This is the Life. Australia And Your Future No 2.
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- čas přidán 11. 02. 2023
- From the Film Australia Collection of the National Film and Sound Archive.
Made by the National Film Board 1947. Directed by Catherine Duncan. This is the Life describes the daily lives of single working women employed in industry in Australia in the 1940s. Young women are shown beginning the day in their homes, then cycling or taking a tram to the Returned Soldiers Mill in Geelong, Victoria - a thriving textile centre. We see them in the mill environment then, work done, enjoying their leisure - dancing, playing sport, hiking and shopping. The film also outlines the pay, sick leave and holiday conditions to which the women are entitled. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
And not a McDonalds in sight, the good old days.
My Grandmother was a teacher some years before this film was made. She had to resign because women couldn't be married and work in the public service. She was permitted to finish the school term but declined because that would mean she couldn't play mid-week tennis!
Loving the schmaltziness. This was the dream sold to my parent's generation.
Thank you, as always, for preserving this history 👍
These women were the backbone of the development of Australia. They make it seem so easy but in reality, from my mother’s accounts, it was long shifts as a registered nurse as well as keeping both my sister and I in a good standard of living. I give these women in the 60’s a big thank you for their dedication and service to that generation.
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Amazing, all fit and healthy. No phones and gadgets!
At around 1:00 keep an eye out for the cow casually walking down the road! You’ve done it again NFSA! I just love the speed of life back then, and no mobile phones.
Nothing says casual like a cow having a stroll down the road.
Or McDonald’s and the like crippling the nations health
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The person who narratives this film would rolling in his grave to now see Australia in the future. My mum use to dress like these women til the late 60’s
My mother is 91 and grew up in SA and she recalls running for the time clock or her pay would be docked ! The weekly dances 💃 made her smile. She thoroughly enjoyed watching this 👍
That's awesome! Thanks for letting us know.
I’m going to start talking like this narrator.
You know, you see theses films and you think was it really like this ? Then you talk to people that lived it and you get a very different story. I think life may have been more simple then but work was tougher.
It was very real - I’m 51 and I was born in Australia but have lived in America most of my life - but the similarities between Australia & the United States back then were very similar - I live in the Deep South and it’s a time warp - it’s like going back 50 years -
some of these movies do paint a rosy picture.. possibly produced to be screened overseas to potential migrants.. however by far the majority.. we have lost all our lovely manufacturing places .. lucky to be able to buy any Australian clothing now days and things like that.. fridges , washing machines.. cars.. 🥹😳🐴
Exactly my thoughts.
Still better days. Then today.
@@larazeesk7080 have you been back to Australia since ? I much rather live there than here in America.
wonderful! ❤❤❤
Give me a time machine.
We're it! Welcome aboard.
Curly hair was definitely fashionable !
Yes, my mother's mother curled her hair in rags most nights! Horrible! 😧
Thanks again NFSA. What year was this film made ? I’m thinking late 1940’s ?The line referring to “ girls over 21” certainly made me gasp !! If they are still around today, they would be “ girls in their 90’s” !!
Released in 1947 Tess. Thanks for watching.
WOW so much to look forward to,
Most young Australians dream of workplace with protections and entitlements like these women have
Love the 4k scan!
Thanks Michael.
Great 👍 video 😊
Hows riding the pushbikes with 3 inch heels, and a helmet would have done havoc to that hair.
And I hope that girl that went to hospital was OK. She seemed to be deteriorating quickly.
That Mill looks like a deathtrap with all those open mechanicals.
Yes! Unguarded chains and wheels with handles sticking out spinning close to the worker's heads. One slip and you're brain damaged. Lucky they had that nice hospital nearby 😢
They were the best generation
5.22 will get you an assault charge these days 😢
Lol funny
Women. Loot at them. Walking and talking at the same time. Come on girls, those letters aren't going to type themselves.
WHS drama in that factory.
At least there was none of that dirty s3x stuff happening back then...
funny irony. I was alive and we both know that lots of hancky pancki took place. [ps On the upside, The Commonwealth Censored was hard at work]
ya think lol
Apart from perhaps Geelong, I can't say anywhere else mentioned ever became the secondary manufacturing powerhouses the capitalist optimists envisioned.
"Girls"
These were promotional films shown overseas to attract migrants. Life, as shown here, is not actually a true representation, with many living in poverty. I was a small child in this era, and yes, life was simpler in some ways, but school and work were more demanding.
More demanding than what?
You realise that in 1947 there was food rationing in post war Britain. This clearly looked like paradise. Just search for 1947 Gorbals, to see the folks they were targetting.
Their husbands all died of lung cancer, asbestosis or alcoholism, and their great-grandkids are the eshays that hang around at Corio Village. Some future Australia turned out to be.
civilizations make mistakes, we either learn or perish
Try a friday night in Liverpool.
Doing a survey 'Plz let us no where your from in this lucky country in the comment section plz. #Cheers. "Me 'Sydney.
"Me 'Sydney.
Propaganda at its best - luvvit
Would have been shown in UK cinemas to attract female migrants.
tfw you realise your parents had their dose of brainwashing too
but do you realise which specific group of people are responsible for that brainwashing both then and now today?
Propaganda for the slave class
Perhaps, what was the alternative in a similar town back in 1947?
and we haven't learned a thing
Sold ! How do I apply to go immigrate to this country ? 😀🦘🇦🇺👍