Twenty-three Years a Premier (1961)

Twenty-three Years a Premier (1961) GRG7/77/63
Courtesy of the South Australian Tourism Commission
7 minutes / 16mm film / b/w/ sound
This film comes from a series of motion picture films commissioned or obtained by the Tourist Bureau and its successors for publicity purposes. Copyright all rights reserved.
Personal record of a day in the life of Sir Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia from 1938-1965. Shots of him at his Norton Summit home. Filmed by ABS 2 Television.

[@Roger__Wilco]

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.

[@buzzyb12000]

I would love to have a look at that site in South Australia were it was filmed , I love beautiful South Australia. When I was in STH Australia with my mum and dad staying with relatives in February 1965 I think he was premier then. Twenty seven years my god that is longer than Menzies 18 years, Bolte 19 years and Joh Bjelke Peterson 19-5 years

[@veronicagrow7058]

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

[@bourkey4682]

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!