Fascinating look at everyday life in Sydney in 1966

Film Australia have a fascinating collection of films of historical significance in their archives, including Life in Australia: Sydney, a promotional film showing footage of what everyday life was like for a Sydney family almost 50 years ago.

A few things I found fascinating:

• Suits and ties everywhere, no bogans
• Stay-at-home mums
• Almost all white people
• The “old rattler” train carriages that were still running until recently (yes, they’re that old!)
• The opera house being constructed
• Red-brick buildings shown off as stylish and new
• Is that girl at the rock’n’roll dance rocking out in her underwear?
• Time traveller from the 80’s at 17:02
• The traffic was bad, even then