City of Geelong

Geelong looks more vibrant at that time than it does in 2024.

My mob arrived from Scotland in 1855 and settled in Newtown. I look at some of the buildings in town and think to myself.. this was being built back then.. Beautiful city if the council would leave it alone and stop putting in bike paths that ppl dont use.. And would be so nice if they would build parking (for free or max $5 a day) at the hospital and the train station.

These wonderful films capturing Australia at its Zenith, self sufficient and truly Australia are a treasure. Today it's unrecognisable and in my view, going to hell if we keep on this trajectory....

No industrial here now, its been ruined by our Gov and Council..full of ice junkies on pensions now..

No mention of the footy? It's a huge part of Geelong. This film was made in the 50's and the Cats had won premierships in 1951 and 1952, would think that would get a mention

10,000 homes in 10 years. Shame they can't do it now isnt it?

Made by the Shell Film Unit & Chamber of Commerce wa y back in 1957 was 8 ½ years b4 I was born ❗Some of these buildings are still standing today. Geelong is a beautiful city of over a ¼ of a million people.

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In another fifty years Geelong will be part of the Melbourne megapolis... but i believe it needs to build out its tram and train public infrastructure...

1980 Born and bred Pivotonian, great city to grow up in. Western districts / Surfcoast / Melbourne up the road 👍

Great to see another Shell Film Unit documentary directed by John Heyer, who also directed The Back of Beyond and even used a snippet of audio from that movie in this presentation.

The narrator said “ there’s plenty of power” in Geelong, well here we are 68 years later (going by the 1955 Ford Customline being assembled by Ford) and with all this renewable BS going and shutting down of base load power stations ( but to all those lefties that can’t see past their noses it apparently doesn’t matter that coal power stations are opening up and expanding in other parts of the world supplied by Australian coal, talk about double standards, it’s as though other countries are on some other planet! And man are we going “ Pay” for future electricity in super high prices etc, it’s just starting to happen, we should be utilising our vast uranium deposits to run cheap nuclear power instead of exporting it, the politicians obviously have shares in all these wind farms the sloths and in these fantastic old films we Aussies manufactured just about everything and we were a prosperous nation but not any more, we are too far gone with our reliance on a communist country like China, Vale Australia how we once knew it!

The Yacht club got the seal of approval from the dutch royal family, one of the oldest in Europe. Hence the RGYC.

Thanks for this video. I was born in Geelong in 1957 and am still here. It’s getting overcrowded now, but has been a great sized town to live in. Geelong is well placed to everything… Melbourne, beaches, forests. Will show this video to Mum who was also born here - she’ll love the ‘blast from the past’ as this was filmed in her heyday. Thanks again.

No George, it is a 16mm Technicolor print.

35mm original?

Geelong certainly was an industrial and agricultural powerhouse. Most informative short.
The surfing segment must contain the most incongruous music ever put to surfing footage!

Based on the Ford Customlines being assembled, it's from 1955.