Lifeline To Adelaide. Around Australia Ep 2.

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  • Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1962. Directed by John Kingsford Smith. The lifeline referred to in the title of this film is the seventy-two inch steel pipe line which carries water fifty miles from Mannum on the Murray to the city's reservoirs in the Mt Lofty Ranges. Before the building of this pipe line Adelaide's water supply from the original dams was insufficient, and the city suffered from seasonal water shortages. Water from the Murray River now provides an adequate all year water supply for the city. Water for the parks, gardens and suburbs of the planned city of Adelaide and the newly created town of Elizabeth. Without access to this supply modern city and industrial life would be impossible for Adelaide, Australia's driest capital city.
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  • @honeykanakkary
    @honeykanakkary 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Resembling some European cities.. How beautiful Adelaide used to be... Wonderful archives...

  • @VJania
    @VJania 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love it. Still a beautiful city with beautiful people!

  • @aaax9410
    @aaax9410 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a kid i used to follow the the pipeline for miles through Gawler and Elixabeth , what a graet time in the 70s

  • @Kyee71
    @Kyee71 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I did not know that huge pipe line from the Murray River feed the reservoirs and didn't know they were linked either, very informative video.

  • @CH6P23
    @CH6P23 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great film , remember getting tired on the paddle boats for two

  • @Northisbest
    @Northisbest 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Beautiful film 👍

  • @leopoldonotarianni8663
    @leopoldonotarianni8663 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful footage

  • @ThePerson1959
    @ThePerson1959 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Look how green everything is in this old film. The Parklands look lovely. Not enough rain these days and the Murray is always in danger of running dry.

  • @gillianbrookwell1678
    @gillianbrookwell1678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    After coming out from the U K in 1963, I spent my teenage years in Adelaide and have many good memories of it, but now I live in Sunshine Coast, Queensland and prefer it as we get so much rain compared to Adelaide that seems dry much of the year.

    • @joebidensr.9244
      @joebidensr.9244 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think Adelaide is the only city in Australia in which the people are happy if it rains. It's a very hot, dry state to live in and I don't look forward to Summer's too much, especially in the last 20 years.

  • @isaahliu
    @isaahliu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    joyful, lovely and educational. respect

  • @MuhammadAudah
    @MuhammadAudah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've just arrived here from your Facebook page.
    Such a classic documentary!

  • @MarkHenstridge
    @MarkHenstridge 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    First :-) Excellent clip of dear old Adelaide (nothing has changed much)

  • @dianes9151
    @dianes9151 ปีที่แล้ว

    No Festival Theatre, or highrises. Adelaide was very pretty back then, so many beautiful buildings are now gone.

  • @jasoncarpp7742
    @jasoncarpp7742 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome video! Thanks for posting. It makes me even more want to visit Australia.

    • @NFSAFilms
      @NFSAFilms  10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great, Adelaide awaits you.

    • @jasoncarpp7742
      @jasoncarpp7742 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks. Hopefully I won't have to wait until I'm retirement age before I'm able to travel there. Thanks for posting. Anything that has to do with Australia.

    • @TigerRogers0660
      @TigerRogers0660 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jason, I live in a little town that the Murray River pipeline passes through (between Mannum & Adelaide). I hope you get a chance to visit here someday. I live on a small hobby farm - & would not swap it for anywhere else!! Tiger.

    • @jasoncarpp7742
      @jasoncarpp7742 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope to make it there one day. I don't know when. But I'd certainly try to make it. I've visited so many interesting places in the last several years.

    • @TigerRogers0660
      @TigerRogers0660 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What part of the US do you live in Jason?

  • @MarkWhich
    @MarkWhich 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Adelaide has tripled in population since, imagine how the pipeline is coping by now.

    • @klord-is9ft
      @klord-is9ft 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Especially with all the Indians here now

    • @ammeedee9357
      @ammeedee9357 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s called the desalinisation plant

    • @Lupi33z
      @Lupi33z 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      no it hasn't

    • @mattsmith-ri3lp
      @mattsmith-ri3lp ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ammeedee9357 never been used

  • @Lupi33z
    @Lupi33z 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    30% growth in ten years from 1952 to 1962
    what has it been in the last ten years? 0-1%?

  • @ammeedee9357
    @ammeedee9357 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Scary how clean the River Murray looks.. What happened?

    • @koolkat5217
      @koolkat5217 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Carp.

    • @IanL1
      @IanL1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My grandpa (died a few years back at 100yo) was telling me how clean the Murray used to be and how dry it got upstream before the barrages

    • @joebidensr.9244
      @joebidensr.9244 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Pom's bathed in it.

    • @catey62
      @catey62 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      fertilisers run off from farmland along the way, causing algae growth, ad the Carp stir up the bottom of the river. along with pollution from different sources along the way add to the problem. a lot of the old timers say you used to be able to see the bottom back in the old days, sadly you cant anymore.

  • @joebidensr.9244
    @joebidensr.9244 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The city was laid out so well, but neglect of the suburbs lay out is now causing our government to spend billions on expanding roads. What I can't understand is why Bunnings was to be allowed to be built on South Road near Castle Plaza, because of this, we now have to have a tunnel.. Money talks, I guess.

    • @MarkHenstridge
      @MarkHenstridge 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep money talks and the political extreme right like their cut

  • @mattsmith-ri3lp
    @mattsmith-ri3lp ปีที่แล้ว

    Never drink the tap water

  • @trusttheuniverse5816
    @trusttheuniverse5816 ปีที่แล้ว

    Robbing Peter to pay Paul

  • @levethane
    @levethane 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Elizabeth is 70 miles from Adelaide?

    • @Awhitapu
      @Awhitapu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I think it said 17 miles :)

    • @ammeedee9357
      @ammeedee9357 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, 17 miles

    • @gillianbrookwell1678
      @gillianbrookwell1678 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ammeedee9357 I thought it was about 20 miles out; I could be wrong.

    • @koolkat5217
      @koolkat5217 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      30 km.

    • @catey62
      @catey62 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, he said 17 miles.

  • @Hossak
    @Hossak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pity the Victorians pee in the Murray before it gets to Adelaide :(

    • @MarkWhich
      @MarkWhich 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Murray does not run through Adelaide.

    • @Hossak
      @Hossak 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MarkWhich Adelaide gets it drinking water from the Murray, amongst other sources.

    • @MarkWhich
      @MarkWhich 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hossak Ohh then I won't be drinking tap water again!

  • @brettbrett9973
    @brettbrett9973 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fake pics

    • @lynettevoumard3100
      @lynettevoumard3100 ปีที่แล้ว

      I come from Adelaide....it's a Beautiful place....