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I remember the gracious city .. of my childhood ... Now .. oh dear ...

No sound?

Emotional

Unfortunately now, wheat and overweight people have taken over from meat and sheep farming in Australia. New Zealand still know what's good for them.

I remember Rundle Street, before it was turned into Rundle Mall. The first street in the world I understand ever to have been been changed so. That was in 1976.

Surely the election was in 1962, not 1961?

My beautiful Adelaide, gave me the best childhood ever.From Mt. Lofty to Glenelg, was my playground. 💖💖

Sir Tom was the best Labour premier we ever had. Although “Liberal” , his values were more labour than liberal .

They haven't really done much to the city in the last 80 years it all looks the same

Really interesting to see this footage- especially of north terrace and the railway station, much of which hasn't changed a whole lot. That, and the fact that it still talks about the four lakes of Mount Gambier, which now only has two, as Browne's Lake and Leg of Mutton Lake have long dried up

The gentleman second on Dunstan's left is my grandfather, David McKee. I miss him greatly.

OMFG Tom'd be spinning in his grave with the amount of doo dahs in Adelaide now, we should be ashamed in 2023!! We should have about 80 odd parliamentarians under the Dunstan/Bannon type ideals, but under the Rann/Weatherall ideals, we don't because they're so more conservative than socialist, don't get Bourkey started on Malinauskas. That might keel haul the entire show!! Bourkey might go and have another meeting with the legitimate SA premier up at his open air office again at some stage, if the woke sad people don't know where his office is, they might feel montefiore hill is the woke statue to tear down, anyway all good!

Sad to say, all abandoned now with years of coal left. Save the world, burn a greenie.🇦🇺

This makes me feel homesick.

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1:25 With a seam of coal forty foot thick and half a mile long you will hit resource depletion in no time. Consider how much a block of coal the size of a speedboat is worth and how long does it take to burn at a conventional 1920s - 1950s era Australian power station.

10:50 If you have 11 members in the House of Representatives and 10 Senators in the Federal Parliament in the early 1960s then yes it is a big state with a capital city that already had 600,000 in population by the mid-1930s. Brisbane only reached 600,000 in the mid-1960s but was established as a penal settlement in 1823 despite being older than Adelaide and Melbourne. Then again you obviously have to take into account that it wasn't initially designated to function in the role of a capital city. The Northern Territory only had one member in the House of Representatives and three senators in 1983 so it is obviously a long journey to statehood following separation from South Australia.

Nice to see Linnets Island Resort guests pulling in large whiting at American River, Kangaroo Island. Thankyou.

The flashing neon signs at the end look really good! Makes the city look more interesting at night than it does now. The footage of the city lights with the fast moving lights from cars was a bit on the surreal and abstract side - could have been taken anywhere. Quite creative for a government film like this

Iv'e been to Adelaide, I don't remember any trains that travelled to Mount Lofty. interesting

Gorgeous 🥰🥰 Wish it could have been recorded today in colour. Would have been breathtaking.

Torrens Lake

My Great great great grandfather was on the Buffalo👍 Sounds like this was narrated by the late Ron Sullivan.

I miss those days... I'm not from them, but I have a rather romantic view of what they were like... and I know there was not so nice things about those days, but I do miss how refined people were and the music & architecture of that day. Modern architecture is plain and horrible and most of our modern music could hardly be classified as music...

Fascinating footage. Should be River Torrens rather than "Torrens Lake". And I believe we saw Morialta Falls, not "Gorge". Still a lovely city.

Thanks for uploading this to TH-cam....keep'em coming, please.

Wonderful record.

Found pics of country Horsham vic 1908 etc 1920s .

It struck me how class conscious society was back then. "the great estates" (houses for the rich). the great students of learning from St Peters and PAC (who would also be the ones to go onto university because it was all upfront fees back then and kids from public schools probably couldnt afford it. I'm glad that is one thing that has changed in our modern times. I am currently sitting in my housing trust home immediately across the road from PAC, (which I could never have afforded to send my sons to), and I have just come back from visiting my son, Doctor Hayes, because today, everyone can go to university.

And now the trams are back in North Terrace

Ah, the days when you were the only car on the road during a Sunday drive through the Adelaide Hills.

great footage!

I remembered this video when I was in the city today, I stood at the spot that was filmed at 4:50 (on Flinders st near Victoria Square) and it was kind of surreal to look at it again on my phone and see premier Playford parking his car right there almost 60 years ago. The facade of building he walked into and the one next to it still looks very much the same.

The Earliest Known SANFL ( Football) footage of Australian Rules in Adelaide, between South Adelaide and Port Adelaide Football Clubs at Adelaide Oval- ( SANFL Grand Final ) and in Colour ! ( Film had been taken of SAFA/SAFL games as early as 1908, however none has come to light at this time.)

You’re almost ready to accept Mr. Announcer Voice as being the guy in the film (unlikely as it seems) until “…they water-ski, on Browne’s Lake…”. Um, no that’s the Valley Lake.

Excellent footage. I wonder if there is more from earl;y last century. Adelaide was a beautiful city but over the last 5 decades greedy developers and companies have destroyed a lot of our heritage buildings and architecture. The saddest loss being the magnificent Exhibition Hall on North terrace, bulldozed to maker way for an ugly plaza and underground carpark for Adelaide University.

Someone at the State Records SA cannot spell the name of a South Australian political party, it is not Labour that is the way the party in the United Kingdom is spelled, the Australian political party is spelled " LABOR " The ALP Australian Labor Party. Ps nice video.

Oh yes, Adelaiderns had it ever so good back then, full-time employment, much much better public transport Trains & Trams went everywhere now you need a car. The 51 Hotels are now Pokie Venues or gone completely. Yep Ye Old Adelaide now has triple the population a great place to stand still and just grow old.

a wonderful record of the beautiful state of SA

Labor.

Oh Adelaide was so beautiful ... the trees, the suburban gardens, the orchards in the hills ...

We are soo very lucky to have recordings such as this.

In 1935, women wore ankle-length dresses in Adelaide.

Present-day residents of Paradise will perhaps see their suburb as market garden from the aerial shot.

What's more, the films were made in 35mm which would bring out Hurley's cinematography. Why show in reduced quality of 16mm?

It should not be shown as a silent film like this, love it or otherwise. It was made as a sound film. Where is the companion film that Hurley made about the outback SA??

.thats a long time ago , great footage

It sure has changed a lot! And yet, not at all.

Wow, nice to see a young Don Dunstan there at the table.