Sydney
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- čas přidán 7. 05. 2023
- This film is silent. From The Film Australia Collection. Made by the Cinema and Photographic Branch 1928.
Trains at Central Station with the Grand Opera House (formerly New Adelphi Theatre) in the foreground. Circular Quay, commuters, trams and ferries; Manly beach. City traffic on King St and George St, Palmer's department store, the Royal Exchange Hotel, Harrington's camera shop, Martin Place and the GPO. Macquarie St (showing the Dixson wing of the State Library of NSW under construction) and the city skyline. Sydney University. The Domain and the Royal Botanic Gardens. Government House and the Art Gallery. Boys play cricket at Rushcutters Bay park. Apartment blocks in the city and Potts Point including the Astor, Manar, Carisbrooke and Carinthia. View of the harbour overlooking Darling Point. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
😍5:33 The gentleman cleaning the park bench for the lady, absolutely charming.
How magnificent Sydney once looked.
Still does
Just maturing again after a 70 year gap
I used to be fascinated by the old wooden Circular Quay jetties and ferries of the 60s. Everything creaked and moved with the water and arrival of the boats. Catching the ferry to Taronga was an absolute joy as a child.
This is the Sydney of my ancestors. I love seeing how it was for them.
6:01 I'm wondering if the young trees surrounded by metal guards, leading up to the NSW Art Gallery, are the same LARGE Morton Bay Figs that grace the Domain today? I am immensely grateful to the landscape architects from a century ago, who designed and planted the magnificent trees we get to enjoy today.
this is amazing. this channel is so under rated. people will be watching these clips for decades, if not longer to come.
thank you for your efforts whoever you are, dark room dwelling film nerds
Thanks Sky Valley. Dark room film nerds reporting for duty!
@@NFSAFilms A great reply is further saluted
Times were simpler then, more carefree, trams ruled before the dirty diesel buses replaced them. No self respecting man or woman would be seen in public, back then, without a nice hat. Thank you NFSA, your efforts are much appreciated.
Thanks, Dave. Glad you enjoyed the film.
Wow! NFSA you have excelled again. You can tell how much work has gone into restoring this footage. Magnificent time capsule of Sydney life returning after WW1. Thank you .
Thank you and you're welcome.
Thanks NFSA, invaluable film and great work to restore it ( and thanks for making it available here). Bravo!
I disagree... Sorry, but there are dozens of CZcamsrs out there, restoring, stabilising, colourising and digitising, along with FPS correction, old videos from 19th and early 20th centuries. All this with next to no budget. The NFSA should be the gold standard. Especially if you keep appealing for more government funding, as you do. This is just looks like you found an old film of Sydney; quickly digitised it (not even in 4K) and uploaded to YT. Also, no sound of the period. Do better, please.
You're welcome. Thanks for letting us know you enjoyed the film.
What a beautiful film thanks so much for sharing. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
You're welcome.
Sydney was such an interesting place with shops and pubs everywhere. So many buildings of distinction too before the developers and architects destroyed it with their bland high rise lacking in all merit other than the ability to claim my building is bigger and higher and blander than yours. Hardly any pubs or Australians or Australian made goods left in the place.
There’s a very large proportion of buildings that are still there today.
They call it 'the anywhere landscape' i believe.....
Beautiful architecture and that's how (as a Sydneysider) I recognised most of these spots.
The buildings of today's Sydney- soulless, lifeless, classless. All for a quick buck.
Thank you NFSA. Job well done. ❤
I was born in 1960, kind of at the tail-end of the - well, I guess you could call it the "old-fashioned" era. I still have vague memories of riding with Mum on the trams in Sydney, but the days of hat-wearing and getting dressed up to go into town were dying out even then. I used to love Sydney, up until about the very early 80s, but then it started to change in a number of ways. I moved up to the Mid-North Coast about 15 years ago and never looked back. I couldn't bear to live in that traffic-choked, overcrowded, soulless city anymore and I'll be happy if I never set foot in it again. It's a shame my feelings toward Sydney soured, but that's life. This video is wonderful. It was shot somewhat before my time, but there were enough vestiges of that period remaining when I was a little kid to spark a few personal recollections. Many thanks!
Great to hear your perspective Markus! To give you a totally different perspective. I was born in 1994. Sydney has significantly changed by this stage. As a lover of photography and history, I do wish I was born in the 1940s, 50's and 60's, to live the life of what I think was a very different time. The era, or the AGE of discovery, invention, buildings, magnificent landmarks, nil social media and a simpler time.
Exactly.
5:20 Though only shown on a few frames, there is vision of three women dressed in white and a set of cricket stumps. In the late-1920s there was surge of interest in women’s cricket and one place they would play and practice was on The Domain which had pitches up until WW2.
Fascinating. Some scenes have barely changed. Others are almost unrecognizable.
I grew up in Sydney's outer suburbs from the 1960s to the late 1990s. I attended the Christian Bros High School opposite the Domain and next to the St. Mary's Cathedral during the 1970s. I would travel to St, James station on the old Red Rattlers and gawk at all those lovely attractive young female office workers commuting and smoking on the train. The city is not the same today as it was back in those days. I now live in another state up north.
And once 2000 hit n the Olympics came to town it was the start of the end sadly.
Amazing. I love old films about Sydney. ❤
A beautiful city still, it appears to be dated pre 1923, else the harbour bridge would have been shown. Thanks so much for the effort you make to keep our history alive.
The bridge work started 28 july1923, finished 19 Jan.1932
Construction of the bridge started in ‘23, but I’m certain at least some of the cars seen were built mid to late 20’s
Beautiful restoration thank you NFSA Films.
Thank you.
Loved seeing my home town as it was 95 years ago and trying to guess what streets and buildings it showed.
Great work, thank you!
You're welcome.
@@NFSAFilms great 👍 video thanks 🙏
Watching this and then thinking nearly everyone in these clips , has died , maybe a couple still walk the earth
Nope.
Maybe if they were a baby in arms. I always think that same thing.
My grandmother was alive then and still alive today
@@gibbethoskins8621 how old is she now?
Just the kids playing cricket would all be over 100 if they were alive today. Even if you were a newborn baby when this was made, you'd be 95 now.
The Sydney I grew up in the 1970’s and 1980’s bears more of a resemblance to Sydney as seen in this film than Sydney now- cars and transport not withstanding.
@6:10 The young Jackson they refer to is Cricket Legend Archie Jackson who would sadly die only 5 years later at the age of 23.
It was 90 years this past 18th February 2023 that crowds gathered outside Archies home in Wrights Road Drummoyne to escort him to Field of Mars cemetery. My Dad, also from Drummoyne, amongst them. Ponsford, Woodfull, Bradman, Oldfield, McCabe all pallbearers. It was a big event.
Wow. This was incredible.
It was too early for the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House.
Thanks for posting
Congratulations NFSA for this marvellous time capsule. You are doing great and important work for future generations to study, marvel and enjoy.
Back to work!
Thank you.
And, at least in the case of architects, to emulate.
Thanks for making another great bit of history more available.
At 6:42 good to see these multi story residences called flats. Lately real estate people have convinced a new generation that they are apartments to avoid the negative connotations flats developed over the years.
And that 'apartment' is an Americanism which has crept in over the last couple of decades.
Maybe there were enough 'flats' for everyone back in those days ? There were plenty of 'slums' as well though - not shown here
The dress code back then was a reflection of their level of moral integrity, in contrast to today.
Moral integrity? Gauged by how they dress?
There are plenty of "modestly dressed" freaks in the world today who have demonstrated plenty of questionable moral integrity.
Sydney used to look beautiful. Shame what is become now. Hopefully it can one day reclaim its sandstone beauty
Decent architecture ,was a pleasure to see ,the 'faster Trams' great ,and vey few parking meters and traffic lights (a necessity now days), it shoed just how laid back it was prior to Oct 1929
Just imagine those "Red Rattlers" were on the line right up to 1994!
Wow look 👀 how people dressed in those days.
Sydney looked like a nicer place back then. It's a great pity most of its old architecture disappeared to make way for the concrete, glass and steel ugliness of today.
Thank you for a great glimpse of Sydney in the past
Amazing film...love all the footage...the cars are amazing & the fashions, & everyone wearing hats.
6:08 The ‘Jackson’ referred to in relation to the young cricketers relates to batsman Archie Jackson who was more famous as an emerging superstar in 1928 than Don Bradman who would soon come to eclipse him. Jackson tragically died of tuberculosis in 1932 at the age of 23.
Great info - thanks!
@@NFSAFilms No worries 😌
Much nicer then than now, that’s for sure.
Those Sydney and Manly ferries were still there in the 1960's although they had been converted from steam to diesel.
... and _far_ more reliable than the jokes they have been replaced with. Scandalous!
Great footage. Thanks for posting.
What a city ❤️
Most of those buildings are still there.
... which is a wonder given that Whelan the Wrecker was seen everywhere in the 1970s and 1980s.
What you actually mean is that a small number of the buildings have survived the past 95 years
I miss the old city of sydney before the greedy corrupt developers took over.
Except it’s not the developers, it’s the politicians and their town planners who feed the greed of property developers.
The developers in the 30s were also out to profit. The greedy buyers were less greedy. And what was stamp duty? Land tax? Land was abundant in those distant suburbs like Strathfield 😊 or that difficult Noth Sydney
Watch this film for it shows a way of Australia life that will never come again.
Wonderful vision.
So sad the era of mass hat wearing has now gone, when people went out they dressed up and not down like today
My father wore a hat to work in the CBD until the late 1960s.
I remember those toast rack trams very well, but the cars pre-date me a bit!
The red rattler train carriages outlived them.
George st busier then than now. The city is quite these days.
Everyone shopping on line. Not me.
absolutely not true.
06:41: quite interesting, since it was after the 30s and 40s that flats suiting housing choice and organic density were banned Australia-wide for no good reasons.
Hopefully we can get back to that potential for egality, with not just towers of the business district and sprawl of suburbia, but human growth and accessibility
Late 20s I would say looking at the fashions.
Seeing all those young boys playing cricket, most probably wound up fighting in ww2, I wonder how many got through it.
Funny to think that life is simply a stage where we all play a part, some just play longer parts and good part, others get a horrible part to play.
One thing for certain, non of us are immortal.
Everyone in public well dressed and wearing a hat, not like the absolute slobs who go out in public today.
Pretty sure that was Sprngfield Lodge in the Cross towards the end looking a bit classier then
Fabulous fillum
Wearing a suit to the beach!
Wonderful bit of history! Surprised by the length of womens skirts. Did not know below the knees was already a thing in 1928.
Awesome!
In 5 years AI will be able to clean up all the dust and scratches, add colour and probably sound. That'd be something to behold too!
No doubt. There is plenty of AI in video production now. All of these things can be done manually as well but do so really means producing a different film from the original.
In 1928 - Sydney's population was apparently 1.1 million. 20% of today's. It had suburbs from the north to south, east to the west and regional centres across NSW. But the footage shows busy beaches, busy streets and a similar amount of people, traffic and population density as today. It also shows high rise inner city living and property sprawl across the harbour again with what appears as similar housing density. All this 100 years ago. How is that possible ? And today, Sydney's "busy-ness" is boosted by very large numbers of visitors, tourists and people passing through. So often his-story is not our story. Did Sydney have more people in 1928 than is reported ? Why would its hectic streets, harbour and beaches be as busy then as it is today ?
Fairly simple explanation. I assume you know the reason but I will bite. Sydney was a much smaller and very different place then. The now middle ring of suburbs were still largely farmland. Business and shopping were concentrated in the city with multiple large and medium department stores and thousands of smaller stores, many theatres and pubs on every corner. Manufacturing surrounded in the inner suburbs. Thats all gone now. Like the comment below by Markus Andrew the changes started in the 1960's and as you say the population has been largely replaced by overseas students, visitors and migrants. Sydney city is a very much diminished city.
I was checking out the truck at 2.34 with its skinny solid tyres and Brakeless front end when I noticed a Dog travelling down the road perched on its roof! Obviously the drivers dog and as the truck only had rear wheel brakes as just about all only had in the era, the trucks slow top speed and lethargic speed retardation would mean that the canine would not have to worry sliding down the road in an emergency stop!
I'm assuming the frames per second on this film would have had to been calibrated and adjusted for the correct speed playback?
Watching it at 0.75 playback speed makes things look more natural and allows you to take in more of the detail in my opinion.
Thanks for your comment. Films from this era were generally hand cranked in the camera at around 18 frames per second. After we scan them they are interpolated at 24 fps. It's definitely not an exact science though.
if you ever need sound design to bring this to life IM me
What was that guy doing on the outside at the front of the bus whilst it was moving @ around 7.07 ? Cleaning the windscreen or changing the sign ? Imagine seeing that today .
Thanks for pointing that out. I watched that carefully and couldn’t work it out. Whatever he’s doing, it seems to be a bit dangerous. The unions and health and safety people would be a bit upset if they saw that today. I was watching a policeman directing traffic earlier in the film. My grandfather used to do that on a busy intersection in Wellington, NZ. A truck drove part trailing a rope, it caught his leg and dragged him along the road. He survived. Having survived a few near misses on building sites over many years I firmly believe that everyone has the right to go home after work and not have to spend four hours with the undertaker, so I appreciate the work that the authorities do in the name of safety.
Obviously it was the conductor changing the destination sign to Railway.
1:23 Kind of looks like Flinders Street Station in Melbourne from that angle
Alfred Street
2:42 does anyone no wat type of car/truck this was wit a house on the back of it or do you think they were just moving the house lol
05:19 - way ahead of their time
Yeah that’s true.
These days we dress like crap. 🤣
in the days before nylon, everyone wearing natural fibres.
Wool, cotton, hemp, flax, linen, silk. Felt hats, leather shoes.
Well before our plastic society.
@@iansings7428 And then I went Vegan. 😁
Comfort over style, really.
Looking good didn't make people any less of an a$$hole.
@@iansings7428 My pure wool knit jumper from 1985, not a single hint of pilling, nor a single frey. Looks like new after 35 years. Same with the apartments, beautiful quality art deco, built to last, not this meriton rubbish of today.
2:42 Anyone know what street this is?
George St
Looking east on King from George Street
My How things have changed for the Worse
Such a shame politicians let developers vandalise this beautiful city.
before the depression
And when the English chained indigenous Australians.
Graceful flats? Couldn't say that about todays functional boxes!
Kind of wished the city had implemented rules similar to Paris to reduce a "wall" near the waterfront. High rises at the waterfront boxed everyone else in. It would be nice to have a "step" height requirement so buildings closer to the waterfront can't be higher than buildings behind, creating a step towards the city centre. Also those trams look nice. The city centre should have less car centric design. Australia no longer build its own cars, there's no need to artificially support such industry anymore.
Not a bare head in sight .
I said it before born in the wrong time. To many high rises now not enough homes
How to ruin a city. Sydney is an eyesore these days, full of cheap, soulless and ugly modern buildings. They should have kept the old city and made a new city as they do in many countries so that they don’t turn into tackytown.
Yes. Every city in the world except Sydney has not modernised.
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Why hasn’t this been restored, colourised, Motion stabilised, etc?
Exactly. Sorry, but there are dozens of CZcamsrs out there, restoring, stabilising, colourising and digitising, along with FPS correction, old videos from 19th and early 20th centuries. All this with next to no budget. The NFSA should be the gold standard. Especially if you keep appealing for more government funding, as you do. This is just looks like you found an old film of Sydney; quickly digitised it (not even in 4K) and uploaded to YT. Also, no sound of the period. Do better, please.
because that's not what NFSA does. Other users on CZcams do.
You should do it if its not a big deal to do??
Are you volunteering?
... and we should modify all remaining Stradivarius Viola also. Why change something because a nincompoop like you likes colourisation??? It's not broken, it doesn't need to be restored. That it exists here, in digital reality is enough. It's not broken, it doesn't need work. It's morphed into art.
Sorry, but there are dozens of CZcamsrs out there, restoring, stabilising, colourising and digitising, along with FPS correction, old videos from 19th and early 20th centuries. All this with next to no budget. The NFSA should be the gold standard. Especially if you keep appealing for more government funding, as you do. This is just looks like you found an old film of Sydney; quickly digitised it (not even in 4K) and uploaded to YT. Also, no sound of the period. Do better, please.
It is interesting to watch as it is. What right have you to be critical when, like me, you are watching this for free with no fee required. If you don’t like it, Mr. Troll, switch to something else.
I enjoyed watching it in silence, and appreciate that that is what film footage in the day looked like. Had this not been uploaded I would not have just seen a film of Sydney in 1928. Why the beef? I take it you're not into classic films of the period, like Keaton, Chaplin, Lloyd and so on.
Hello - the film is presented in 4K. Some browsers don't always show this. Maybe check what you're using.
Looks like American streets of that time, chaotic, no greenery, oversized buildings... European cities look so much nicer.
It looks wonderful.
You did see greenery did you not watch it all?
@@wombatlittle1 it was black and white greenery
@@tompchromedome Ha ha. Yes.