High Ground

An historical overview of building development in the City of Melbourne culminating in the building of 101 Collins Street. Some fascinating archival footage is used to illustrate how the top end of Collins Street and the city in general developed as “the high ground”.

How to watch

This work has not been digitised and is currently unavailable to view online. It may be possible for approved reseachers to view onsite at ACMI.

Learn more about accessing our collection

Collection

In ACMI's collection

Credits

director

John McIntosh

Duration

01:00:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1989

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324663

Language

English

Subject categories

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Urbanization

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Victoria

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Urbanization

Crafts & Visual Arts → Architecture

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Urbanization

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Educational films

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Australia

History → Urbanization

Places → Victoria

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Please note: this archive is an ongoing body of work. Sometimes the credit information (director, year etc) isn’t available so these fields may be left blank; we are progressively filling these in with further research.

Cite this work on Wikipedia

If you would like to cite this item, please use the following template: {{cite web |url=https://acmi.net.au/works/80635--high-ground/ |title=High Ground |author=Australian Centre for the Moving Image |access-date=1 October 2023 |publisher=Australian Centre for the Moving Image}}

Australia, 1989

Please note