Found this video on Google recently and thought it was excellent. It’s the rush hour in Sydney in 1971 and all the different forms of transport that people use to get to work. Judging from the footage of the harbour bridge at 8:45am – nothing much has changed in the last 38 years! Really digging that music too. Make sure you watch it to the end to find out what all the ferry crew, bus drivers, train drivers and toll collectors do from 9:00am onwards.

Apparently made by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, there’s some great stuff in here. The opera house is still under construction, the skyline looks like downtown Swindon, there’s footage of Captain Birdseye canoeing to work(!) and there’s plenty of footage of pipe smoking chaps indulging in a few pinches of Old Holborn on the train to work. Ah, the good old days eh – before the repelllent letters O.H. & S. had ever been stuck together.