Amazing footage. My grandfather came all the way from Dublin to Melbourne on a boat to see the Olympic Games. He met my grandmother here and never left. If it wasn't for the Olympic Games I would not be alive. I hope Melbourne one day hosts the Olympic Games again.
Also from the quality of the movie negative or print used.This was filmed to movie standards by professional film makers using movie standard large format film with movie standard cameras and lenses. For showing in movie theatres. Even when you see high image quality music videos from the sixties, that is almost always because it was shot like a movie or from a movie. Like the clips used from the 1965 movie Pop Gear such as the Animals house of the rising Sun.
the quality of this video is phenomenal! and just look at the how much dignity and class ppl had then. all dressed so beautifully and marching to proudly. nowadays they just roam all over whike waving jumping and taking selfies.......
This happened about two years before I was born, but I am always impressed with how classy in general people were back then. As a child, I can remember people dressing like this, women in smart dresses and men in suits or sport jackets and hats.
I'm loving the outfits too, but martjek is right. It's a facade that hides a culture of extreme repression and intolerance. Nowadays, the jumping, smiling, waving and taking of pictures is a sign that our athletes are happy, proud and feel free to unapologetically be themselves. It's unfortunate that their happiness bothers some of you.
It doesn't show the Closing Ceremony "Parade of Athletes," with athletes of all nations marching as one team, a tradition that began during the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Jamie B im not commenting on people's morals or private opinions behind the scenes. Im just talking about people conducting themselves with more maturity and dignity when in public
1:29:20 I SAW INDONESIA 🇮🇩 IN A FEW SECOND... So happy, even we are not very important country back then, at least we can participate in Melbourne... ☺
My Dad went to see Betty at the age of 11 and now he is 78. I love this thank you. Can't wait to show my daughter who is 4. When the Brisbane Olympics is on she will be 12. Talk about full circle.
Andres Karel - Like new but I think it was digitally enhanced as this process is mentioned at the end credits. The 1938 drama "Gone With The Wind" also looks it was filmed today.
Also from the quality of the movie negative or print used.This was filmed to movie standards by professional film makers using movie standard large format film with movie standard cameras and lenses. For showing in movie theatres. Even when you see high image quality music videos from the sixties, that is almost always because it was shot like a movie or from a movie. Like the clips used from the 1965 movie Pop Gear such as the Animals house of the rising Sun.
I've watched all the "Official Olympic Film | Olympic History" from 1956 to 1980, and by FAAAR, THIS IS the BEST one of ALL!! TOTALLY worth watching and VERY educational!!!
Incredible the renovation of very old images. So much good the film, this event happened in a the completed in the world's history so all politics influence and military is on the games. Congratulations for this great work!
It was great to see the Legendary AL OERTER throw the discus. He was the surprise winner of the discus in 1956, 1960, 1964, and in 1968. There was no greater Olympian than he !!!!!
The Melbourne Olympics say my grandfather was 16 years old. The color images on this site are better than those recorded in the Tokyo Olympic Games (1964). Thank you very much.
@@gameguru1234 : A lot of shows in the 70s-90s were shot on videotape (not digitally) hence why they look the way that they do (and the quality of such footage is more or less fixed, unlike film which can be scanned at as high a resolution as one is willing). Most UK/Australian TV shows would have been shot on videotape with only some segments shot on film (usually exteriors).
at 23 minutes - Bill Neider, the US shot putter - he was the one who brought in the synthetic tracks we're familiar with today, at the '68 Olympics. Great year for Ireland - Ronnie Delaney in the 1500m. Hard to believe that's our last Olympic track gold
My Olympian bronze medalist cousin Josh Culbreath shown at 32:15 on the left with the dark schoolboy cap, and running in the 1-2-3 sweep Glenn Davis, Eddie Southern, and Josh Culbreath hurdle relay at 33:43. The first clean sweep of the Olympic Games was won by these hurdlers.
All the grand stands here have been demolished, some replaced twice since 1956, and the MCG ( Melbourne Cricket Ground) complex is even better now as one of the world great stadiums. The open air three tier grandstand was specially built for the games but is gone now. The (British) Commonwealth Games were held here in 2006 representing about 65 nations and 1/3 of humanity.
I used to swim at the State Championships and other swimming meets at the Stadium during the mid 1970s. I loved it - and could feel the history of the place. Great memories❤
A few factual mistakes but still a great high quality colour film that I did not know even existed until You Tube was invented. I dont remember the Olympics as I was only 4 years old then even though I am from Melbourne then and still am. However the best Olympic film is Lena Riefenstahl 1936 "Olympia " in black and white and also on You Tube in 2 X 90 minute parts.
3:45 The Batman diorama on the Bourke Street Coles is hilarious. "Doutigalla" or "Dutigalla" came from Batman mistaking an aboriginal woman's name for the name of their country.
This was the first participation from Malaya, just one year before the independence. And before it changed its name to Malaysia in 1963. As many as 33 athletes were qualified for the Games at that time. Thank you and congratulations for them.
I enjoyed it but it only covered track and field out of over 16 sports contested that year. No swimming, weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, shooting, boxing, basketball, etc, etc. Never the less, it is enjoyable and nice to watch film of O'brian and Oerter win their events.
@@isthatrubble The US swept the Women's 10M and went 1-2 in Women's 3M, with Pat McCormick having achieved a "double-double (winning both 3M and 10M at both the '52 and '56 Games), 1-2 on Men's 3M, and 2-3 in Men's 10M...There was plenty of video of this as well..but the focus wasn't there...and women got only about 10 minutes of footage/discussion in this film, and lots of the "commentary" was incredibly sexist :/
I saw Al Oerter in 1979 in UK. He was making a comeback for Moscow games and he was just under 70m and stronger than ever.Boycott ruined his potentially 5th gold, as other competitors were intimidated by his talent and power.
14:35 Australia won more than "several Gold Medals". Australia win 13 gold and came 3rd in the gold and overall medal count. The USSR came 1st in the gold and overall count and the USA 2nd in the gold and overall medal count. Well done USSR recovering from WW2 11 years earlier.
Fascinating colour footage. These Games would have been largely invisible to most of the world - satellite TV hadn't even been invented, meaning people around the world would have had to rely on radio commentary or coverage in the newspapers.
How is it possible that you missed out the "Blood in the Water match"? It happened that very olympic game and it was one of the most shocking moment of that whole olympic.
Much rather watch these old films instead of the 2016 Summer Olympics currently on. I am nostalgic for the old, kinder and gentler times. Also the Olympics meant a lot more when you had to be an amateur. I suppose the argument was that Soviet Block countries always had professional athletes.
Check out William Roy Kerslake. Wrestler on the usa team for. 52 56 and 60. He was my 2nd cousin and went on to design the Apollo rocket system for 1960s moonlaunch.
1:07:08 Gyarmati Olga gold medalist of 1948 London Olymics. The original coat of arms on her top. I wish this film had some footage of the famous waterpolo match between Hungary and USSR
Nice footage on the best film in Australia. Between The Melbourne 1956 on the XVI Olympiad and Sydney 2000 on the XXVII Olympiad were finished on Summer Olympics. There's only 8 more years to go to Brisbane 2032 on the XXXV Olympiad. Period.
With 1 million people in 1956 Melbourne is still a city not a town. Koalas are not bears. Duke not Dook narrator . Despite some problems, including sexism aimed at some female athletes, this film is excellent quality.
Marlene Ahrens Ostertag, de esos tantos alemanes que nacieron en Chile. Lanzadora de javalina y luego equitadora. Estando ya casada y con hijos comenzó a lanzar javalina. Jugaba a entrenar una hora al día, si hubiera entrenado como corresponde habria sido campeona del mundo. En su quinto lanzamiento hizo 50,38 m. Fue su mejor marca y la única chilena con una medalla olímpica. Ese record sudamericano duró hasta 1976 cuan do Marlene Dos Santos se lo batió.
The population of Melbourne also tripled over the next 30 years following the Olympics as it was stated to be around three million by 1987 within a tourism documentary about Melbourne which was released in 1987! :)
IMPRESIONANTE IMAGEN...FELICITO AL PERSONAL A CARGO DE LAS CÁMARAS Y A SU GRUPO ...POR HACER TAN PRECIOSO ME TRAJE DE LOS JUEGOS OLÍMPICOS MELBOURNE 1956...CONVERTIDO POSTERIORMENTE EN UN DOCUMENTAL PARA LA PANTALLA GRANDE....
very polished production; but in late Nov., these 'summer' Olympics were getting pretty close to winter for many - funny to see Christmas decorations in an Olympics setting
Dear Sir , Are available the video clips of India vs Australia, India vs Yugslovia , India vs Bulgeria football matches of Melbourne 1956 olympic Games ?
🇮🇩 Satu-satunya partisipasi timnas sepak bola Indonesia di kancah Olimpiade terjadi pada Olimpiade Melbourne (Australia) tahun 1956. Indonesia langsung lolos ke babak perempat final setelah Taiwan mengundurkan diri di babak kualifikasi. Saat itu Indonesia diperkuat Andi Ramang, legenda Indonesia yang diakui FIFA. Juga diperkuat kiper sekaligus kapten tim bernama Maulwi Saelan. Pasca memperkuat timnas, Maulwi Saelan ditunjuk sebagai ajudan pribadi Presiden Soekarno. Kiprah timnas sepak bola Indonesia di Olimpiade Melbourne 1956 langsung kandas di babak perempat final setelah takluk dari tim raksasa Uni Soviet yang diperkuat kiper legendaris, Lev Yashin. Selama pagelaran Olimpiade tersebut, Indonesia hanya bermain sebanyak dua kali melawan Uni Soviet. Pada pertandingan pertama, kedua tim bermain imbang 0-0. Saat itu belum ada aturan penalti sehingga pertandingan harus diulang. Sayangnya pada laga ulangan melawan Uni Soviet, Indonesia harus bertekuk lutut 4 gol tanpa balas. Timnas sepak bola Uni Soviet sendiri pada akhirnya berhasil merengkuh medali emas Olimpiade Melbourne 1956 setelah mengalahkan Yugoslavia dengan skor 1-0 di final. Ini juga menjadi medali emas Olimpiade pertama Uni Soviet dalam cabang sepak bola dan baru mereka peroleh lagi 32 tahun kemudian (Olimpiade Seoul 1988).
A stunning impression of a world forever lost: where there appears to be no such thing as Olympic 'security' beyond a few sailors and cops guiding people to seats, where athletes debarked busses and mixed into what was essentially a pre-opening garden party, where television would begin its slow (but not that slow!) remaking of the games in a complex morphology and syntax of image systems, and where the only overt political text was the bloody water polo semi-final between Hungary and the Soviet Union. Now we have Paris, strange and distant and delirious, with Plans A, B AND C for the opening ceremonies in case of trouble and most of us ever poised with a characteristic vigilance: what scandal, what unexpected thing, what terrible known unknown, what sensation awaits?
The Melbourne spectators are all well dressed and created a good impression with a large turn out at the various sports. Melbourne is the world most livable city, or 2nd most, every year in the 21st century. In a few decades it will be larger than Sydney if the current population increase continues. A nice temperate climate which is more Mediterranean in Summer.
more Mediterranean in summer? ... yeah but Melbourne in July/August is COLD and cannot host an Olympics ever again. You know it being the SUMMER Olympics.
@@analcommando1124- Brisbane could be the next Aussie host of the games. Why would Melbourne want them again as it has been there done that in 1956. The cost of running the games is very high with little financial return only the "glory" of staging them. Tokyo is a sad case currently due to CV-19.
@@adrianjackson2696 If you actually knew what you were talking about you'd know the IOC has streamlined the games in attempt to make the bidding cheaper, fairer and now GREATLY favours cities that already have infrastructure already built. The IOC has gone to great lengths to make the games cheaper and easier to host. Thats why cities like Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles and (most likely) Brisbane are winning the right to host games, because they have the infrastructure already built and the IOC is no longer looking at developing countries to host. And plenty of cities did well out of the summer games. LA in 84, Seoul 88, Sydney 2000, London 2012 were all successful. Even Atlanta in 1996 while not a great success wasn't a financial disaster and Barcelona 1992 was very successful as well. Few Olympics have been financial disasters. Thats a myth. As for Melbourne, they DID want to get the games again in 1996, a mere 40 years after hosting. One of the reasons Melbourne didn't even get close to hosting was that either Melbourne host the games later in the year like in 1956 or hold them during winter. Neither option was liked by the IOC or other countries and rightly so. A summer games in October means no NBA players for the basketball. A "summer" games in Melbourne in winter month of August is moronic. And Melbourne regardless if they wanted to or not CANNOT EVER HOST THE SUMMER GAMES. But for you to claim Melbourne has NEVER wanted to host the Olympics again is a lie.
@@analcommando1124 - Don't use condescending language in the first part of your post. I know what I am talking about.. I live in Melbourne and know a former athlete who was part of the 1996 bid. They definitely wanted the games but after all the loss saved Australia a lot of money. Later we had the excellent Commonwealth Games in 2006 that were better than the Olympics anyway. No cheating, doped up or big ego athletes from the USA, Russia or China as a bonus.
13:24, those Japanese really had some balls to do that only 11 years after WWII.....It may be unintentional to them, but that kind of salute is really easy to misunderstand. Even the commentary was speechless at that time......lololol
Amazing footage. My grandfather came all the way from Dublin to Melbourne on a boat to see the Olympic Games. He met my grandmother here and never left. If it wasn't for the Olympic Games I would not be alive. I hope Melbourne one day hosts the Olympic Games again.
Wait around for Brisbane 2032.
I think Brisbane better than Melbourne of the Olympics game.
@@mf-chung their gonna host some events in melbourne because of our facilties
@@mf-chung I don’t think so
うぅ！😂😂ひ
@@mf-chung
I live in Melbourne and this is blowing my mind seeing the times my Nanna and pa lived in.
Best footage I've seen of my dad carrying the Canadian flag! THANK YOU!
Sue Steckle Wait, your dad was the flag barrier of Canada?
GREGORY DWAYNE Co no he was the flag bearer ;)
Sue Steckle That’s what I said!
@@gregory_the_griffon Bearer, not barrier pinhead.
Victor Kreitner Yeah, Sorry. Pardon me, I got that mixed up.
The quality of this film is absolute amazing, it's not often I see other films except movies from this era with this quality.
Also from the quality of the movie negative or print used.This was filmed to movie standards by professional film makers using movie standard large format film with movie standard cameras and lenses.
For showing in movie theatres.
Even when you see high image quality music videos from the sixties, that is almost always because it was shot like a movie or from a movie. Like the clips used from the 1965 movie Pop Gear such as the Animals house of the rising Sun.
One of the best track and field movies I've ever seen.
Jesse Owen is called an old man by the narrator. He was in his 40's in 1956. 20 years earlier he was winning gold in Berlin in 1936.
More than just winning "gold", he won golds!
wow, the video quality is just awesome. i never knew that it was possible in 50's
The recording medium was film, not videotape. This is a digital restoration of the film.
Apparently the better it was looked after the Better it looks
True, I wonder if this was filmed in Vista Vision ( a film quality that was meant to compete with Television, Higher Quality Film in full Color).
Ofc it was. Technicolor was actually better than the digital mess of today.
Film has a resolution of at least 4k. Anything that used at least 35mm.
the quality of this video is phenomenal! and just look at the how much dignity and class ppl had then. all dressed so beautifully and marching to proudly. nowadays they just roam all over whike waving jumping and taking selfies.......
This happened about two years before I was born, but I am always impressed with how classy in general people were back then. As a child, I can remember people dressing like this, women in smart dresses and men in suits or sport jackets and hats.
Have to remember most of it is a facade, in private people were doing similar "fucked up" stuff as they are today...
I'm loving the outfits too, but martjek is right. It's a facade that hides a culture of extreme repression and intolerance. Nowadays, the jumping, smiling, waving and taking of pictures is a sign that our athletes are happy, proud and feel free to unapologetically be themselves. It's unfortunate that their happiness bothers some of you.
It doesn't show the Closing Ceremony "Parade of Athletes," with athletes of all nations marching as one team, a tradition that began during the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Jamie B im not commenting on people's morals or private opinions behind the scenes. Im just talking about people conducting themselves with more maturity and dignity when in public
1:29:20 I SAW INDONESIA 🇮🇩 IN A FEW SECOND... So happy, even we are not very important country back then, at least we can participate in Melbourne... ☺
13:06 there's Indonesia too
kan emng sukarno ngebet bgt sbg partisipan olimpiade dulu
My Dad went to see Betty at the age of 11 and now he is 78. I love this thank you. Can't wait to show my daughter who is 4. When the Brisbane Olympics is on she will be 12. Talk about full circle.
incredibly sharp color, considering this was filmed 60 years ago
Andres Karel - Like new but I think it was digitally enhanced as this process is mentioned at the end credits.
The 1938 drama "Gone With The Wind" also looks it was filmed today.
Utilizaban la mejor tecnología del momento amigo
Also from the quality of the movie negative or print used.This was filmed to movie standards by professional film makers using movie standard large format film with movie standard cameras and lenses.
For showing in movie theatres.
Even when you see high image quality music videos from the sixties, that is almost always because it was shot like a movie or from a movie. Like the clips used from the 1965 movie Pop Gear such as the Animals house of the rising Sun.
In 60s they had 70mm movies that record more than 16K lol
35 mm
I've watched all the "Official Olympic Film | Olympic History" from 1956 to 1980, and by FAAAR, THIS IS the BEST one of ALL!! TOTALLY worth watching and VERY educational!!!
Incredible the renovation of very old images. So much good the film, this event happened in a the completed in the world's history so all politics influence and military is on the games. Congratulations for this great work!
It was great to see the Legendary AL OERTER throw the discus. He was the surprise winner of the discus in 1956, 1960, 1964, and in 1968. There was no greater Olympian than he !!!!!
The Melbourne Olympics say my grandfather was 16 years old. The color images on this site are better than those recorded in the Tokyo Olympic Games (1964). Thank you very much.
It’s amazing how they all March in sync during the country parade, it’s so much more casual these days
man, this is crazy! the quality is amazing. Honestly didnt know they had such good quality back in the day
Uf TH-cam se the credits at the end, they say it had a restauration work made by international olympic committee. It is totally amazing!
Have you seen the colour film "Gone With The Wind" (1939). It like it was made this year production wise.
Film is incredible. The Digital world is great, but there's a reason why a lot of TV shows from the 90's look worse than shows from the 60's.
@@gameguru1234 : A lot of shows in the 70s-90s were shot on videotape (not digitally) hence why they look the way that they do (and the quality of such footage is more or less fixed, unlike film which can be scanned at as high a resolution as one is willing). Most UK/Australian TV shows would have been shot on videotape with only some segments shot on film (usually exteriors).
at 23 minutes - Bill Neider, the US shot putter - he was the one who brought in the synthetic tracks we're familiar with today, at the '68 Olympics. Great year for Ireland - Ronnie Delaney in the 1500m. Hard to believe that's our last Olympic track gold
Wow having the olympics in my home state is pretty amazing
27:41 holy smoke
+Yanick Norman :D
No smoking in the MCG now.
Now, _that's_ a cigar.
@@RaymondHng Wonder if that was a Havana cigar? Haha probably not considering they were illegal to have unless he had connections.
@@victorkreitner754 Yeah, people in 1950s Australia were very compliant with modern American laws.
Merci infiniment de cette rétrospective des Olympiades de Melbourne 1956 tout en couleur, merci à vous 👍😉
My Olympian bronze medalist cousin Josh Culbreath shown at 32:15 on the left with the dark schoolboy cap, and running in the 1-2-3 sweep Glenn Davis, Eddie Southern, and Josh Culbreath hurdle relay at 33:43. The first clean sweep of the Olympic Games was won by these hurdlers.
Love the marathon sequence.
All the grand stands here have been demolished, some replaced twice since 1956, and the MCG ( Melbourne Cricket Ground) complex is even better now as one of the world great stadiums. The open air three tier grandstand was specially built for the games but is gone now. The (British) Commonwealth Games were held here in 2006 representing about 65 nations and 1/3 of humanity.
I remember my school sports events there in the 70s and the Olympics pool
Melbourne the top sports in Australia
I used to swim at the State Championships and other swimming meets at the Stadium during the mid 1970s. I loved it - and could feel the history of the place. Great memories❤
Great fun to watch this. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
I haven't seen such high-quality video of these games before. Brilillant !!
The MCG is the Mecca of Australian sport. Very historic stadium and every Victorian lets you know about it!
Wow! I just like, these old videos.
my mom just turned 1 and my dad was only months old! lol craaaazy!
25:08 I just realized they already have the score board like this in 1956.
My grandpa was at the stadium watching Danielsen break that javelin world record...
My late old man was six years old the year it was filmed.
A few factual mistakes but still a great high quality colour film that I did not know even existed until You Tube was invented. I dont remember the Olympics as I was only 4 years old then even though I am from Melbourne then and still am.
However the best Olympic film is Lena Riefenstahl 1936 "Olympia " in black and white and also on You Tube in 2 X 90 minute parts.
I am so glad that the athletes can March in more relaxed nowadays. They can actually have fun walking in and not have to be so ridged.
The narrator says that USA has 20 times the population of Australia . Now it would be 13-14 times
3:45 The Batman diorama on the Bourke Street Coles is hilarious. "Doutigalla" or "Dutigalla" came from Batman mistaking an aboriginal woman's name for the name of their country.
Magnificent Colour photography!
This was the first participation from Malaya, just one year before the independence. And before it changed its name to Malaysia in 1963. As many as 33 athletes were qualified for the Games at that time. Thank you and congratulations for them.
Priceless Olympic History Film.
I was born that year,10 Feb 56.I would be crawling never mind running.Also have a Olympic 1956 Commerative biscuit tin,
What a beautiful film of the Melbourne olimpic games
I enjoyed it but it only covered track and field out of over 16 sports contested that year. No swimming, weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, shooting, boxing, basketball, etc, etc. Never the less, it is enjoyable and nice to watch film of O'brian and Oerter win their events.
I wonder if the americans didn't win as many medals in other events.........
@@isthatrubble The US swept the Women's 10M and went 1-2 in Women's 3M, with Pat McCormick having achieved a "double-double (winning both 3M and 10M at both the '52 and '56 Games), 1-2 on Men's 3M, and 2-3 in Men's 10M...There was plenty of video of this as well..but the focus wasn't there...and women got only about 10 minutes of footage/discussion in this film, and lots of the "commentary" was incredibly sexist :/
I'm from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
I am from Melbourne too but only 4 years old in 1956.
I saw Al Oerter in 1979 in UK. He was making a comeback for Moscow games and he was just under 70m and stronger than ever.Boycott ruined his potentially 5th gold, as other competitors were intimidated by his talent and power.
1:34 Introduction
7:46 Inauguration of the games
11:11 Parade of Nations
17:34 The Melbourne Cricket Ground (athletics venue)
19:30 Men's 3000 m steeplechase (athletics)
20:00 Men's 100 m: Semifinal 2 (athletics)
21:38 Men's 100 m: Semifinal 1 (athletics)
22:24 Men's shot put (athletics)
24:28 Men's 100 m: Final (athletics)
25:53 Men's triple jump (athletics)
26:41 Men's 10000 m (athletics)
31:18 Olympic Village
33:31 Men's 400 m hurdles (athletics)
35:52 Men's discus throw (athletics)
36:23 Olympic officials
38:06 Men's 800 m (athletics)
41:05 Athletes in their free time
43:07 Men's 200 m (athletics)
44:08 Men's high jump and 110 m hurdles (athletics)
48:55 Night life
49:53 Men's sprint (cycling)
50:18 Wightlifting, various events
50:53 Wrestling, various events
51:07 Boxing, various events
51:44 Lake Wendouree, Ballarat
52:41 Men's single sculls (rowing)
53:27 Men's double sculls (rowing)
The quality of the film is really amazing - but it must be remastered in the last few years.
It was digitally restored in 2014 as listed in the ending credits.
@10:00 probably the firmest salute ive ever seen
Awesome film, that was a nice watch Olympics looked so different back then.
I can’t believe this is Mcg (Melbourne Cricket Ground) even 60 years later
14:35 Australia won more than "several Gold Medals". Australia win 13 gold and came 3rd in the gold and overall medal count. The USSR came 1st in the gold and overall count and the USA 2nd in the gold and overall medal count. Well done USSR recovering from WW2 11 years earlier.
Yeah the narration/writing is pretty dismissive of Australia in general.
Fascinating colour footage. These Games would have been largely invisible to most of the world - satellite TV hadn't even been invented, meaning people around the world would have had to rely on radio commentary or coverage in the newspapers.
You can't see it from the angle they showed but the torch bearer got absolutely scorched when he lit the cauldron. Stuck his arm too far in.
A time when Olympics was for the amature. Now with high technology and stuff it's all changed
im a melbournian and my grandmother saw this in person. pretty cool to think about.
This video is from the Olympics of 1956 ? The video's quality unbelievably clear !!
The quality benefit of 35mm film and professional production like feature movies of the time.
What a great track meet! ....Think they'll ever bring the rest of the Olympics to Melbourne?
The tradition of the athletes all running into the stadium together at the closing ceremony started at these Games
Looks like Paris is sending the athletes home the day after their event in the news lately.
How is it possible that you missed out the "Blood in the Water match"? It happened that very olympic game and it was one of the most shocking moment of that whole olympic.
Availability of film cameras wasn't always easy even then
Much rather watch these old films instead of the 2016 Summer Olympics currently on. I am nostalgic for the old, kinder and gentler times. Also the Olympics meant a lot more when you had to be an amateur. I suppose the argument was that Soviet Block countries always had professional athletes.
In the parade of athletes it looks so serious today it’s jumping around like a big party
WOW - they marched very well back then - love it !!
I love how they introduce the athletes
Amazing to watch this and see some things that haven’t changed
Everyone praises the innovative 1965 documentary about Tokyo 64' but everything innovative about that documentary is visibly present here already.
Worth every second.
Какая красивая история! В те добрые времена спорт был - мир!
Check out William Roy Kerslake. Wrestler on the usa team for. 52 56 and 60. He was my 2nd cousin and went on to design the Apollo rocket system for 1960s moonlaunch.
2:35 Middle Park were I live between the lake and the bay. There is my house on the extreme right of shot.
Владимир Куц просто красавчик !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5000 10000 олимпийский чемпион
1:07:08 Gyarmati Olga gold medalist of 1948 London Olymics. The original coat of arms on her top. I wish this film had some footage of the famous waterpolo match between Hungary and USSR
There are some footages from the water polo match but nothing special -- an ordinary match.
Nice footage on the best film in Australia. Between The Melbourne 1956 on the XVI Olympiad and Sydney 2000 on the XXVII Olympiad were finished on Summer Olympics. There's only 8 more years to go to Brisbane 2032 on the XXXV Olympiad. Period.
26:30 Elegante ADHEMAR FERREIRA DA SILVA vence no salto triplo glória do esporte brasileiro
Boooooo, almost our first gold :(
nice to see that this is in color
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With 1 million people in 1956 Melbourne is still a city not a town. Koalas are not bears. Duke not Dook narrator . Despite some problems, including sexism aimed at some female athletes, this film is excellent quality.
Marlene Ahrens Ostertag, de esos tantos alemanes que nacieron en Chile. Lanzadora de javalina y luego equitadora. Estando ya casada y con hijos comenzó a lanzar javalina. Jugaba a entrenar una hora al día, si hubiera entrenado como corresponde habria sido campeona del mundo. En su quinto lanzamiento hizo 50,38 m. Fue su mejor marca y la única chilena con una medalla olímpica. Ese record sudamericano duró hasta 1976 cuan do Marlene Dos Santos se lo batió.
3:00 'Melbourne is hardly more than a provincial capital' - well, yes, as anyone from Sydney will tell you.
Ha ha that's funny
And Victoria isn't the smallest state, either! Then again, Tasmania was also missing from the map on Landy's jacket. 5:28
Omg he said Melbourne wrong!
It's sad that 99.9 parcent of all the people in the stadium have all died
The population of Melbourne also tripled over the next 30 years following the Olympics as it was stated to be around three million by 1987 within a tourism documentary about Melbourne which was released in 1987! :)
Love the cinematography
For those wondering why Sydney 2000 was such a good games, the reason is simple: Sydney wanted to one-up Melbourne.
You can hardly compare them though with 44 years between them and such advances in technology.
14:48 best speech ever
Wow! I saw all of this, I never knew that a film was made.
I like how the narrator said “We may not see this place again” u never know they might host the games again soon
IMPRESIONANTE IMAGEN...FELICITO AL PERSONAL A CARGO DE LAS CÁMARAS Y A SU GRUPO ...POR HACER TAN PRECIOSO ME TRAJE DE LOS JUEGOS OLÍMPICOS MELBOURNE 1956...CONVERTIDO POSTERIORMENTE EN UN DOCUMENTAL PARA LA PANTALLA GRANDE....
Amazing, excellent quality.
very polished production; but in late Nov., these 'summer' Olympics were getting pretty close to winter for many - funny to see Christmas decorations in an Olympics setting
Dear Sir , Are available the video clips of India vs Australia, India vs Yugslovia , India vs Bulgeria football matches of Melbourne 1956 olympic Games ?
Fantastic film, amazing quality. Unfortunately, the narrator calls Ballarat "Hallarat" - lol.
Pity he also can't pronounce Melbourne properly.
Now 4.8 million only 60 years later. Crazy
Yes Melbourne grows up quickly.
French /Canadian produced film from 1956.
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Satu-satunya partisipasi timnas sepak bola Indonesia di kancah Olimpiade terjadi pada Olimpiade Melbourne (Australia) tahun 1956. Indonesia langsung lolos ke babak perempat final setelah Taiwan mengundurkan diri di babak kualifikasi. Saat itu Indonesia diperkuat Andi Ramang, legenda Indonesia yang diakui FIFA. Juga diperkuat kiper sekaligus kapten tim bernama Maulwi Saelan. Pasca memperkuat timnas, Maulwi Saelan ditunjuk sebagai ajudan pribadi Presiden Soekarno. Kiprah timnas sepak bola Indonesia di Olimpiade Melbourne 1956 langsung kandas di babak perempat final setelah takluk dari tim raksasa Uni Soviet yang diperkuat kiper legendaris, Lev Yashin. Selama pagelaran Olimpiade tersebut, Indonesia hanya bermain sebanyak dua kali melawan Uni Soviet. Pada pertandingan pertama, kedua tim bermain imbang 0-0. Saat itu belum ada aturan penalti sehingga pertandingan harus diulang. Sayangnya pada laga ulangan melawan Uni Soviet, Indonesia harus bertekuk lutut 4 gol tanpa balas. Timnas sepak bola Uni Soviet sendiri pada akhirnya berhasil merengkuh medali emas Olimpiade Melbourne 1956 setelah mengalahkan Yugoslavia dengan skor 1-0 di final. Ini juga menjadi medali emas Olimpiade pertama Uni Soviet dalam cabang sepak bola dan baru mereka peroleh lagi 32 tahun kemudian (Olimpiade Seoul 1988).
Atlet Angkat Besi Indonesia sempat tersorot di Video ini, ada di menit 50:18
Dia adalah Liem Kim Leng yang bermain di Nomor 60 Kg
minute 13.55 at the middle is my Father Datuk Sium Diau
buani - Write the time thus 13:50 and when you click on it you will go straight to it.
My sister had a teacup which was an heirloom saying xvi olympiad melbourne 1956. She wanted to get rid of it but i said ill have it :)
A stunning impression of a world forever lost: where there appears to be no such thing as Olympic 'security' beyond a few sailors and cops guiding people to seats, where athletes debarked busses and mixed into what was essentially a pre-opening garden party, where television would begin its slow (but not that slow!) remaking of the games in a complex morphology and syntax of image systems, and where the only overt political text was the bloody water polo semi-final between Hungary and the Soviet Union. Now we have Paris, strange and distant and delirious, with Plans A, B AND C for the opening ceremonies in case of trouble and most of us ever poised with a characteristic vigilance: what scandal, what unexpected thing, what terrible known unknown, what sensation awaits?
The Melbourne spectators are all well dressed and created a good impression with a large turn out at the various sports. Melbourne is the world most livable city, or 2nd most, every year in the 21st century. In a few decades it will be larger than Sydney if the current population increase continues. A nice temperate climate which is more Mediterranean in Summer.
more Mediterranean in summer? ... yeah but Melbourne in July/August is COLD and cannot host an Olympics ever again. You know it being the SUMMER Olympics.
@@analcommando1124- Brisbane could be the next Aussie host of the games. Why would Melbourne want them again as it has been there done that in 1956. The cost of running the games is very high with little financial return only the "glory" of staging them. Tokyo is a sad case currently due to CV-19.
@@adrianjackson2696 If you actually knew what you were talking about you'd know the IOC has streamlined the games in attempt to make the bidding cheaper, fairer and now GREATLY favours cities that already have infrastructure already built.
The IOC has gone to great lengths to make the games cheaper and easier to host.
Thats why cities like Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles and (most likely) Brisbane are winning the right to host games, because they have the infrastructure already built and the IOC is no longer looking at developing countries to host.
And plenty of cities did well out of the summer games. LA in 84, Seoul 88, Sydney 2000, London 2012 were all successful. Even Atlanta in 1996 while not a great success wasn't a financial disaster and Barcelona 1992 was very successful as well.
Few Olympics have been financial disasters. Thats a myth.
As for Melbourne, they DID want to get the games again in 1996, a mere 40 years after hosting. One of the reasons Melbourne didn't even get close to hosting was that either Melbourne host the games later in the year like in 1956 or hold them during winter. Neither option was liked by the IOC or other countries and rightly so.
A summer games in October means no NBA players for the basketball. A "summer" games in Melbourne in winter month of August is moronic.
And Melbourne regardless if they wanted to or not CANNOT EVER HOST THE SUMMER GAMES.
But for you to claim Melbourne has NEVER wanted to host the Olympics again is a lie.
@@analcommando1124 - Don't use condescending language in the first part of your post. I know what I am talking about.. I live in Melbourne and know a former athlete who was part of the 1996 bid. They definitely wanted the games but after all the loss saved Australia a lot of money. Later we had the excellent Commonwealth Games in 2006 that were better than the Olympics anyway. No cheating, doped up or big ego athletes from the USA, Russia or China as a bonus.
@@adrianjackson2696 If you think the lol Commonwealth Games were better than the Olympics then you're a bigger idiot than I previously thought.
13:24, those Japanese really had some balls to do that only 11 years after WWII.....It may be unintentional to them, but that kind of salute is really easy to misunderstand. Even the commentary was speechless at that time......lololol
smallest state? we really did forget about Tassie. and it's Melbin not Melborn
Such a disgrace that swimming was not included in this pro US film as it was the start of Australia's golden era in the pool