A Comprehensive overview of a fascinating decade in the history of Melbourne and its environs, and a tribute to the many filmmakers who recorded the major - and minor - events which occurred in Melbourne in the 1950s. Told through clips from an astonishing range of newsreels, documentaries, travelogues, advertisements, home movies, dramatic features and short subjects - with a detailed commentary by Melbourne broadcaster Paul Higgins this vast array of footage has been arranged in six sections: Institutions (places, personalities, pasttimes) ; Growth (the baby boom, new government initiatives, urban sprawl) ; Events (sporting and cultural) ; The Games (the 1956 Olympics) ; Arrivals (fads and fashions, television and Tattersalls, celebrities and the consumer revolution) ; Change (or the lack of it!).
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
308200
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Melbourne (Vic.)
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Archival materials
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Newsreels - Australia
History → Australia - History - 1945-1965
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)