1920s - A Trip Through Australia in Color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Australia in 1920s, wonderful Trip Through Melbourne, Sydney, Cronulla, Dandenong Ranges
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source: Robert Juckert on 16mm film (Courtesy of Leo Hogan)
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00:00-3:27 - Melbourne
3:28-4:55 - Dandenong Ranges
4:56-11:01 - Cronulla and Sydney
11:02-11:26 - Robert Juckert
Which city would you like to visit in 1920s??
This is great, but it's not 1920s. @1:25, entering the CBD, you can see Alcaston House (2 Collins St), on the corner there, that was built in 1939, so this footage must be from either 1939 or the mid 40s.
Los Angeles, to see the golden age of Hollywood.
@@James-kv6kb it is Melbourne.
I would like to visit them all please, and thank you
@@James-kv6kb It starts in Melbourne then they go to Sydney about 5mins in
This is why I love KZhead you get to watch videos like this.
Observations: Streets are clean, wide, and sunlit. No SUV's!! People are well dressed and slender ... no obesity evident. Skies appear smog-free.
No diversity.
Not much skin cancer back then. People wore hats and covered up.
No obesity evident?
dashcams Australia has been around a long time
Lol 😅
Imagine if nobody had the means, the ability or the mind to create such films. Such mundane footage at the time, such treasured resources today.
Im amazed at the infastructure. Its like weve gone backward in ways. Its now tinfastructure.
Amazing footage. The lack of street lines and road signs make it so much nicer
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Amazing restorative work. As a Melbournian, can't thank you enough.
thank you very much ;)
Ok so it's Melbourne shame they don't put that in the titles so the rest of the country actually knows .
@@James-kv6kb almost all Australian's would know it's Melbourne. I'd say fair point for foreigners but how important is it that you know what Australian city it is from the title alone? Seems a little over the top to be making this same comment multiple times in the comment section.. you must have a lot of spare time 😊
@@sirtra nowhere in the title did it say Melbourne and remember as much as Victoria's think they're the centre of the earth most wouldn't recognise Melbourne
@@James-kv6kb Are you alright, James?
This is incredible - the quality makes it feel so present, which is such a treat! What a beautiful piece of history. Thank you to whoever thought to film this, and to those who restored and upgraded it.
thank you so much
@@NASS_0 The part of the video you've labelled as Manly is actually Lane Cove, with Saint Ignatius College Riverview sitting up on the hill. Manly and Riverview are about 15 km apart.
How beautiful and clean Melbourne was. Seeing the sky above the buildings makes it more livable as opposed to what you see today. Great footage.
Melbourne and all other big cities here in Australia have become shitholes.
The sky is still visible lol. What are you thinking of?
@@aussiejubes I think they're saying that the buildings aren't too tall
@@techallday8168 oooh. Thanks!
@@aussiejubest is visible, but only to an extent. Buildings are way too high now.
love it how everyone was in suits, seems such a chilled time
It was 2 years after the end of WW 1. My great grandma, who I knew well, lost 2 brothers and another badly injured another was ok. There were a lot of families in the same boat, a very sad time for the country. Oh, and don't forget the looming depression..
My father was born in 1914 on a Gippsland dairy farm so would have been a young boy around this time. Some of the family would make an annual pilgrimage to the “big city” and would have driven through Dandenong to get there made me very nostalgic thinking of them all, now long passed. ❤
Im old too. Can you imagine having the footage of your life that the kids have today. They have every moment of their lives on record on their phones. Id give a fortune just for one photo of old friends and even myself as a kid..
It's fantastic to see people back then compared to today and things were back then and buildings still around today its grateful to the photographer's to do this back then fir people of our generation can see how they really are back then 😀
mmm 🤤 Gippsland dairy ❤
best yoghurt and cream ever
How clean does ever look...
amazing what a Jewish sprinkle of diversity does...
Solid brick houses, slate roofs. I wish they built those these days.
look how QUIET it is !!! it's unbelievable !! I wish it was like this now... thanks for sharing this wonderful film
Possibly filmed on a quiet sunny Sunday when the amateur cameraman was not working and could concentrate on filming with too many people interfering or getting in the way. Melbourne was very quiet on Sundays even in the 1980s with most shops closed. I have seen other Melbourne 1920s films much busier.
@@johnd8892 I remember how Melbourne was on a sunday up until the 80's.
@@johnd8892 Yes, but if you look at any old footage of Melbourne, the streets are always much less busy and quieter. But then with a couple of decades all these people were fighting in WW2.
@@DavidNotSolomonWW 1 had just finished you should say!
@@johnd8892 It definitely was not a sunday - the x-ray shop was open and the CBD bustling.
The building at 10 minutes is St Ignatius' College Riverview. Footage taken from Hunters Hill, almost certainly at the Fig Tree ferry depot just next to the Fig Tree Bridge.
Mary Reiby's house is on the far right at 10:12, so well done.
The jetty/wharf is still there, tho mayb not the original. But it's a shame they demo'd the federation period jetty shelter as there's nothing there now. The other waterside domed structure in the distance is still there.
The Sydney ferry system is...an ordinary ferry system..
My dad was born in 1925 Adelaide and it's so cool to see what he would've seen at a young age
Trying to pinpoint the date I would say it would be sometime after March 1929. (The "Regent" on Collins Street, Melbourne opened on 15th March and the cable trams on Collins Street were converted to electric traction around this time also). The colour and sound certainly added some realism and made the film so much more fascinating. Thank you!
Just before the Big Crash. You can see people were doing well here. A few yrs later 30% unemployment.
@@AussieTVMusic and here we are about to possibly crash again.
Unfortunately by saying 1920s in the title, so many are jumping to the conclusion that this is 100 years or older. The more reliable date estimates at 11:19 of 1928 to 1932 are not being noticed or absorbed.
Alcastan House also visible at 1:24. It was built 1929/1930. As the video approaches the corner of Collins and Spring it appears there may be some scaffolding so maybe not 100% complete but it does look to be at full height. So I would think actually early 1930
I think that's more accurate.....Vehicles on the 1920's were not that modern looking.
Is been 100 ++ years already. Epic history.
This is great, but it's not 1920s. @1:25, entering the CBD, you can see Alcaston House (2 Collins St), on the corner there, that was built in 1939, so this footage must be from either 1939 or the mid 40s.
@@emmapasqule2432 Same with some of the NSW footage. "Hotel Cecil" wasn't a hotel until the end of the 20s (maybe even very early 30s) as it was previously a block of appartment called Munro Flats. Commencement of the transition from flats to a hotel didn't start until the end of 1927.
@@stoojinator Yes that's right; so it's not 1920s as is claimed by this person.
@@emmapasqule2432 Except there are no 1930's or 1940's cars or vehicles in the film so its 1920's. Every vehicle shown in this film is from the 1920's or earlier.
@@wigs1098 No, Alcaston House wasn't built until 1938, so has to be 1938 or later. The facts don't lie! :) hehehe
Knowing all those seen in the film has now deceased even the little babies. They had a life, hopes, dream, achievements or failures. I hope they rest in Peace.
Absolutely wrong, the baby at 6:09 let’s say is 3 years old. And say The film was taken in 1929, that child would be 94, My nana is 96 today sorry just math
@@blairmccarthy427 I am glad she is alive. I wish her good health and happy life.
@@sduru Jah
A lot of the children and babies back then would still be alive today and today would be in their 90s.
@@blairmccarthy427 Interesting. My mother is nearly 96. Apparently only the fairly well-off owned cars before World War 2. Plus the culture back then was not so good. Unmarried mothers were treated appallingly. It was also a very formal world. Where people were addressed as Mrs or Mr.
Thank you Robert. Your record keeping of the era is appreciated. I hope you had a life full of wonderful memories.
It's quite amazing to see what Melbourne looked like only 100 years ago. What a change we've seen, and not necessarily for the better.
esp had the Brits not landed in Aus it would have been far better
@@happys6057 hahaha, yeah go roll around in some dirt.
@@sreid7886 dont worry. Great Reset is coming for you.
@@happys6057 Why are you using the internet? Or electricity? The infrastructure you're using is made, invented and built by the white man, QUICK! I suggest you move to Simpson desert if you don't want Anglo influence in Aus
@@happys6057 I bet 1 trillion golds you don't live a Native lifestyle but instead reap the benefits of White technology all day every day.
Everyone is so well dressed. I remember in 1996 when I moved to Melbourne people still dressed well. Not today.
It's because there are so many feral low class people here in Australia today.
Import sh.. become sh..
I love to see these old videos. Great to see how things looked back then. Greetings from Greenwood SC USA
Australia has always enjoyed a high standard of living...even back then. The city scenes are great but the drive up in the Dandenongs is amazing. The Robour tea sign a classic.
Even? Australia's greatest relative wealth was in the 1890s, when it had the top per capita income in the world. It's been all downhill since then. 😂
@@TenOrbital The dumb today from young people is astounding. I just read a comment in another thread above from Sydney radio station 2UE declaring brakes weren't invented at the time of this footage. Just think on that. Try not to want to leave earth.
Not anymore
@@fingerprint5511 they actually just used engine braking back then, also the steam from the engine was routed to the wheels where it came out in high pressure and slowed them down. Pretty cool if you ask me. Seems I know more than you buddy!
@Mike Fisher Yes we all know about the 1890s, but compared to most of the world my comment stands. You are clearly a GOOSE!
Fascinating. Australia - 1920's. How particular. Thank you soo much.
Looked a lot better then than now.
Sadly, Robert passed away at age 34, probably from lung cancer or maybe even radiation poisoning. But he sure made some good memories for us all.
Thank you ❤
Lung cancer was extremely rare back then.
@@darren5971 Not for smokers.
Who's Robert?
@@wifinet8838 11:05
Cities looked so much cleaner every back then i mean the roads are literal spotless which you would be hard pressed to find these days
"roads are literal spotless " - you're viewing a very low resolution video of roads that had many few vehicles and people than they do today.
Be a bit of horse Doo Doo about the place don't worry about that 😅
My great grandfather bought the first car on his street in the 20s in Melbourne - some kind of tourer - and used to drive the family up to Ferny Creek to stay in a weatherboard shack. I've got some little box brownie pictures of them outside the shack, similar construction to the one you can see in this footage at around 4.52. And the blue Mountains views havent changed all that much - just a few more rails in that area plus a lot more tourists. Really lovely. Thanks again.
4:52
How stunning! Everything so pristine, the people so dapper, to think all of those people live their lives and are now gone and what their legacies were gets me today dreaming! Love your work ,love the time you take to share with others.Thank you so much❤
When I watch this it brings me closer to my long-deceased Nanna and Pop and the world they lived in. Thank you .
welcome
Wow amazing footage. I love these old videos. Thank you! ✌️
Yeah me too. It's virtual time travel.
Melbourne 100 years ago more beautiful than today
It's a piece of junk of a city
It's not just Melbourne. The world is playing a weird arms race who can build skyscrapers most similar to sci-fi movies.
Being a Melbourne ite, with Sunday drives to the Dandenongs ,and Devonshire tea, not ain the 20s but the 50s on wards, that all looked so peaceful. Thank you.
To think how much everything continues to change. My grandmother passed away last year having been born around the time the original film was taken. If I am blessed to live as long it's unimaginable what the world may look like.
Incredible film footage. Thank you for your dedication in restoring this masterpiece of history.
welcome
With all of the enhancements done it feels like I'm looking through a window that I could step right into at any moment, as if it was all going on right now
It’s a bit freaky at first tbh. Trying to wrap your head around the colour, which makes it seem, as you said, as if it was all going on right now.
From 10:00, the footage is taken from Hunters Hill facing North East up the Lane Cove River towards Riverview, Northwood, Longueville, Greenwich. Incredible to see the sandstone structure from Riverview still the same as it is today. Awesome footage, thanks for sharing!
8:57. That is the Hawkesbury. In the town of Brooklyn. Looking from Hawksburry River train station. 9:42 That is a glimpse of the old Hawkesbury rail bridge. The old bridge had similar, but lower height arches.
I thought the Hawkesbury as well. I don't think that rail line has changed since then.
YES!!! I thought it was Brooklyn straight away!! And the rail bridge still operates today connecting Sydney to The Central Coast.
Well not the exact but it's the same type of bridge (sorry don't know my bridge types) 😂 connecting the two regions.
that train trip from Woy Woy through Berowra is just as beautiful today as it was then.
Yeah, I take that train line to the Central Coast all the time.
Nice colorization in most parts. It seems to work much better in nature scenes than in city street scenes and cars in particular. Also interesting to see how spacious everything was back then, like the beach, the streets and so on. Quite different today. And I hope the dog at 3:45 survived...
thank you very much
Brakes hadn't been invented yet, poor dog.
The dog was the first thing I thought about too.......I want to go back in time just to beat up this driver.
Send it in to Dashcams Australia youtube channel.
@@karenmbbaxter oh yes, violence is exactly what we need today, because you know, back then they weren't so coarse.
Its so weird to be watching this knowing one of those people could be your great parents. It looks so open and clean. What have we done to our environment :'(
Modern day capitalism. Consume, destroy and sell. Nothing else matters.
The amazing thing is that this was only around 135 years after Captain Cook landed. It was all bush and desert before then. And this was happening all around the country.
And Melbourne and the Port Phillip District was established @100 years from when the film was made Marvellous Melbourne certainly benefited from the riches of the gold rush and the foresight of surveyor Hoddle to provide for the expansive parks and wide boulevards Not the way things are done now!!
My thoughts too.
I personally don't believe they built cities and infrastructure this grand in that amount of time!?
Who told you that ? Because the Dutch and Portugese had dozerns of cities. It was called Terra Australis !
@@Eriu-88-88- please name one of them. Bet you can't?
As I have said before this channel is one of the most interesting ..... fascinating great great job Of restoration
thank you very much ;)
@@NASS_0 When Did Australia Declare It's Independence From Great Britain?? I Should Say When Did Australia Became An Independent Country And No Longer Belonging To The British Commonwealth.
@@sebastianguevara3615 The Australian colonies federated to become a country in 1901. Australia is still a member of the commonwealth. The monarch of Britain is officially the Australian head of state.
At about 5.00, is the Sutherland to Cronulla steam tram, closed in 1931. The railway line from Sutherland to Cronulla was opened in 1939.
Its so weird seeing their faces and have them look back at the camera, and you know they aren't alive anymore.
Wrong, some of the very young children could absolutely be alive, my nan is 96 and completely young, do the math
Amazing ! My Auntie was born around this time As an Aussie I was thrilled to see this Thank you
welcome
As a kid in my early teens back in the beginning of the 60's I would visit Cronulla to frolic and recreate around the beachside , and I can tell you that it was pretty much the same environmentally back then as it appears in this 1920's footage . Pretty sure that now that there's been so much structural redevelopment you wouldn't recognize it when comparing it with its 20's perspective . Thanks for featuring it here .
We were trying to work out if that was Cronulla or Bondi.
I think some of it was Shelly beach just barely south of Cronulla
@@voxac30withstrat 100% Manly at the end.
The grass with the "ripples" and the path and wooden fences were the same well into the 60s at the park and up along Cronulla Point at (South) Cronulla. First to go was the Cecil Ballroom for Miami Apartments then the Cecil Hotel for shops and high rise home units.
@@SchwarzeWitwe2 The camera has zoomed in on Cronulla Point at the end of that segment.
I remember seeing the Hotel Celcil at Cronulla in the early 90s, pretty much like how you see it here. They tore it down to build units, but the front facade is still there.
@@hayloft3834 My Mum was born in 42 and says she used to do rock n roll dancing in the Cecil Ballroom in the late 50s/early 60s.
Hard to grasp this film was taken almost 90 odd years ago nice to see images of Australia back then not fast paced like today.
As a boy in the early 1950's stayed at Cronulla and the Hotel Cecil. Scenery pretty much the same as shown. Had both accomodation and public bar in the days of 6 o'clock closing - very busy at weekends. Went back a few years ago - only the front farcade of the hotel remains with high rise units and development
Old footage like this I always wonder what my ancestors were doing exactly when this footage was taken
When I was a kid I used to rid on those 1920's trams. They are an absolute icon.
Melbourian here, thank you very much for sharing :-)
This is incredible, thanks for this! Time travelling always renders me so thoughtful about life itself
welcome ;)
How interesting. I lived in Melbourne and toured most of these locations over the years ,although I now live in Scotland. This is so interesting.Thanks very much.
What a beautiful civilised place & everyone so well dressed …
How clean the city's streets were, and well dressed the people are, vast contrast to nowadays.
You can't smell the results of having horses on the streets. Neither can you smell or see the bitter smoke from early dirty cars and trains. Most people owned very few items of clothing - what they're wearing is often their only jacket and shoes and one of few pants and shirts.
The cameraman is filming the picturesque areas. Re: Melbourne, had they ccontinued on into Fitzroy, you would have seen a largely polluted, industrial area and many poor people living in squalor.
Can’t believe they had dashcams back then!
@@whattheyreallyneed there’s always a narrow minded person that throws the same comment we see over and over again in these clips. The good old days of inequality and discrimination, I wonder if you’d say the same if you could smell the horses excrements, and the sweat of the people in the hot and humid weather of the place
I saw a couple grocery shopping yesterday wearing pajama bottoms and t-shirts. They made no effort to get dressed for public. Lowlife
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Next warsaw 1920s
Great video. What amazes me the most is just how clean everything looks. I know that this could be due to the editing process, but the streets look cleaner then those of today. And the people look the same. All well dressed.
thank you so much
@@NASS_0 No worries mate. Your videos are excellent. In this one in question, where you're not sure of it's Manly or not. Well that building up on the hill looks very similar to St Joseph's College in Hunter's Hill. I lived near Joey's in the 80s and used to go to Manly every weekend and we could see that college building at Manly up on the hill from the beach. But the estuaries don't look the right shape for either Manly or Hunter's Hill, so I'm not 100 percent sure of either. But the building looks ever more similar to Saint Ignatius' College Riverview. And that one is high up on a hill like the rest. But it's closer to the water than the others like in your video. And the ferries used to travel all around there, and still do. So I'm at a loss as to which building it actually is. Did you ever find out just where it is? That would be interesting to know. Because the three building all look very similar. Cheers mate.
Hats in 1920's be like mobile phones today. Almost everyone has one, you'd feel naked going out in public without one and occasionally get left on park benches, trams, etc 😀
imagine going back 100 years and showing them videos of the current world, they'd be mortified
Absolutely 💯 they'd be shocked and wouldn't want to be here .
last shot is St Ignatius Riverview in Lane Cove
Those were the 20s and now 100 years later, we are living in the 20s again.
Thanks to Robert, we can see go back 100 years in time.
Fabulous to see how the trees have grown in Cronulla and The Hotel Cecil ('Cesspit') where I spent probably too many hours in the 70's before it was pulled down. There's some excellent historic footage of the old ladies change rooms and surf club too. Thanks for posting this.
At 08:57, that is indeed the Hawkesbury River with the main north rail line in the background.
Closest thing to a (back in) time machine , nice work , thankyou , love it. 👏👏👏✌️🇭🇲
All that and the nation had only been a federation since 1901! Amazing.
Great work on the remaster and colour footage was superb to see .
thank you very much ;)
@@NASS_0 did you note the Australian way of spelling colour ?
very good job i like all the old cars and people dress up in the sunday best
Thx ;)
More cars than I thought would be around!
thank you for posting this i enjoyed it immensely
Thank you! This is so wonderful! I can recognise some of the buildings and love seeing marvellous Melbourne as it was in Phryne Fisher’s day! (So glad Melbourne never got rid of the trams. Still a great way to get around in the city.)❤ We love going to the Blue Mountains in NSW, but we do not look anywhere near as stylish as the visitors in this film, alas!
Funny that. As soon as I saw this I thought of Miss Fisher.
@@wiliammound7942 Same.
To them we would all be bogans if we were to go back. People who think they dress classy these days would look like panhandlers.
No shorts, t-shirts and thongs; people wearing formal, even on a casual stroll.
Great video nass, great work, incredible footage of Melbourne, Australia is such a beautiful country 👍😀👌
Wow I can't get over how everything kind of still looks the same in Sydney. I guess the 1920's were pretty modern! Thanks ❤
This is amazing colorisation and footage. Loved it ❤❤❤
Thx!
To think, some of those buildings have STAINS on them that were there before you and I were born, and will be there after we go! Life is fleeting.
3:46 The last seconds of a dog's life.
Yeah I thought he hit him seeing as put a cut in the filming, hopefully he dodged it, camera angle might make it look closer than it actually was.
I agree I wondered that poor doggy
While I really enjoy watching these old movies, that's something that I think could've been cut in the edit. A real downer.
Very valuable and interesting. Glad these shots were taken and have been preserved!
Wonderful slice of history thank you!
I was so fascinated and astonished at the vibrancy that I forgot to say thanks for your hard work in putting these colourful memories together.
Nass, Another fabulous job! Great scenery, thanks!
thank you very much ;) !
I love this and definetly recognise some of these places especially in Melbourne
Thanks for the memories of the good ol' days.
If THIS MAN Robert juckert filming this fir the next generation of people to see hiw it was back then we'd never know hiw they all lived fantastic 👏 👍 great man thanks Rob 😊
Once it was real, now we are real, how we would like to see the present through the centuries. How is it without us, what kind of people have become, kinder or even more angry, what kind of cars are there, how much progress has stepped forward. What a wonderful world this world is in the universe!
How quickly time flies!
However, in case you haven't noticed, unhinged humanity, of people problems and problem people, mar and despoil things, don't you think? From Mad Vlad Putin to the brain-dead, propped-up dementia corpse, Alzheimer's Biden.
Hey 👋 Nass,, Great 👍 video 📸🏙️ of the old city my son and I love the sounds of the old cars 🚗 and the trolley cars these are great images in those days 😄.. people just did they're thing and went on their way.. my wife and I and my son would like to take one day to be in those 1920s.. another great video 👍🎥🚃🚃🚎Max artwork. Thank you..
The subtitles help a lot thank you
thank you very much
Hi Nass,, Keep the Video's 🎥🍿🌮 Coming..👍👍👍.. Shalom...
Wow! Incredible. Tourist Rd is a dirt track. So much recognisable. No skyscrapers, no heavy traffic. Kind of wish it was like that now.
Fantastic shots of my home town, Cronulla!! Thankyou. I used to sit on the steps of The Hotel Cecil with my friend James and sell the Sun Newspaper after school. My Aunty was the Barmaid.
welcome
Hawkesbury?? was correct. The railway station was "Hawkesbury River", the train was going into the old Long Island tunnel, and the bridge was the old Hawkesbury River railway bridge, replaced in 1946.
Amazing, thank you. Makes me wonder where all the progress is!!
welcome
Fantastic footage and restoration NASS! So much civic pride back then and a wonderful record of the many heritage buildings now lost to developers.
Interesting look back in time, and the colouring does a great job of bringing. it to life. Thanks for uploading!
Wow great color and sharpness too very clear nice job thank you.😊
NASS, good stuff! ThanksMuch!
thank you very much bro
Wow. How amazing. The atmosphere is so real and feels just like the present. Thanks so much.
8:56 - 9:10 are Hawkesbury railway station at Brooklyn NSW, and through to 9:59 are in that area, The railway bridge shown is the Hawkesbury River railroad bridge.
Excellent work. Thank you so much I think i have finally found a parking spot! I was born in 1950 and there is so much I would love to see again of my childhood Sydney .
thank you very much
I was born in '54 and grew up in Jannali in the Sutherland shire. I LOVED the sound of the steam train at around 9:30 pm chugging uphill through the cutting coming off the Georges River bridge, past Como and on down its way to Port Kembla. What a wonderful sound to serenade a boy to sleep.
Nass you are a legend mate .. i live in cronulla this blew my mind , thank you
thank you very much ;)
So very interesting. Great job at colouring. I was fascinated the whole way through.
Sound design was really well done. Loved the colour too! Brilliant!!
Thx!!!