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Adelaide

Made by the Department of Immigration in the mid 1960s to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in the mid 1960s.
Series : Life in Australia Series | Year : 1966 | Total Duration : 20.5 Minutes | Producer : Eric Thompson
Director : James Jeffrey |
Grape pickers moving from vine to vine with buckets, city of Adelaide in distance. Graphic map of the world with zoom into Australia then South Australia and Adelaide. Electric tram along rails then track along suburban streets POV tram. Woman sitting in tram, city of Adelaide framed by tram window. Tram through the city. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41297 | 55 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Red and white tram pulling up on Adelaide street and passengers alighting. Commuters along street then crossing at busy intersection. City building, office interior with uniformed staff uncovering typewriters and settling into work. Women talking. Adelaide city traffic with track of taxi with wide GT stripe over it, driver. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41298 | 1 min 11 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Taxi driving through Adelaide city streets. Taxi in street. Secretary with short blonde hair in office answering telephone and smiling. Taxi driver in phone booth at the other end of the conversation. Passenger and taxi driver in car and taxi travelling. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41299 | 51 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Chrysler car manufacturing plant. Supervisor accompanying inspector carrying briefcase around the factory floor and past cars on assembly line being worked on by two mechanics to each car. Valient car body being lowered onto chassis. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41301 | 53 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Taxi along city street. Statue and pedestrians walking along city footpath. Two women in secretarial uniforms walking along footpath and walking along path in park framed by tall trees either side. Women feeding duck as they eat their lunch on the grass in park. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41302 | 38 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Taxi driver driving in car reaching to turn on transistor radio propped up against windscreen. Woman testing radio and women working at bench on electrical parts. Factory showing production of television screens with screens rotating on machines and moving parts. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41303 | 39 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Female teacher, children working at desks in primary school classroom. Blonde girl. Teacher beating hand held drum in gymnasium with young girls in leotards dancing. Blonde girl dancing. Mother picking blonde girl up after class. Older woman in kitchen making tea and family taking tea at table (blonde girl, taxi driver father, secretary mother and their parents). Mother and father excuse themselves and depart. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41304 | 1 min 25 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Painting class and pan across room past several painters at easels to teacher looking at blonde woman's painting of a lute before taking brush and adding in shadows. Taxi driver pulling in to kerb at night and letting couple out at hotel. Couple entering hotel assisted by doormen and restaurant where they are seated by waiter. Looking at menus given to them by waiter. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41306 | 1 min 4 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Blonde woman at easel in painting class. Husband waiting outside with arms crossed. Two of them leaving holding hands. Beach in early morning light with horses in training being raced along water's edge racing towards camera. Horse being led into waves and horse pulling man in sulky through waves past camera. Horse swimming in sea with trainer and horse rolling in sand on beach. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41307 | 1 min 16 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Two horses and jockeys racing around racetrack. Horses past camera as two men record times. Taxi dropping couple off at golf course and watching while woman tees off. Adelaide city traffic and pedestrians crossing busy intersection. Blonde woman in spotted scarf shopping at Adelaide's Central Markets past greengrocer then buying sausage. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41308 | 1 min 34 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Adelaide city streets with cars, buses and trams past camera. Ferris wheel visible over top of tall building. Blonde woman crossing busy city street and in glass shop looking at a vase then taking it to the counter to buy. Taxi driver wearing sunglasses driving, taxi along street. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41310 | 41 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Woman window shopping and passing another woman walking her Afghan hound then walking into upmarket dress shop. Woman talking to sales assistant and looking through dresses on rack. Woman trying on new dress with her husband looking through the window from outside. Outdoor courtyard restaurant. Couple at table being served wine with man approving wine. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 136874 | 1 min 42 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Adelaide city street at night with lit up signs including ones for Paris theatre and Regent Theatre. Couple in night club watching cabaret show with women on stage dancing and couple dancing on dance floor with band in background. Couple as they walk along street at night amidst other couples. Couple playing pinball machine and couple walking past brasserie looking through window at people eating and drinking inside. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 136875 | 1 min 13 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Couple walking down stair into restaurant then being shown to a table. Guitarist playing in doorway and couple drinking coffee and listening to guitarist. Two churches with their congregations arriving and panoramic view over Adelaide. Couple with their daughter emerging from house and getting into the front seat of their station wagon car and driving down street. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 136876 | 1 min 56 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Speedboat and waterskier down canal with houses in background. Family driving in station wagon car over river with marina in background. Long stretch of beach and couple with daughter arriving at beach and undressing to swimsuits. Mother and daughter take off matching jackets to reveal matching bikinis. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 136896 | 45 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Girl running across sand to edge of sea. Mother sitting on sand with her elderly mother holding towel out to her toddler son. Children in military band dressed in red and black uniforms marching across oval with views to bay. Couple walking past then boarding boat. River Torrens with city in background and couple on board. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 136897 | 58 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Boat along River Torrens past trees and parkland and view of the river from the boat. Rowers past boat and shot of boat passing under bridge. Rowers, ducks and river banks from boat. Fountain in river with bridge and building beyond. Couple in boat past fountain. Children playing in wading pool in park. Children in glistening sunlight. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 136898 | 1 min 15 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Couple walking through park past picnickers. Children rolling down hill. Couple being offered sausage from man at barbeque. Sausages and chops on barbeque. Couple strolling along paths in park. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 136899 | 1 min 9 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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