Sydney As It Was

This video of Sydney dates from December 1993, and shows just how much a city can change in a generation. The Queen Victoria Building had only recently been restored in the late 1980s, but still has no awning, there are no aluminium multifunction SmartPoles, the now dismantled monorail had only been operating for five years, the award winning and now demolished Skygarden was setting new standards of inner city shopping centre design, the original Mid City Centre, built in the 1980s, was to be demolished in 2007, the Convention Centre and Exhibition Centre were major landmarks in Darling Harbour both have now also been demolished and none of the passersby are peering into their smartphones, as these had yet to become ubiquitous.

Footage shot on Hi8 tape, later transferred to DVD format, and then converted to iMovie format, which explains the loss of image quality.