The Lost City of Melbourne | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Melbourne was the fastest growing city in the world

00:08 in the early 1850s.

00:09 - It was a place jumping out of its skin.

00:12 You did things 10 times bigger

00:13 than they were done elsewhere.

00:15 - They borrowed big, they lived big, they built big.

00:18 (upbeat music)

00:21 I grew up in Essendon and I could walk to three cinemas.

00:25 - You've got suburbs that have five and six theaters

00:28 and some of these were masterpieces.

00:29 - There are cinemas that we think of as being spectacular,

00:33 like the Regent Theater in the Plaza.

00:35 - And you'd have an orchestra.

00:36 It would have been an incredible time to go to the movies.

00:39 (upbeat music)

00:41 (explosion)

00:45 - So in the lead up to the Olympic Games

00:50 when we were inviting the world in,

00:52 there was a lot of discomfort.

00:55 - Melbournians as a whole suffered from cultural cringe.

00:59 Melbourne wanted above all to be a modern city

01:01 and being modern meant having modern buildings.

01:05 (explosion)

01:09 - Television was the single biggest threat to theaters.

01:14 Some beautiful theaters were just completely demolished.

01:17 - There was not much of a preservation movement at all.

01:20 - It was just vandalism.

01:23 (explosion)

01:28 - They were huge and lavish enterprises.

01:30 Grand cafes with dining rooms especially for women.

01:34 Buildings with every gorgeous fixture

01:37 and bit of master craftsmanship you could ask for.

01:40 - But Melbourne is so very close to absolute annihilation.

01:47 It's so very nearly dull beyond belief.

01:51 (explosion)

01:53 - And these guys were just, they were acrobats.

01:55 They were like a live acrobat show.

01:58 - They didn't realize the love that Melbourne had

02:04 for the region.

02:05 - The region theater really was that line in the sand

02:08 and opposition to demolition of old buildings

02:11 just went like this.

02:12 - We've got our devastating losses

02:14 but wow, we've got buildings that we fought for,

02:17 we championed and they survived.

02:19 - There's enough there to make us feel

02:23 that we still inhabit a city

02:25 that is recognizably marvelous Melbourne.

02:28 (explosion)

02:30 [Music]

02:32 [BLANK_AUDIO]

The Lost City of Melbourne | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer

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