Fantastic piece of propaganda, this is. Thanks for sharing!

A few things stand out:
1) Unlike the Adelaide film, there isn't much focus on the trams (did they already start to miss their tram system then?). Melbourne wasn't Australia's "tram city" yet (as we all know), with Brisbane, Ballarat and Bendigo still having trams at the time.

2) Attempts were made to show how "modern" Melbourne was with significant emphasis on modern architecture over old, with several shots of modern buildings in Melbourne at the expense of classical buildings. Harris trains also get a brief shot of airtime, nevermind that Victoria's railway system had steam locomotives and lots of wooden-bodied stock still running around at the time! Even the Housing Commission buildings look fantastic and new, compared to their modern reputation of being cesspools of crime and disadvantage.

3) What flies in the face of the modern image that they were trying to project was the hosre+cart milk delivery fellow near the beginning.

4) The nightshots of the city, where the neons were shown lit up down city streets, seems almost a bit condescending. "Look! We have electricity, what do you backwards animals have?"

5) Parking meters on Russell St, even in the mid-60s parking in the CBD was already not free!

CM.

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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvVdaP6FvFQ&feature=feedlik

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