Arrived two years after this was filmed on the 'Orion'. Sydney was pretty well still exactly as shown here. Amazing to see those sights as they were again.

What a difference 60 years makes....all of the docks are now apartments owned by overseas residents and empty all year. The times when Australia actually cared about commerce and not just selling property taxed by the state government. Real progress......good job.

Thank you. I enjoy these historical records very much.

@NFSAFilms

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, thanks for letting us know.

@ktkt9982

3 жыл бұрын

@@NFSAFilms keep up the good work folks.❤👍🏻

@russelllewis3177

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the upload. Any links to any merchant footage of past Australian trading ships? Ex ANL etc. Cheers

@kayjenkins731

3 жыл бұрын

So do i

Love these old Australian films, especially the ones shot around Sydney Harbour.

Upload as much of these as possible!

@NFSAFilms

3 жыл бұрын

Ok!

@mathewtoll6780

3 жыл бұрын

@@NFSAFilms ok good

@danrobinson572

3 жыл бұрын

@@NFSAFilms great upload more of these if you got them.

I'll always watch anything like this. I find stuff like this so interesting and love seeing Australia way back when. Keep them coming as others have said. We will keep watching your amazing films. As close as we can get to a time machine back to the good old days.

When Sydney was a working harbour.

@amp279

3 жыл бұрын

No doubt some of the Italians on Neptunia would go on to work at Cockatoo Island. It's sad that outsourcing ripped the guts out of our dockies & Patrick stevedores lock out was a massive nail in the coffin.

@joshgee8714

23 күн бұрын

​@@amp279and greek too...my grandfather Nik was a boilermaker on garden island

To think Sydney harbour bridge was only completed 28 years before this film was made! I love how Australia was back then l suppose l am lucky to to remember these times! Keep these time capsules coming (a bit more down here in Victoria would be good too)

@NFSAFilms

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks James. Will do but just in case you haven't seen all of these Melbourne films kzread.info/head/PLYjU0Xph-Gj42hfvfKhmtQLa7U7MvpXUt

Growing up on the Harbour as a kid I used to tune my walkie talkie in to the ships bandwidth to listen in to their call signs.

A nice image of the SS Oronsay.🚢☺💞👍

The good old days, when life was simpler and happier.

Awesome! Great old 16mm Kodak stock with the warm natural color. Thanks for sharing. 👉👊

Fantastic

@NFSAFilms

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

A simpler time. Wish I born in this era!

Great stuff

I’m amazed at how much smoke was in the air, coming from the power stations and various factories. Sydney air is much cleaner now

@michaelnorth3666

Ай бұрын

From lead in petrol ⛽️...!

Beautiful, thanks for the entertainment. My father and uncle uncle came to Sydney in 1954 abord the m.s Australia. Sister ship to the Neptuneia. They were beautiful liners

Sailed from here on the Oriana in 1962 on a cruise with mum and bro. The opera house was just starting to be built. A yank asked what is that building being demolished!

OMG the beautiful look of this film. it's gorgeous

Back in days when we exported to many countries.

@Ross1il

3 жыл бұрын

And zero trade with China! We actually made stuff in Oz!

The good old days. Wheres the time machine when you need one. Burrrrr.

@NFSAFilms

3 жыл бұрын

We are your time machine :)

@vickidianacoghlan8946

3 жыл бұрын

No no no I want to be there in Sydney in the 1960s. 2020 SUCKS. corona sucks, the BS NWO crap, PC crap. A much better time the 1960s YES PLEASE!!!!!

@bigbillbroonzy992

3 жыл бұрын

@@NFSAFilms There's a Three Degrees TV Special on youtube from 1970 filmed by an Australian film producer Reg Robertson. Filmed in and around Hyde Park,Sydney. Alot of the surrounding buildings are gone. A fountain in part three on Macquarie Street opposite the back entry of the Botanical Gardens , now gone.

Incredible, cheers

Sad there is no films being made that are similar to this about life today.

@Ross1il

3 жыл бұрын

You could make a film about life today and it could look just great if it focussed on the positives. Just like the 60s sounds great in this one, but it doesnt show the negatives... life for the marginalized was crap and I feel priveleged that I wasnt one of them!

The old days were the best real Aussies

Very interesting 👍 Kudos

Wonderful as usual!

Lovely and thank you for posting. I love the sirens tugs used to have, including mine which was removed many years ago.

@NFSAFilms

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Just like then/now, those/these times are the best of times and the worst of times...

That was great. Really enjoyed it.

When Australia was Australia......

@Squibbiot

3 жыл бұрын

wdym we're still australia bro we arent going anywhere

Apart from a few cruise ships and the Navy Sydney is no longer a working harbour. The main port handling facilities are in Botany Bay these days. Wheat is exported from Newcastle. The harbour is also much less polluted without all of the industry on its shores.

Wow how Sydney Harbour as changed sibce this was filmed

this was before my era by about 25 years but funny to see the low(er) over- pass still that ran over circular quay... I never got to see it like that. not that I could remember anyway.

From days when Australia was Australia. Wonderful times in an idyllic paradise before it was torn apart by utterly useless politicians, developers and, worst of all, smart-arsed ideologists. Thankfully people back then may not have been stylized intellectuals but were just very simple unaffected folk who knew how to have a laugh and be happy. True freedom. I watched "They're a Weird Mob" recently for the first time. It was quite close to the mark and nothing like the bunch of stereotyped creeps they are made out to be today.

Thanks NFSA. Are you able to curate a future online exhibition around the Australian directors/film editors/ composers/session musicians who created the photography, editing & sound tracks of these Commonwealth Film Unit/Film Australia advertisements? The juxtaposition of the intensely conservative government parameters for the storyline or the vision of these 'advertisements' (often for immigration) with the often extremely avant-garde sound of the soundtracks, editing and art direction (Life in Australia series, perhaps especially?) is really interesting - and often with female composers/film editors too. It's a wonderfully subversive look at what was going on in another layer of Australian culture and society - inside the arts and film industries...Thanks!

@NFSAFilms

3 жыл бұрын

An interesting idea - will pass it on. There are well documented tensions between the government and the film makers (even between old guard and newer film makers).

I remember those timber gangplanks

Fasanating! Have you got any on Perth WA where I live? Cheers...

@NFSAFilms

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Nathaniel. Have a look at this WA playlist: kzread.info/head/PL45EE375716CAA187

@NathanChisholm041

3 жыл бұрын

@@NFSAFilms Ok thanks!

I think the Sydney Cove worked in Hobart years later

Interesting

Ah ha, the way we were, wasn't it great......

People living in the moment. Not a twenty foot equivalent unit intermodal freight container in sight.

@markf3229

Жыл бұрын

Yes. The wharfies demise. Couldnt at the end of the shift go to the local pub and sell gear that fell off a pallet. Accidentally of course

You could make a film about life today and it could look just great if it focussed on the positives. Just like the 60s sounds great in this one, but it doesnt show the negatives... life for the marginalized was crap and I feel priveleged that I wasnt one of them!

@SlCKB0Y-sb1kg

8 ай бұрын

Right.. the comments on most of these videos irritate me greatly with their rose coloured viewpoints of the past. Of course there is always the hint of racism in these comments, longing for a time when Australia was completely Eurocentric.

7:43 What's the country that the narrator says after the United Kingdom?

@NFSAFilms

3 жыл бұрын

Really not sure it's hard to catch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@BOpal-cl6of

3 жыл бұрын

Eire. The old name for Ireland.

@drunkdunc8738

3 жыл бұрын

Eire (Ireland)???

@NFSAFilms

3 жыл бұрын

Our viewers are smart, knew they would come to the rescue.

@qlder0284

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers everyone.

What year was this ? Great video when men were men!

@Ross1il

3 жыл бұрын

1960 - it shows a diary

Was that HMAS Sydney or HMAS Melbourne ?

Wharfie had the best jobs I watched them unload a ship in the 70s. One slowly walked into the cargo area comes out 1 suitcase another walks into cargo area walking out with 1 suitcase 5 wharfie all walkout of ship with 1 suitcase each talk about bludging

@judlar4352

3 жыл бұрын

You might not have realised what you were seeing, they might not have been genuine workers, but people coming into Australia discreetly, this is just one way folks got in through the back door (so to speak) in those days, they'd dress them up in workers garb, then when the coast was clear, they'd be told to get their bags & be taken to a safe place. It's just one consideration, not all dock workers were lazy.

@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!👊 Bless you me Union Wharfie mates 👉!

I had the.great fortune to be in the shipping industry in Sydney in the 1980s and beyond .its do different today a play ground and apart from cruise ships not many freighters and working berths around . Symtomatic of our major problems . We can not make a canoe ,and China knows it .

Sadly most of these people are no longer here

You could live and own a house for not much and when being Married was good welfare ...

When Australia was not a divided country.

@marleyvonhoffstein3193

2 жыл бұрын

It's not a divided country what are u on about?