Northland Shopping Centre, Melbourne Australia, 1968 | 16mm Film Print

Northland Shopping Centre is located in the Melbourne Australia suburb of East Preston.

This film was made a couple of years afterf the Centre’s 1966 opening, the first indoor shopping mall in the state of Victoria. Built and owned by the Myer Emporium, it was sold to the Gandel Group in 1983 and is currently owned by GPT and Vicinity Group, and has seen substantial increase in size and several refits.
Across the road can be glimpsed the Olympic Twin Drive In that opened in 1964. The name changed to Northland Twin Drive In, operated by Village, in 1966 and closed in 1987, just after Hoyts opened their #Northland cinemas in the shopping centre across the road.

Although the film print was substantially unstable and damaged, it has been brought back to a reasonable level in this recent edit. No attempt was made to remove scratching and other blemishes at this stage.

Notably the film stock used, #Ferrania P27 16mm, was held in high regard at the time, and its reputation survived a long period of being obsolete and unavailable, until last year when a new company was formed in Italy to resuscitate the brand and the stock type, with predominantly a P30 tag.
Photographers have expressed a keen desire to apply the stock to still and movie use, from Super 8mm, 16mm and 35mm gauges.The digital transfer was done on a new generation #Retroscan Mark II scanner, manufactured in the USA by the Moviestuff company.