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Life in Australia: Brisbane.
From the Film Australia Collection. Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1964. Directed by Robert Parker. A picture of life in the Queensland capital of Brisbane in the mid 1960s. The Life In Australia series portrays Australian cities and rural centres as happy, lively places where good homes, abundant jobs, schools, hospitals and amenities provide the foundation for a relaxed lifestyle where sport, shopping, religion and even art combine to create a homogenous and prosperous society. If you have any information about the people or places in this film we would love to hear your comments. - Фільми й анімація
Almost in tears they had it so good back then. Dad went to work, mum ran the house and they had everything they needed, were happy and spent lots of bonding family time together. Heaps of work for everyone to live a nice basic happy life.
i do think sometimes that the baby boomers dont really understand how life works these days. When i was a child in the 90s you were looked down upon to still live with your parents in your 20s and maybe even 30s. Or have trouble finding a job within a reasonable distance once you graduated or finished school. That's all pretty much the norm nowadays.
Michael Cappelli --the good times are gone, thank you liberals!
Yes Michael. I agree
Dilly Funny that, 1964 was Menzies time - a liberal as with most Aus governments until Hawke in 1983 (Whitlam wasnt long enough). Maybe you bankrupting politically correct Labor rats had more to do with destroying Australian families. I see conservative values all over this video (Liberal Values) not progressive/socialist Labor values.
Michael Cappelli still a better country to live in than america
Wow. Really amazing sitting hear on a Sunday morning and discovering my dad Rick Farbach playing with his band at cloud land. Almost had an 'out-of-body experience. Typically, we found this on an iPad.
I had a shock too when i watched this last year, 2019, to see my mother and I in the department store.
"Gill earns the money, his wife looks after the housekeeping" Now people don't know even know which freaken bathroom to use :(
Absolutely amazing, such memories of my Brissy that I grew up in. One quick flash of the YMCA sign reminded me how every Saturday morning I would hop on the bus at Indooroopilly all by myself at the age of 7 and 8 and travel to the City Hall and then walk the couple of blocks to the YMCA in Edward Street for Sat morning YMCA for boys, exercises, fellowship, etc...we even had a sex education presentation there on Saturday when I was about 9! If a parent let their child travel like that these days they would be reported to CPS I am sure. There was an indoor gym, indoor running track around the top of the gym, indoor pool and a really strange locker room smell. You could stay there in accommodation as well.
Wow! Great memories, glad we could bring a few of those back for you.
I can remember back then! Dad worked so hard to make sure we had food on the table. Mum & Dad went to play tennis for a break, bringing up us 3 kids. Oriel my older sister had the hairdryer? It looked so funny on her head & she used those silly big rollers in her hair. George,Anne, and Roma Street I knew so well. Dad would take us shopping in there every Saturday morning, to give Mum a break! The trams I disliked ever since I saw Lady & her daughter get hit by a tram. If brings back memories of when times were good for me. Mum & Dad worked so hard! I love them both & miss them so much!
Fond memories they can be translated to many a childhood.
Thankyou for your comment.
Pineapples were obviously a very big part of life in Brisbane! Seriously though, our family arrived in Brisbane in 1963 and this is how I remember the old place, wonderful. Thanks for putting it up!
Back then people prayed before meal. What a wonderful memory !
My family did and I still give thanks.
In 1964, I was 14yrs old and I remember all in the film quite well, particularly towards the end of the film there is a lady who was an actress and media personality Barbette Stevens. It seemed she was directing a play rehearsal. I enjoyed the 15 minute film very much.
Thanks alot for letting me see this city. So much from then is still here every day and will be forever but alot isn't either. It makes me sad and happy.
Bitter sweet.
I love these films! Have been looking at them state by state. A great trip down memory lane from my childhood.
I would love to turn back the clock !!!
Thank you for this classic upload
Hi Chance, thank you. Did you see the 4K version?
remember when we turned our back on our river, didn't it look industrial and run down. Lifestyle was more innocent and much less stressful, but the city looks better now.
A great trip down memory lane
Interesting to see the Johnstone gallery featured towards the end of the film. Brian and Marjorie Johnstone’s Bowen Hills gallery was one of the largest commercial galleries in Australia at the time. The Johnstones made a point of featuring the works of established and emerging Australian artists such as Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd, Margaret Olley, Ray Crooke, and Sidney Nolan amongst others. The gallery ran from 1952 until 1972, first in the basement of Brisbane Arcade, then under the Johnstone’s Cintra Road house. Sadly, both the house and former gallery have been demolished. Marjorie Johnstone, an actor of some note, also helped found the Twelth Night Theatre on the corner of Cintra Road and Montpelier Street, which was built on the site of her former family home, “Wyandra”.
Good information, thanks for letting us know.
Lived in Brisbane as a boy in the late 40's, early 50's, then we moved to Melbourne, how I wish I'd stayed in Brisbane, weather wise you can't beat it, and if only life were still as simple and happy as it was back then. So much for 'progress'!
Girvan Paterson summers are horrible in Qld. No summer daylight savings. Boo-hoo
At 16m41s into the film is a street scene of Logan Road, Mt Gravatt Central and I can see the BCC supermarket where my Mum bought the groceries in big brown paper bags. This same area is where I caught numerous buses to primary and high school, and where the tramline had its last stop. My Dad worked driving the trams and later as a bus driver for the Brisbane City Council which stored their buses at the Light Street Depot in the Fortitude Valley. The original basement Milano restaurant in Queen Street had the best baked New York cheesecake in town, and Cloudland at Bowen Hills had midnight to dawn dances where you caught the 7am bus back home! Memories!!!
***** Thanks for letting us know, glad the film brought back some memories for you.
Great look into our past. Thanks for putting it up on You Tube guys. Lived in Brisbane as a kid during this time so I remember lots of this stuff as it was.
We lived in Brisbane in 2002-2004 at Indooroopilly area. Loved the cool and sunny winter, and the blossoming Jacarandas in spring..though the summer temps can sometimes be almost unbearable (for us), although we come from region of tropical climate.
Great thanks for letting us know. Glad you enjoyed it.
Ah. ! TC's Sound Lounge in Elizabeth Street was where I 'grew up'. hahahaha Loved the open air trams that ran all the way to Enoggera. My dad was in the army there and we lived in housing commission after waiting out at Holland Park to get a house. I am 73 now and loved watching all those scenes I remember so fondly. (y)
A specially built newspaper hurler's car door at 19:10 ... it was a "calling" back in them days!
it's wss so much nice bsck then miss old days.life was easy and safety.
OMg... I weas there as a teenager in 1964... recognised and remembered everything... even think I saw an old friend in the footage....
1964, 20 years after the 2nd. World War. The growth after this time was awesome. I'm glad I grew up there
Holy shit it is 23 Tenby Street Mt Gravatt! If you look at Google street view it hasn't changed much. Even the brick work on the left and right of the driveway is the same, as well as the pattern of the house numbers.
Love this video clip - an everyday suburban home in Brisbane, 1964. Some bright spark (and I mean that seriously) on UA-cam has already tracked the house address to 23 Tenby St, Mt Gravatt - just down the road from where I once lived, albeit 38 years later.
Glad you enjoyed it. Must have been a big surprise. Thanks for letting us know.
1:20 Brisbane's internet still runs like that.
sarcasmo57 z
This is still relevant eons later in internet years.
because they still run the same system
Then how am I watching this vid
Can confirm I tried downloading a game of steam at 1 megabyte a second.
Love Austrália form brazil
Very interesting. I recognised a lot of the big buildings and the bridge, but the city streets have changed so much. I was born in 1964 but I recall the trams. They were scary, especially the way they would stop and let you off right in the middle of a busy intersection.
would liked to have seen the view from the mountain (Coot-tha) and the summit kiosk, plus QU, Sth Bris, even Nudgee beach, as well as the barge to Straddy etc, from back in the day. The aerial shot of the Goldie was a knock out. Looked pristine .. no high rise. Wonder what Mooloolaba looked like back then? Otherwise I well recognise the river environs from 10 years later, when I first came to live in Bris. Back then I couldn't understand apparent lack of interest in the river as the city's key lifestyle feature! How attitudes have changed.
looks like that church at 15.27 and the classroom shown earlier is preserved at the museum at beenleigh
love it - the boy eating an iced vovo and dawdling in the fridge
The Museum of Brisbane in City Hall is selling tea towels featuring this delicacy.
i love australia! i wanna go there someday!
+It's EMU 83 Funny to think most of these people are long dead now
Oi mates, this is my hometown, get the fuck off my lawn and my bloody land for starters. If anybody is getting the shit off this continent its pretty damn obvious.
whats a third world imigrants for u? where r they from?
Mauricio Freisleben middle east
N1GHTPAUL Just Don't Go To Queensland, Or Western Australia...!!!
There seemed to be large attendances at events such as the races, dances, etc. I guess we now have so many forms of entertainment that some of those older ones are not so crowded.
Nostalgia!
The Golden Circle Cannery was a HUGE employer. Most people I knew growing up worked there at one time or another. Even just part time for good wages when they had big orders.
They really were the good old days for those old enough to remember. My 3rd child was born in 1964.If I really had to choose an era though,it would be the 40/50's when I grew up. Best time of my life. Only about 1 murder a year,not one a day like now.
This 'Life in Australia' film seems more experimental than the others, especially in its choice of musical score (5:23)!
This is actually the first episode of the series. Made in 1964 it predates most of the other episodes by a couple of years. Also the episodes were filmed by different directors. Being the first episode may have meant a bit more experimentation.
Que hermosos tiempos los de australia.
I didn't know Brisbane was so bustling, cultured and sophisticated, in 1964.
NFSA, If you rescan this film it would look fantastic with a full color restoration in 4K.
Hi Steve this series, and a lot of the Film Australia Collection, was produced for migration purposes. These films would have been shown at embassies and migration centres, mainly in England, to give prospective migrants an idea of life in Australia. Albeit a rose tinted view for sure.
First thing that strikes me is how laid back and tranquil life was back then, now its a rat race.
It's terrible nowadays society has gone 100 steps backwards
mangrove jack So true, I really miss the old Australia.
Yep, we all used to leave our doors unlocked back then. Same with the cars, always left the keys in them. Brissy was just a big country town. Oh how I miss those days. This film is just so evocative.
Breando I agree
Breando you can thank the change to the money-grubbing mentality!!!
For anybody who maybe curious...... the housewife was played by Gloria Birdwood - Smith who was a renowned actress most particularly on stage.......
Wow thanks for the information. Appreciate anything like that. Will add to our records.
By The Way you are commenting on our old SD version see the link for a newer 4K HD version. Thanks.
And how great that she is also involved in an amateur theatre group as her past time. Cute.
Thanks for telling us that little fact. I lived a few doors down and I was absolutely certain it was not Mrs Thomson, in fact I didn't recognise anyone of the Thomsons from number 23. I posted a comment to that effect quite a few months ago and you have confirmed my suspicions. Furthermore, Thompsons never owned a Hydramatic EK Holden, I think they drove a Vauxhall Velox. So thanks mate.
Hi Holdenboy1960. Yes you have to remember that these films were made as Government propaganda so you are only getting the story and images they wanted to portray about Australia. Later on in the 1970s when the Film Unit started to have more control over what they produced, and and with changing governments, there are broader social issues and aspects of society shown. We will be posting these so please keep watching. Thanks again for the comments.
I disagree. It was not made as a propaganda film, it was made as an information film. It portrays Brisbane life and was screened in townships hundreds of miles from the city so Queenslanders had some idea of what city life was like. Propaganda films are made (the ABC is expert at this) to influence the public politically.
Don't post those and ruin my good reputation of you
@MrDenyWeny Awesome bit of detective work. Thanks for the info.
A population of 600,000 then now it has 2,275,000.
+Maddy Herne lots of crime to
This have a name: Expansionism in all ways
Maddy Herne and your point is...?!
Possibly this. 1964=less population.less crime,less motor vehicles,less pollution,less traffic congestion.
It was around 1.6 million at the turn of the century.
It was a rather artistic video for its time, the use of the abstract phone calls at the start, the quirky music, the lack of narration throughout. I would have liked some interviews however.
Does anyone know which residential street was used for the hero family of this clip?
What make is the car at 20.06 ?
Church on Sunday. Not 5 times a day every day whilst getting centrelink!
Brisbane still had trams early 1960s & I also owned a Holden EK in 1964, automatic too, preferred kombis though, had a couple of split windscreen ones, also had a Herald Triumph, took the hardtop off for convertible.
Oh god. Those cardboard backpacks. 6:49 This great video is full of awful memories...
It's the Queen's English if I'm not mistaken. I think most media was presented with a British accent until maybe just a couple decades ago. I could be wrong, but I think I remember hearing that from somewhere.
Oh, where are the days when you could actually talk to a human? Wow, love this film. Not an Aussie, but going to travel there next year!
I had a port like that too. They were compressed cardboard with rounded plastic corners. The school desks looked familiar too. I wonder what school that was? We were migrants from Britain, although I was born here, so we were a lot poorer than these guys. Concrete house, second hand car, no uni or trips to the beach. But a great bloody country to grow up in. Still the best in the world!
Was that some open outcry at 1:28? was there an exchange in Brisbane?
Does anyone know what TC's Sound Lounge was? 13:45 in.
Lots of good noise and dancing.
The video seems a pretty accurate portrayal to me according to my memories. But why on earth that particular music sound track?!
Brisbane's 1964 population was 600,000; equivalent to the population of the Gold Coast today. Fast forward 50 years later and Brisbane's population is almost @ 2.5 million only to find how sustainable public transport was back then compared to now.
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It was sold in 2011 and appeared to still be owned by this family!
Looks like a fallout 4 cutscene
Hahahaha so awkward
Nine News is trying to flog this a an exclusive not before seen event yet it’s been available on here for years.
Yes we've uploaded it twice. See the link for the 4K version.
The school is Wilston State School !
ANZAC square looks exactly the same. Not one bit different.
Just look at it today. Brisbane's disgrace. Naturally the pollies are blaming the weather for its not being completed for the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day last year.
ty FILMAUSTRALIA i understand that , that's why i didn't want to be political about it just an open view of the vid in general . you posted a couple vid's of Newcastle witch showed more to the true living & works of the town & lifestyle back then , just got to read between the lines some time's is all . but on that note, Very good vid's & ty for posting them Cheers Shane .
I didn't know many churchies here in Brissy growing up. What a waste of a Sunday morning!
What tune are the Salvos playing at 15:40?
Not sure what the tune is. Sure someone on the interwebs will know.
Handel, "See, The Conqu'ring Hero Comes"
Thanks Codenwarra. That didn't take long for a hero to come along.
I knew I'd heard it before and was pretty sure it was Handel.
Yes great you could answer your own question, we will add this information to our database for that film too. Conquered.
Whats the group at 12:56?
+FrothNinja Sorry not sure who that band is. Rick Farbach appears later playing at Cloudland. Nice Epiphone though.
Found the house its : 23 Tenby Street, Mount Gravatt !!
Thompsons lived there
I bet that giant golden toadfish caught at 12:00 was delicious. At least some things haven't changed!
Ah, they were the days, peaceful , relaxed and a red hot root on every corner.
@Moey D good looking woman
According to the date on this video this was filmed in 2011...not surprised.
Ha ha I see what you did there.
This has to be the strangest music I’ve ever heard
Wonder if they've fixed that clock in King George Square ? yet?
Give them time. This is Brisbane, after all...
Lauren Dillon And what exactly is wrong with the clock?
+Kerensa Birch We are waiting for parts.....from 'interstate'.
I'm waiting for them to fix King George Square. A fried egg with a slice of bacon on the side is on the menu in summer. The radiated heat in this era of global warming is incredible.
my god how things have changed
VoVo's at 7.28m!
+56music Iced!
+56music You can see them being made in our earlier film here ua-cam.com/video/c05_nlkdNDs/v-deo.html
Wish our food prices were the same now as back then.lol
Was this run to attract the poms?
you are still charged the primitive connection charge today like at 1.16
Where in Brisbane is the church at 15:29?
Found it, Holy Family Church. Cnr Ward and Central Ave Indooroopilly.
It still hasnt changed
Yes, @@JiP01, very distinctive architecture and art. It's where I give an annual talk to the Year Twos about that nearby icon, the Walter Taylor Bridge.
that certainly looks like it. How the heck did you find that? ahaha
Coorparoo bowls club!
Why do the kids in all these films always have a chess set on the table next to their bed? lol!
hot dang, 1950s wife!
isnt it good to c brissy is as exciting back then as it is now
I remember Cloudland before the bulldozers got to it
Yes a Studebaker Lark. :-)
plot twist: this is a Brisbane film from the future. 2164
+MarkMash17 I don't get it.
+Centipede haha yea I reckon, because society is so ratshit nowadays it reverted back to the 50s 60s lifestyle 40 years from now
06:48 pretty dodgy road crossing by the school kid...straight across from behind a bus without looking. I wonder if he's still alive?
watching this back in the 60's if it didn't make you want to immigrate nothing would back then £10 and you were on the ship everything was easy then
1961 Studebaker ?
Loos very similar to American life in the sixties, Australia and the USA don't seem so much different
+Stephen Mahala I grew up in the outer suburbs of Sydney but moved to Queensland a few years ago. We were slightly backward during that era. We had no post (Zip ) codes yet, old English pound currency, the White Policy was still used for immigrants, shops were closed on weekends, and had only black and white television transmission. I suppose we Aussies were the same as you Yanks except we used a lot of slang and malapropisms. Our Aussie accents were more broader than it is today.
And you used to use imperial measurements like MPH like the Americans
Not back then
95% of scenes my first thought is "WTH is that??" I feel a desperate need to place every scene.
I remember nearly all of those places and if I don't remember the specifics I can remember the general areas. Just so evocative.
Tell me what suburb the house is in please.
Heather Walker No idea!
That house could be in any one of the expanding suburbs surrounding inner Brisbane.
+Jem Well as it happens another eagle eyed viewer found the actual house for sale in 2011. What's more it still had some of the same furniture and kitchen layout as in this film
23 Tenby St Mt Grarvatt - here's the real estate link check it out: www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-qld-mount+gravatt-107195518
Hah, it's the 60s dude! In Australia no less - what did you expect? ;)
Orhh Lord, thank God that era is over. Those shots of that banal home life gave me knots in the stomach.
Surely it can’t be that bad in OZ these days , as a Brit it’s really hard to get in these days so your immigration can’t be that bad ? You should see what’s it’s like in the UK we let anyone in here !!!!
All the talk here about how aboriginals weren't allowed in Brisbane back then are absolute rubbish. I worked for a multi-national company at the time this film was made, called FRANKIPILE . We operated a huge pile driving machine ...and guess what...the foreman and main men operating that machine were aboriginals. We put down the concrete piles for some of the tallest buildings built at that time all over Queensland, NSW and yes, right in the inner-city area. On Friday nights we would all go to the pub together up on Spring Hill.