hitting 100 years since the date of this video...
Thank you Nick for putting Jessie’s interview in the video. That guy has some really good points and is able to articulate them well.
It certainly looks better than what it is today
You can thank the car-centric urban planning for wrecking the old neighborhoods.
@@nyb2.027You can thank cultural diversity and mass immigration.
@@nyb2.027 nah, it's sally crapp
It hardly even looks Australian anymore!
@@OZnationalist that because its an asian city now not an australian city
Beautiful work, thank you for sharing. All the best.
thank you
Even allowing for colour grading and film footage quality, you can see how clear the sky is compared to the Los Angeles smoggy haze that sits permanently over the city today.
The only time that haze bubble has disappeared from the Melbourne city skyline in the past three decades was during the first COVID lockdown. Looking toward the city from the top end of Footscray Road, you could clearly see the skyline of city buildings from 7 kms away.
Fantastic. So many recognizable places that are still there today.
Priceless footage! Thank you for your hard work... 😲
Whatever you did to present this, it's really just fantastic!
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Nass, your colorization has gotten so good it looks like it was filmed in color!!! Thank you so much for all of your hard work. Really looking forward to seeing more of your wonderful videos. JoAnn
Thank you so much
So much more peaceful then today and ur color work man, it looks like it was almost as it was filmed like this. Truly amazing, btw not just saying that, i really think it is.
thank you ;)
i don’t think the impending war was very peaceful
This was during the great depression and 2 worlds wars were very near in the future how exactly was it so much more peaceful?
@@ashleyden Well what do u see or saw in the video? Depressed people trying to survive? or just everyday people walking by and driving by, meaning their own business, doint their everyday whatever?
I think ill stand by what ive said or typed, its peaceful and way more so that even today life. Depression or not. WW2 impending or not. Everyday people has so much more to worry about then just that. Ill bet u ddint even saw the video, right?
If not id suggest to just go through it all, see for urself. Also if u did id suggest u visit an eye doctor first just optometrist so he she will make sure u have good eyesight so u can actually see whats in the video.
The background whats happening and what will happen in this context doesnt matter one bit. If u watch the video u dont think about it like hey look at those poor people how fvcked they are. Or look little Billy will be soon dead in the upcomming WW2. No u see just everyday people as ive said doing everyday stuff and the whole thing looks peaceful.
But i guess i can write anything u wont read or listen to reason. So i wont prolong this and say Bye.
@@ashleyden Between the World Wars you mean.
Thank you so much for this video. It is very enjoyable to watch.
Thank you for making these video's.
Thank you so much
What a different World! Everything is changing little by little,u fortunately no for good! Thanks for Al those memories with wonderful images!👏👏👏
Thank you so much
Authentic Melbourne....warm...friendly....stylish....
my Grandmother would have been in her late teens in this video....what a gem thankyou..
Melbourne today feels sterile, unfriendly and commercialised to within an inch of its glorious former self.....total loss of the character that IS/WAS Melbourne.....
The slow decay of time
Your colorization work is terrific!
What a beautiful city - as another commentator has already said, it has the air of the European cities of the time.
Thank you for sharing. ✨💖✨
Thank you
Incredible. What will the next hundred years show of Melbourne. Can only imagine.
Melbourne is a big thriving city today of 5 million - many of these buildings shown are restored and treasured heritage buildings. The trees are even bigger and botanic parks and gardens shown are still beautiful despite the negative Nancys here. We are getting better at greening our city with native origin plants too. So much more to do and explore these days. Come visit ! ☕️🥐🥮🍱🍝🍲🏙️🌆🌃
Well said. So many negative comments about modern Melbourne, but most of these beautiful buildings and parks still exist, blended with some great modern additions. The problem is that they're often now surrounded by noisy and ugly bumper to bumper traffic due to our failure to expand our trains and trams to support a 5x population increase.
Beautiful at that time. Love the free style driving. Extensive footage of buildings and other civic works. Would have been nice to have a few minutes of the people who lived in Melbs at that time.
Quite good, gives a feel for how my home town was 30 years before I was born…
Depressing. If they saw how we've trashed everything.... 😑
by 'we' you mean Andrews don't you?
@@onlymelbourne2842Indians
@@onlymelbourne2842 That's enough iPad time for today, grandad
@@onlymelbourne2842 Are you serious? like...actually serious? You think Melbourne was this Garden of Eden and then one guy destroyed everything? You sound like a child.
@@AudioJellyfish One guy???....No he had help.
Gardens were so peaceful, more so than today. Slower pace of life.
It amazes me the beautiful buildings then compared to the ugly buildings now and they didnt have all the equipment we do now. People were much more skilled then too. The gardens, just beautiful.
Incredible! Thank you!
Thx!
Thank you for another glimpse back at a simpler and more peaceful world.
Thank you
lol I don’t think it was all that peaceful as by the end of the decade World War II started!
Peaceful? The most turbulent period in western history was happening
These videos are beautifully depressing. Thank you. I love them All. And it feels like heaven to watch. Then you wake up to reality your living in 2023 I wished I had been born in 1930 that would of been the PERFECT life. God what on earth were you thinking? 🤕If only we could go back and CHOOSE when we were born.... I wouldn't be here now.
My grandad was born in 1895 and had to fight in WWI. My dad was born in 1926 and had to fight in WWII. I was born in 1956 and didn't have to go to war. I'm blessed.
Thank you so much
" I wished I had been born in 1930" - so you too could get polio, or sent off to die in Korea, etc.
Lol you’re kidding aren’t you?? World War II came soon after and there was still plenty of diseases you could die from that today you can easily treat. Sure it was a simpler time and some had it good but it was still very flawed. Not saying today isn’t very flawed in other ways but I bet if it were possible to travel back in time and live in the early to mid 20th Century it wouldn’t be an easy adjustment and you’d soon regret it!
had to obey your husband or expect a beating. no birth control , children getting sick and or being abused at school , war , depression i mean not really that great in a lot of ways
How amazing! Great to see the old fashions ,cars and streetscapes , in so many familiar places!
Absolutely brilliant!
Love it...work and live in Melbourne..Fantastic
Gold money. (?)
Beautiful production.
Thank you for your efforts!
Absolutely Fascinating thanks for posting, and to think just a few years later in WW2 some of those young men in the film would lose their lives to the Japanese Military.. 🇦🇺
Thank you so much ;)
As we watch this video little do we know that WW3 might be starting in the next year or two judging by world events.
Great work ! Thanks !
Thank you so much
Thank you these are wonderful 😊
Time has only detracted from the beauty of the city back in the day
As a Victorian, all I can say is I love the traffic density back in the day!
I've lived in Tasmania for 25yrs now, I rarely return to Victoria, it overwhelms me.
The trams were always green I think 🤔 and the T Models were always black, my grandmother moved from rural Victoria to Nth Melbourne around 1915.
The gentry riding their horses around the botanical gardens is a shock! Foxes and rabbits bought over for their enjoyment have caused mayhem.
I was raised in the UK, but have spent the past forty years living in the US. When I see these old movies, it makes me realize how simple life was in the past. That’s not to say it was paradise but less complicated compared to today.
Where's all the protesters?
The lake in Fitzroy Gardens looks EXACTLY the same, I swear, it feels like even the plants have never died or been replanted, as if it's the same damn plants xD
Arts Centre area looks much nicer without the fake Eiffel Tower or the NGV's big cardboard box aesthetic.
If it were not for these wonderful and rare colorful videos, we would not have imagined life with such beauty and elegance 93 years ago 🎉🎉
Amazing work, on some amazing footage. Special.
Great job @NASS_0!
Was expecting a third world looking city…. But it looks nicer than today. Shockingly
It looks 3rd world today in parts of Melbourne thanks to mass my grey shon
@@ACDZ123 migration 🙄
@@pantherz9103 you can thank censorship for that
@@ACDZ123 and ignorant racism for your attitude?
City planning and migration have very little to do with each other. My mum was born in 33 and I remember much of this but by the 60s when I was born they had torn down so much of the older buildings and put in concrete or brick monstrosities. This was due to post-depression and post-ww2 supply constraints and a new desire for "modernism" which looks ugly to us now. All that had essentially nothing to do with immigration. You are swallowing too much Sky News.
I've been living in Melbourne since 1995 and I never knew it was this beautiful. Such a tragedy to what it has become now.
look at those super clean streets, just like New York or any Western city at the time, and we claim our cities today are better.....technology wise yes but as a society............no
I'd be surprised if new York had clean streets like this..new York was a megalopolis compared to Melbourne at that time
Demographics are destiny.
No plastic
Quand notre Terre notre belle demeure à tous n était pas encore saccagée.... magnifique.....merci Nass...
Merci a vous
How healthy the trees and plants used to look back then. Huge trees and brighter sunlight. Now sadly all we have is trees all around us discoloured and dying and pollution slowly killing us all. How nice it would have been living in those times :(
The city is actually much cleaner today with cleaner air than back then. Facts.
The AI colours this footage to make us feel nostalgic but it isn't realistic. It is very cool though.
Imagine how beautiful everything was before colonization.
If you love nature botanical gardens are worth visiting.
was in Melb today and caught up with some mates at the Mitre Tavern (another icon) .. changed so much .. 🇦🇺
glad a lot of the architecture is still present today
The first colonnaded building is the parliament, for those not familiar
After a century, parliament house actually looks more or less the same!
This is impressive. 👏👏I imagine one day, A.I will allow this to look like it was shot at 4K on modern equipment...
so amazingly beautiful!
The thing about lot of these video, as a modern person I can still roughly know where the video was taken, Melbourne did a lot of good work keeping a fair chunk of the old buildings.
Beautiful city ❤
good stuff mate
got any more?
It's like walking through the botanical gardens..So tranquil and peaceful..🎉❤😊
Incredible! 😮
Great job. Can you do any old Sydney clips?
Thx ;)
Other than the cars and the dress sense, it feels extremely familiar. Fascinating
Seeing comments how things since the 30s has changed for the worse in Melbourne is true to some extent but one thing that's still awesome and hasn't changed much going by this footage is the botanical Gardens
Although I would never want to live in the 1930s, I do wish we had the quietness and large spaces that they had back then.
0:55 That road/tramline is still there! Still looks alot like that but with less trees
Cantering on horseback around the Tan Track?! I’d love to do that!
Incredible!
Amazing!
It really was beautiful with great architecture!
What a shame we have so little respect for our heritage. It’s sad so many shallow minds had such a negative impact on such a beautiful foundation.
Well it was called Marvelous Melbourne for a reason. Original filmmakers must have been Freemasons no sign of St Patricks. Serendipitously most of the public gardens remain intact and a number of the significant buildings survive. If you time it right some of the magic still remains but get up very early.
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing this. It’s lovely to see how our city would have looked then. Far better than what it looks now full of rubbish, graffiti, signage and grunge.
Wo oh oh...It's slipping away from me.
Is this the original sound? Or did you (the uploader) put the sound in? Great video either way!
sound design!
Not all bad. Lanes have become trendy. National Gallery precinct. South bank, Bourke Street mall, museum in Nicholson Street, StateLibrary is now beautiful City loop, Docklands cleaned up wasteland etc, etc,
So beautiful
Holy crap. talk about time wrap. amazing.
Now this was when Melbourne was Australian before the foreign invasion
Modern Melbourne is a crime scene, all those beautiful buildings are nearly all gone, replaced by monstrosities. Greed greed greed
another stunning work of restoration. thanks nass ur the man!
Thank you so much ;)
NASS!, Thanks Much!
Thank you so much bro
The sound effects are perfect.
Thx ;)
Wow. This is awesome
Peace and tranquility ❤
Those people would not believe that 100 years after the streets are still pretty much look the same.
HI NASS,, SO COOOL MAX MY SON AND ALL,, LOVE THESE VIDEO'S.. ITS A STEP IN TIME.. WITH A VIEW AND SOUND.... THANKS....
Thx ;)
Great video, thanks. This comment was deleted somehow: If one reads the financial history of Melbourne it is clear that nobody returned with any fortune from the goldfields except the people who made candles and mining equipment. It is why Eureka happened, the Gov wanted pre-paid gold-mining licenses when the diggers were broke. The idea that the gold rush paid for more than a massage is absurd and the myth should be put to rest as there is no evidence to corroborate the claim in any historical document. The thousands of beautiful, ornate and long-lasting stone structures we attribute to the gold rush were here long before Cook claimed the place. Even the "war memorial" in Melbourne has no photographs of its construction by the Lodge Brothers, still in business but has no photos except the brick pillars built to cover the reflection pool that was originally there. Phony history.
Amazing