Marriage: Love and Law exhibition catalogue - Flipbook - Page 77
Modern housekeeping appliances were promoted as the answer to reducing
a woman’s labour and increasing family leisure time. The private car—
now affordable to ordinary people—enabled unprecedented mobility.
Motorways linked suburb to city and gave people the best of both worlds.
During the 1950s, the State aimed to stem what authorities feared was a
proliferation of unsuitable unions among young people. Publicity branches
within education and health departments produced and/or distributed social
guidance films to provide young people with advice as they entered adulthood.
Portraying a white, tertiary educated middle class who dwell in modern
suburbia, the films were designed to show young people how to make the
choices that were considered to be morally and socially ‘right’ (58 and 59).
57 Sydney County Council
Queen Victoria Building
window display –‘Every
Bride Appreciates the
Electric Gift’, 8 August 1963
Black and white negative
1963
NSW State Archives,
NRS 21243, image 2555
58 Cumberland County Council
‘You … and the County Plan’
information booklet
Digital reproduction
1946
City of Sydney Archives
58
59
59 Coronet Instructional Films
Are you ready for marriage?
Film
1950
NSW State Archives,
NRS 4911, Film 221
60 Crawley Films
How much affection?
Film
1957
NSW State Archives,
NRS 4911, Film 275
57
60
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