The 1962 British Empire and #CommonwealthGames in #Perth introduced a new feature: a purpose-built village for the athletes, as seen in the newsreel excerpt. Commonwealth Games collection: https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/commonwealth-games Published courtesy of Cinesound Movietone Productions. Contact Glenn Eley (glenn_eley@cinesoundmovietone.com.au, 02 9522 4577 or 0418 44 617) for usage rights and fees. | NFSA - National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
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On this day the Perth 1962 Empire and Commonwealth Games began. With just 863 international athletes and nine sports, the VIIth Commonwealth Games Federation Empire and Commonwealth Games, as they were then called, in Perth were a far cry from the modern billion-dollar events of today. But the Games were still a huge event for Australia and the city of just 500,000 at the time. British Pathé have a tremendous video package highlighting the fanfare in Perth around the Games. | Commonwealth Games
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