Life in Melbourne, 1950's - Film 15327

Melbourne, Australia

Australia Rules Football. Huge stadium on three levels packed with crowds watching the game in action. Slow pan across the city of Melbourne with some high-rise, but mainly low level housing and offices.
A map of the world. Titles. Zoom in to Melbourne on a map. A lake and city landscape with public buildings, various views of the lake side. A horse-drawn milk float. Milkman jumps off moving milk cart. He leaves two milk bottles and takes the empties. Two horses' heads in harness. Gardener in the park. Joggers in the park. Two horse riders. Men running.
Early morning view down a straight main street, little traffic. Another main street. Workers arrive. Men walk to the docks and quayside. Commuters. Workers at a factory or office. Dockers move bales off a truck. Builders. Man up a ladder. Suburban Melbourne house. Man leaves for work, waves to his wife at the gate and gets into his car as the postman on a bike gives wife a letter. Driving through suburban Melbourne past parked cars and houses, postman still on his bicycle. Woman in headscarf waves. Man in car stops, she gets in. Apartment blocks, large high-rise ones. Car stops to let children cross a crossing. Policeman waves the car on. More suburban houses and bungalows. Man drops off woman, who joins two others.
Unloading cartons. Busy traffic. Traffic jam of delivery vans. Horns hooting. Woman uncovers jewellery stand in a shop. Another woman in uniform adjusts her hair in a mirror. Man in boiler suit shuts a locker door. A factory floor with engines being worked on. Man works on engines. Very busy streets and crowds of people. Office woman. Pipes on a man's back. Business men in suits walk in financial district. Building reads 'Commonwealth Trading Bank'. Two men carry parts of a dummy. Helicopter lands. Business men get out and walk through car park. Wool auction. Loose fleeces are examined. Auction in progress. Fashionable women in department store descend by escalator. Food shopping. Housewife buys a cooked chicken. Information desk. Salami counter. Close-up of a till or cash register. Women slice meat and cut cheese. Fruit and vegetable stall in the street. Woman buys fruit. Another woman buys flowers from a stall. Open-air market with bales of cloth. Lots of shoppers. Women look at material samples, holding cloth against them for clothes. Fairly garish some of them. Lots of market scenes.