Postcard From Perth
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Made by The National Film Board 1954. Directed by Shan Benson. The State Capital of Western Australia, Perth is often the traveller's first glimpse of the Commonwealth and a very happy and sunny glimpse it is. The Swan river and King's Park are outstanding beauty spots in a growing, modern city.
This is like a time machine, it's one thing to see photos and videos from that era. But to see it coming from your home town, showing streets my grandparents much have travelled down is fascinating.
Pre-1950's Perth (CBD) had so many wonderful old buildings it was amazing.
But business wanted a 'new' modern-looking city and money talks the loudest, so the victorian-era buildings were demolished so hideous office towers and ugly commercial buildings could move in.
It's ironic how most of those ugly 1950's-60's buildings in the CBD have now been demolished and replaced with newer ugly buildings.
You can't stop progress but we still need to limit how destructive it is on historical sites.
And a lot of them were demolished at night, the sneaky swines.
So sad... I wish I got to see more of those buildings
I've had no interest in visiting Perth because it always looked so uninteresting from what I could see with the corporate buildings and no apparent charm. But the Perth in this video looks very appealing. I'd definitely want to visit if it was still like this. But surely there must be pockets here and there in the city where it's not just concrete towers?
It used to be beautiful but now it's a generic modern city. Could be anywhere.
Wow so beautiful.
I will always love Perth, my birth home and favourite place on earth 🖤💛
Great film, thanks for posting.
Seeing London Court being the same as it is today is very nice and has not been bulldozed for some stupid bullshit office tower
Give it time!
6:42
I would love to re-do this film shot-for-shot. Oh I wish I had the time. And money...
grum you could do it now. Just use a tripod and an iPhone. It would cost less than $1000 to do
Lovely Perth... the music...completes the ambience...🥰
Very nice indeed and thank you to the photographer who took the footage and showed how important it is to record events as they happened thus preserving it for future generations. If you are a photographer you might consider recording today's scenes for those who come after us.
There are still hundreds of old buildings that have been preserved, Heritage week, April - May is a great time to explore some of them and learn more about their history
Beautiful looking city. It reminds me of Plymouth, in England. The only difference is that the city looks more pedestrian friendly, and car and truck friendly than Plymouth. I'd like to visit Perth one of these days. I've heard by some people that it's a boring city to visit. I reckon so if you expect more than what a city is willing to give you. I believe in touring a city for a few days to get a feel for what it's like before making my own decision.
Perth is beautiful
Believe me, knowing both Perth and Plymouth, Perth is light years nicer than Plymouth. The streets are clean for a start.
@@Spookieham Probably, compared to Perth. It's been a few years since I last visited Plymouth England. But the last time I visited Plymouth, things looked more modern than the first time I visited a decade prior when I first visited with family. Hopefully I'll be able to visit again, once this pandemic gets under control assuming it ever does.
The Trolley Buses were so nice.
I am fond of the UWA campus, Winthrop Hall 😍
loved it!! Cheers Inside Cover that is some great vision of Perth.
Good to see this as we cannot go to the Republic of WA anymore
Nope, don't want you, we're full up.
Dictator MaoGowan is holding us all to ransom over here. He's just a pawn of the WHO, WEF, Bill Gates, Fauci and the Internationalists ultimately run by the Jesuits who helped him get in as Premier.
Great video. Unsure why so many dislikes ...
Bon Scott's WA paradise zone
That why its one among zillion's reason i love Perth and want to visit if God let me win in lottery lol !!!!!
God bless WA
If you visit Perth on the basis of this, you'll be disappointed. If a building reaches 70 years old it is pulled down. If it reaches 120 it would still be pulled down, except perhaps for the facade.
Not true
My son's house in Highgate is
103 yo
@@capitainebonhomme1609 I'm not saying there isn't any, but in general, it certainly is the case. Within the last couple of years, they've pulled down the old brothel on the corner of Pier and Wellington Street, which proudly proclaimed the date 1885. By Perth standards that is ancient. Now there is only the facade. I have been waiting to see this disappear for decades and now it is finally gone. There appears to be little appreciation in Perth for its past.
Beautiful times - and when and why did Australians stop speaking so mellifluously...?
Because in those days poms were narrators
@@capitainebonhomme1609 Nah...
Television and media as well.as lowering of educational standards. Elocution was once a subject! Thar char is over thar!
I was wondering if I could use for a documentary I am making?
Hi Michaela. Please contact us at faclibrary@nfsa.gov.au hopefully we can organise something for you.
So nice to pigs outside enjoying life rather than in a hell hole.
Does anyone know the name of the song at 0:40? thanks
@PimpGravy why is that?
Money decisions are often wrong decisions
St bigittes church and the nuns next door on fitsgerald st
old growth loggers are cancer
How Boring..... and nothing has changed.
You're a window cleaner. Surely you've seen some good stuff? 😁
2:51 is no one upset by those beautiful trees they are cutting and the CO2 emissions from the Kwinana factory?
Ah yes environmental destruction presented in a nice warm soothing song!
hopefully you are doing your part and living carbon neutral. they probably didn’t think too much about co2 70 years ago.
Population 300,000. It's now over 2 million and you're battling to find a dinky-di Aussie. Sad
What is a dinky-di Aussie ???
@@itchyvet a real aussie, not an import
Stupid racist prick, blaming others for his or her own inadequacies.
@@CovidConQuitTheCensorship so is an African person born here a real aussie then?
@@rexxx777 Nope
I wish we still had all these beautiful old facades in Perth city... it looks so ugly and bland now. There's not much left of our old heritage.
puddingforhitler what heritage???😂
Exactly. They demolished some of the buildings didn't they? It doesn't have that classic appearance anymore, very trashy!
It was a great place once. Small, yes but with the POTENTIAL to grow and modernise while keeping much of its history and charm. What has wrecked the place is idiot political fools believing that motor cars were more important than lifestyles and secondly as someone else has said, the flooding in of all kinds of losers who do not understand the meaning of respect. JC, you are so so right with your comment.
I am 82 and can remember so much and oh boy I miss it and totally hate this modern way
I'm 35, born and raised in Perth, and I hate this modern way too- devoid of humanity and charity.
This modern way is not nice at all. God has been entirely left out of the picture.
@@andrewp.8432 amen. Verily I say unto you. It is dreadful. Worlds gone cold.
And no more freedom just endless rules and regulations.
@@rosemerrynmcmillan1611 lmfao good. the shitty old ways of religion will largely die out with the older generations, and I'm totally here for it
I remember every building, ,, trams. Trolley buses, king’s Park without a Brewery building in sight. Perth is still home to me. What a fantastic video to see and reminisce about what we had and what we have become. A humongous City with new suburbs that have grown out of nowhere. No pine plantation left. No easy pace of life. High rise buildings are the norm. I’m too bloody old to like what is happening. But Perth is, and will be home forever.
The brewery has been there since 1857, so no you dont.
The destruction of Perth
Wish we didn't cut so many trees down
@Infinite Plain But who's planting? No one. And who's waiting 500 years?
@@rangerjaxmaxmay7742 shame on us for missing the truth. Look at all those stone and brick plaster buildings in Perth. They are engineering feats of excellence. When were they built? 100-150 years ago by pioneering and bread pinching men and women all done with horse and cart.
The truth- we are the inheritors of burnt lands, and we are being blamed.
Put the animals back on the land, they're not there now.
Our city really has come a long way. We've even learned how to pronounce Mundaring properly.
I guess York and Northam could be considered southwest of the rest of Australia, but they're definitely northeast of Perth.
You got it - my thoughts exactly 😊😊😊
...with rain... to grow almost anything.... not anymore ...
@@shanoinoz well to be fair, Perth and the SW has always been dry and stinking hot in the summer.....even 70 years ago. Clearly those images were shot in the middle of winter :)
@@inefekt no, rainfall has decreased by 20% just since the 70's.
I'm from New Zealand and first visited Perth with my family in May 1981 as a 14 years old.I immediately had a strong connection with Perth's beauty and revisited in 1987 , living there for 8 months on Monash Ave in Nedlands behind Kings Park. A great location being close to the beautifully designed University and Swan River along beautiful suburbs such as Dalkeith and Cottesloe.The Indian ocean and it's beaches were simply wonderful playgrounds. Revisited 18 months later in 1989 for a week on my way to England and then again with my wife in 1993. Perth has grown rapidly since then and I hope that hasn't had a negative effect on what I classed as Australia's gem city.
You were in a great location. Close
To everything.
I live here and was born in 1998. I'd say times were better then though.
Perth is a meth infested drug den. Dalkeith is still nice and around the uni, but not affordable for us average class. I would say that for all the faults of Perth today, it still maintains a high quality of life, there are just a lot of people whom dont want to work very hard and expect everything handed to them.
@@davetate77255 what nonsense. Perth remains one of the best places on Earth to live, especially to bring up kids. Is it perfect? Of course not, nowhere is perfect. But with arguably the best economy anywhere, low energy prices, fabulous weather, great hospitals, universities and public transport, low population density and relatively stable house prices, if there's a better place, please name it.
My grandchildren are loving Perth and Fremantle now, fully involved in sport and education, with just as much potential as the youngsters featured here.
The major difference is that my granddaughter's football team won this year's Premiership (Aussie Rules Football for Women), whereas in my day (1952) it was the Hockey Premiership that girl's teams vied for.
Makes me sick seeing all this beautiful houses subdivided with no garden.
Everybody in WA needs to watch this.
My exact thought! I have to share this with everyone I know. I live in York, and work in Northam 😊
I am from Queensland with relatives in WA. I think the whole of Australia should see this.
Loved it. Thank you.
All the culture disappeared when they knocked such historical buildings down. That's Perth's main issue, just houses and no certain cultural building style except for Fremantle and some other small spots.
Almost every 'main' historical building in this video is still standing today. Not sure what you're referring to?
@@d3vnull86 ok
@@d3vnull86 Some of the big and important ones remain but there were plenty that were lost
1:10 that's the corner of St George's Tce and Barrack st......all gone now...criminal
It's sad to watch this old footage and see how Perth's history has been destroyed along with it's culture.
It was such a friendly place up until the early 80's, shame it has been transformed into such an antisocial shithole today.
Blame the baby boomers! Every thing was pretty good up until they showed up
Your negativity is worn as a dark shroud, contaminating your world view. I lived in Perth from 1952 to 2000, and made one of my regular visits in Sept 2017. I found Perth to be more multicultural in the city, but just as friendly and beautiful wherever I travelled, from Clarkson in the north, to Rockingham in the south.
Blame your local gov't for that one.
The Chinese, Indians and Africans have taken over. Bloody government
@@CovidConQuitTheCensorship And?
Unfortunately Perth has lost its charm. Such a shame.
And a dangerous place at night.
Wish we hadn't destroyed so many great (human scale) buildings Still, when it comes to sterile foyers in unremarkable glass skyscrapers we're probably up there with the best!
Seeing Perth today is sad. It has lost all of its early Australian character, in favour of the modern glitzy, glassy, tasteless conglomeration which is more akin to an Arabic or Asian 'landfill,' and whose cities are indistinguishable from one another.
From a singer in West L.A. ~ I see your Perth of WA from almost 60 years ago is FILLED with charming buildings and beautiful countryside ~ Bravo ~ hope to see it in person one fine day! ANDY
Largely gone now. Full of drugged up young people.
Yeah, those hippies from the 60's sure stuffed it up.@@charlottejameson8924
@@charlottejameson8924 That's very modern of Perth, keeping up with the times
I'm 71 now, it was such a long, long time ago.
@itchyvet An AngloSaxon Celtic descendant of the original Colonial population from 1788 onwards is what we term as a 'dinky-di' Aussie. Be proud of your heritage, country and race mate. These are the people that made Australia what it is today. But really GOD'S BLESSINGS made Australia what it is today because these generations honoured and worshipped the God of the Bible who gave them this land Australia. Current day Australia is spiritually very sick and apostate. This of course has been the agenda for a very long time to attack our Christian English societies and destroy them and take them over. They're doing a good job those Jesuits. Protestantism is practically dead. Sick of 'political correctness' a term invented by Chairman Mao BTW.
You don’t see the dams over flowing much these days
Before the boomers ruined it
Ruined it?
6:25 - Was hooking prams on the back of buses done anywhere else in Australia?
7:50 - Footage of the WAFL match between West Perth and Claremont at Claremont Oval on the 21st of August. West Perth 15.7 (97) defeated Claremont 6.6 (42), before a crowd of 2,482.
Sure that's not Leederville Oval which was the Falcons home ground?
Never saw bus hooking prams in QLD. I lived in Brissy til 1970.
Surely Leederville Oval - West Perth are listed first on the scoreboard.
Started work with Transperth(Metropolitan Transport Trust) as a driver in 1993 and we stopped taking prams on back of buses in about 1995 due to some safety issues. Buses at that time did not have conductor and driver had to stay in seat and wait for passenger to take pram off themselves. Also you sometimes had idiots jump on the back of bus and hold on by pram hooks.
@@louiswills5085 Leederville Oval was the home ground of West Perth, The Cardinals - known as the Cardies. They were my team.
@3.00 when did York and Northam become southwest towns? Obviously a production by o’siders.
I assume they meant south west as in Southwest WA (not South West of Perth), they probably could've phrased it better
What happened to brilliant architectures in Perth?? All new buildings now are boring rectangular monoliths!
4:26 When Mundaring Wier was full. Its last overflow was in the 90s :(
Think I
You will never again see such an overflow. All the Perth water catchment dams these days are all interconnected. meaning if low rain fall in one area they can pump water from a dam that had good rainfall and vice versa.When a dam gets close to full, they divert the water to a dam that needs filling, thus spreading the catchment abilities.
Can't imagine having to cut down a Jarrah tree by hand. It's a nightmare just trying to split it for firewood.
This feels like a 1000 years ago now. How times change people
The good old days when people were honest,caring, helpful, helped one another, genuine, humble, and NOT selfish and worked hard and were happy with what they had..
And had respect and morals..
And no-one's fat, they are all neatly dressed and with no tattoos or body piercings. And no-one's surgically attached to an electronic device.
Yes, back before the Chinese took over
And no one locked their front door or car.
@@itchyvet Cook changed that!
They got rid of those great trolley buses not long after this film. I often wonder why. Funny thing they are now popular in the more advanced and enlightened parts of Europe.
oil companies bought them, closed them down to increase profit
No Irish Need Apply would've been on the front door or windows in almost every Perth outlet or am l over exaggerating?
2:08 These days that forklift driver would could lose his license for driving along with the load swaying up in the air like that. It's a sure way to get someone killed.
Is this a film that was made to attract immigrants from UK?
It may have been, many of the various film units films were. But it may have had use to promote domestic tourism as well.
So different, in some respects maybe better than today
@johnnymanhands This video was made in 1954. Of course it looks like something out of the 50's!
@antijerrem Wish we didn't destroy so many old buildings...
I enjoyed this, though it would have been better if someone who could pronounce the place names had narrated it... "Mundahring" FFS!
Now this great city has evolved into a modern metropolis of almost 2 million, yet when you look at Adelaide it still looks like this even now lmao
WOW! Thanks IC. What an entertaining time capsule. I lived next door to the house in Floreat featured, not realising I was almost famous.
Righto , which one of you funny buggers painted the swans white?.
These are found at Northam. Imported around 1930.
One of my mates tried to rob a bank on horseback when I was a kid, good times!
Charming movie. Why are 90% of the comments on here so vile? Time for you tubers to mature a bit, I think.
@fuzzjunky Wow looks different today - but quite beautiful in it's own way. Nice video you should post it as a video response.
pretty sure a few things haven't changed. i used to live in that house next door to 7:26. The house in this video is still there
great vid. this was before the cashed up bogans came and destroyed trading prices and cost of living
Can't believe they didn't show the beach, would have been funny to see what they were wearing in those days.
Yes, a fair bit more than we do today or a fair bit more than I do today 😉
Bikinis, not much different from now!!!!
Yes, would've been terrific if they'd shown the Art Deco style of the old Scarborough Beach Hotel (demolished to make way for ugly apartments).
People in Perth would swim in the river in those days as it was close to many peoples homes, clean and safe without waves, the sea was mostly avoided for swimming, considered too dangerous with poor infrastructure and too far
Give me a time machine, better day's.
5:18 The Triumph of the Will.
@thatgrumguy that would be an interesting project for sure - good luck!
Not a fat person in sight
Put the animals back on the land and the trees, trees. They're not there now. It's all be turned to miles of wheat and sugar. Useless junk.
what a time-tunnel trip this one is!! This was filmed in the year I arrived in Oz and brought back a huge array of memories. For all that many of the buildings were quite striking, they weren't actually "old", they weren't genuine renaissance or medieval buildings - just mid-20thcentury reproductions for the most part. Let 'em go, I say. Europeans and Brits are paying through the nose for one series of renovations and upgrades after another to keep their old piles useable. Forget 'em, we've got better and more ethical things to spend our hard-earned pennies on.
@@privateuser5397 Yes. Unbelievable how ignorant some are
2 questions:
What is that church at 6:02 please?
Is it still there also?
Thanks
St Mary's Cathedral.
We should've kept the fucking steam trains.
Steam trains ROCK
Very interesting. Love the old architecture.
Glad you enjoyed it
quick shout out to imperialism 🤙
Good to see West Perth beating Claremont at Leederville oval.
funny enough i have actually been on the train at 1:19 and that was somewhere between 1989 and 91
Hello from 2021❤️
The house jn Floreat at 7:25 is still around in 2024.
This is great! I only have a few black and white photos of the 50's but the vision in this video is embedded in my memory. So good to see it all again just like we lived it! Thanks for the memory!
@lpoleschtschuk - HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA ... was thinking the same
wow..imagine coming back in time to this
Perth is now doing a wonderful job is preserving some of the old city facades as it develops the city further.
Some serious nostalgia going on at my place right now.
Propaganda at its best. Shows nothing of the old Perth, now demolished. Guilford amazing history... Nothing.
14 century maps of wa coast showing Perth, gearlton, Darwin as jarwin. Turkish admiral peri ressi.
Perth was re discovered!
@thatgrumguy Unfortunately you wouldn't be allowed to film at the train station or the airport, and quite possibly half of the industrial locations.
There is currently no law in Australia that prohibits you from filming in a public place without asking for permission.
nice then by fay...civilized...
5:17 gotta love the bare feet
If you aren't a local, bare feet is still pretty common here
Brought back so many memories of a happy childhood !!!!
so may beautiful knocked down for skyscrapers
@ 0:50 The sailor seems awfully interested in that guy for some reason ?
Shore leave?
cabin fever.
...Mundaring wier full.... yeah about 30yrs ago... usually about 20% now on average
They forgot to say, ‘giant white pointer sharks await the struggling swimmer, or lone surfer, gaily near the shores, basking in the western sun’
We had a “Pizza Showtime” in the late 70’s !