Surf Beach

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8 жыл бұрын

From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the Commonwealth Film Unit 1965. Directed by Bern Gandy. From beach inspectors watching for danger to the ice cream vendors helping people cool down, Australia’s major beaches in summer have the hustle and bustle of a small town. Surf Beach looks at the proud tradition of surf lifesavers, who give up their weekends voluntarily to patrol our beaches, keeping ordinary folks safe from disaster. Witness the thrilling rescue of a young woman who has got herself into trouble, and the military precision of the surf lifesavers as they bring her back into shore. The highlight of the season is the Surf Life Saving Championships - a marvel of pageantry as surf lifesaving clubs from across Sydney march proudly along the beach, led by the UNSW Regiment brass band. Beautifully shot and set to a swinging soundtrack, Surf Beach pays tribute to an Australian icon: the beach.

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@MrButtonpresser 27 күн бұрын

These days may be behind us, but boy, were they fun to live through.

@coolhand1964 2 жыл бұрын

I played this to my 81 yr old father, he was a North Cronulla Clubbie and l grew up a Cronulla surfie. He teared up after watching it. We all wish we could go back to the 60's and 70's. Life was so simple compared to today. 5c ice creams, salty eyelids and sunburn, zinc cream all over the towel, hot vinyl seats in the car meant you had to sit on a towel or wrap it around you. All windows and the rear window of the wagon down for climate control, trying to be comfortable with boardies full of sand, melted surf wax on everything, and a diet of Chiko Rolls and Coke. Ah the memories. The sands of time are a cruel master.

@NFSAFilms 2 жыл бұрын

Great memories - thanks for reminiscing with us.

@manicpixiecoffeelovr 2 жыл бұрын

racism was still pretty strong in the 60s

@PaulB19677 2 жыл бұрын

This the Australia I once knew and loved. Gone now.

@deepbludude4697 2 жыл бұрын

Thats a damn shame, pretty much the same in Florida

@darioburatovich2240 2 жыл бұрын

1965......yesterday afternoon !!

@stephentaege6255 8 ай бұрын

We still have the best beaches in the world 👍Surf lifesaving a very proud 🇦🇺 tradition 👍my late father started as a nipper thanks for sharing these nostalgic and better times Cheers Stephen from QLD,🤠🐨🦘🏄🏄🚣🏊

@PrinceAndrew100 Ай бұрын

I dont know what some of you are going on about. The beaches are exactly the same today. Some are actually cleaner than back in the old days. You can do exactly the same thing now. Beaches are timeless, go out and enjoy.

@andrewmason8691 Жыл бұрын

This is high quality restoration. Well done.

@leerobb7733 8 жыл бұрын

I was 15 and surfing my 9' Gordon Woods in the designated surfboard area up the south end.Best time of my life.

@Agislife1960 6 жыл бұрын

Even during the 60's the beaches were packed.

@darrencottam1146 4 жыл бұрын

Yes people could swim in the sixties,

@summertime787 4 жыл бұрын

@@darrencottam1146 And the kids didn't have to wear any seatbelts. There was a lot of car crashes and the car would flip over and over down the cliff with the little girls and boys inside and the boys were shirtless and barefooted and the little girls were wearing their two piece swimsuits and everyone was barefooted

@darrencottam1146 4 жыл бұрын

@@summertime787 I don't get the revelence to what I said. I responded to the other person's astonishment that the beaches were packed in the sixties. I don't get what your talking about

@summertime787 4 жыл бұрын

@@darrencottam1146 sorry

@summertime787 4 жыл бұрын

@@darrencottam1146 That I'm the little boy getting out of the back of the station wagon wearing red shorts. It was fun riding in the car shirtless and barefooted and the girls were wearing their two piece swimsuits that shows their stomachs

@spacecadet2827 8 жыл бұрын

love the sexy jazz. print is pristine!

@jesusislukeskywalker4294 2 жыл бұрын

oh and the piano and guitar. those were the days my friend.

@summertime787 2 жыл бұрын

@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 yes they were. I remembered when I was 8 years old and my sister was 15 years old she snuck the keys to this old car and she was driving us to the lake and when she was driving down the mountain the car started sliding and we ran off the road and the car flipped over upside down and both of us was barefooted and I was shirtless and my sister was wearing a bikini top and bottom

@cookiecoby4322 21 күн бұрын

@@summertime787Oh my, great memories, what happened afterwards?

@AlanBondFilms 3 жыл бұрын

I looked closely...we use to go there a lot, Bondi, Tamarama and Bronte as my parents came from around there.

@keironoconnor3283 8 жыл бұрын

No roids or ink anywhere...

@NFSAFilms 8 жыл бұрын

+Keiron Connolly O'Connor Zinke not ink was the look back then.

@thedave7760 6 жыл бұрын

"Natural playgrounds that have been preserved for them" Back in the day Sydney used to pump raw sewage just a short way from the shore. Northern beaches are best.

@danrobinson572 5 жыл бұрын

NFSA Films thanks for the new video a lot better than the other you put out the other day. Keep up the good work love ❤️ this channel lots.

@damienluxford7482 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was my world growing up. It was a better place.

@lawrenceshdow 2 жыл бұрын

And way fewer fat people

@paulnguyen8910 4 жыл бұрын

Filmed at Bondi Beach, where my family stayed last September. My sis, her hubby, and their son was at the Festival of the Winds, a kite-flying festival. That nite, I walked alone along the walkway. Loved it.

@yurilemming4130 5 жыл бұрын

i think I was in the pub when they were surfing.

@huyghesvanessa6468 8 жыл бұрын

i love this video!!!nice color and good time

@cinemiguel-visionsforinspi3462 2 жыл бұрын

Shocked at the amount of rubbish being collected from the beach during that time.

@paulinus43ad 6 ай бұрын

good ole Aussie ,remember it well, beautiful times ,my were the seventies, no show ponies and posers. now so so much I want to be seen crowd ,look at me ,but sorry if I offend but what the hell was so good about Bondi ,sorry northern beaches were the go, its just not the same, its lost. My Australia as i once knew her is lost .!

@nuevaholanda1 8 жыл бұрын

magnífica película. very beatiful!!!

@humor1095 3 жыл бұрын

The last part sooo true!!!

@striker1938 2 жыл бұрын

The good old day's

@mistofoles 2 жыл бұрын

Check out those peanut smugglers ! :D

@kainflynn1430 Жыл бұрын

The water was cold

@27011946645 3 жыл бұрын

Newport towards the end!

@chilbury 8 жыл бұрын

What happen to our Australia??

@chilbury 3 жыл бұрын

@@jackbrumby1892 You cant see the difference ? You cant see our civil liberties have been whittled away slowly, You can't see that mum and dad have to work their arses off to feed their kids and pay off an over priced home? You can't see that inflation is the highest ever since 1965 , You can't see China buying up all our farms? You can't see that we have lost 98% in manufacturing since 1974 when all our Politicians signed the Lima Declaration ? And you can't see muslims takin over parts of Sydney and Melbournes outer suburbs .....???????????

@user-rp2rt6pq6f 3 жыл бұрын

@@chilbury I am Muslim and I love you, don't listen to the propaganda of others , we love this country we part of it we are not taking over we are one people, we all humans we should love each other not fight or kill each other, We don't live in ice age we live in 21 century and these conflicts from past, There is bad and good where ever you go but the only deference is that we under the magnifier of media, I donate blood every 3 month to save people life and I am proud of it and I like it, anyway I hope you stop thinking this way and again I love you.

@chilbury 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-rp2rt6pq6f your faith is satanic!! Not from god but Satan only Jesus can save you

@PM-do2yu 3 жыл бұрын

Multiculturalism. Or at least how it has been implemented. Rather than inculcate new arrivals with the cultural norms here, the message seems to be one of bring all aspects of a flawed culture that’s caused the need to migrate. Everyone should learn English and signage should be in English. Bring the food and the pleasant customs, but check that which isn’t compatible on arrival.

@jesusislukeskywalker4294 2 жыл бұрын

UNITED NATIONS LIMA AGREEMENT 1975. brought in all the satanic weirdos from 3rd world countries to destroy us. some of them have no shame. And others didn't even know they were working for SATAN . so far.

@dogstorme9333 3 күн бұрын

Post war prosperity, the first time people and families could afford the basic things we take for granted in today’s society. Could buy a house for 20k, have next to no mortgage, own 6 of them working in a supermarket Oh the life

@MrSonnyjack 2 жыл бұрын

No fat guys in this Time 😅

@TheChardonPolkaBand 6 ай бұрын

Is this on the public domain?

@timevans9427 2 жыл бұрын

Aussie male to female ratio appears to be 10to1. (not counting the men in women's swim suites)

@mistofoles 2 жыл бұрын

@6:45 - Presumably "Wigwoms" was supposed to say "Wigwams" ( Tents ) - I guess the sign painter was illiterate..

@humor1095 3 жыл бұрын

Sooo clean and not run down like today's bondi, how pathetic!!!

@noonespecial4171 3 жыл бұрын

WHY Bondi is the national beach I do not know. As we know out back there behind the sets is live sewerage LOL These days trying to drive around Bondi is a nightmare. Just don't even go.

@darioburatovich2240 2 жыл бұрын

Royal National Park is far away.....but humble Garie beach is paradise compared to overcrowded Bondi.

@mistofoles 2 жыл бұрын

What's the difference between a wigwam and a tepee ?

@Yorkiedot 2 жыл бұрын

POV: Pvz 2 Big Wave Beach

@Yorkiedot 2 жыл бұрын

Narly

@NoirL.A. 10 ай бұрын

very odd mix of old world british and americana. it's like L.A. but the people who are fully dressed look like U.K. in the 60's. interesting mix. and yeah everybody's white / caucasian. that would not be the case nowadays. nor would everybody be that thin.

@MrsOliva 7 ай бұрын

8:01 Nicole Kidman ?! 😀 That eyes... No, she was born little later.

@NoTaboos 7 жыл бұрын

Emphasis on bloody Bondi yet again. It can't compare with the northern beaches.

@lezzman 5 жыл бұрын

But of course, none of them can compare to the western beaches!

@hebneh 8 жыл бұрын

You wonder how many of these happy sun-kissed people went on to develop skin cancer. Regulations! Militaristic surf clubs, "Swim Only Between Flags", surfboards must be registered.

@reedbender1179 21 күн бұрын

You have never been to our beaches have you? 🙄 the flags are positioned to show the safe area to swim,outside of which there are often rips and uneven sandbars....where drowning more likely. Militaristic Surf Clubs...🤣 yeah right...volunteer lifesavers who will risk their life to save yours. More people have got cancer from excessive use of chemical sunblocks than Zinc cream.👋

@adrianjackson2696 6 жыл бұрын

11:30 that will teach her. She should be siting on the sand like we two girls and looking pretty instead.

@NFSAFilms 6 жыл бұрын

;)

@lezzman 5 жыл бұрын

Naa...she knew exactly what she was doing! :P

@summertime787 4 жыл бұрын

@@lezzman At 6:09 that is dangerous letting the little boys ride in the car without a seatbelt on. There are no safety rails on the mountain roads. And the boys were only 9 years old and a teenage girl was driving the old car. What if something happened to the car and it lost it's brakes it would have ran over the edge of the mountain and flipped over and over down the cliff with the little boys and the teenage girl inside and everyone was barefooted and the boys were shirtless

@summertime787 4 жыл бұрын

@@lezzman me and my friend are 9 years old and my sister is 16 and she was driving us home from the beach in her little truck and since it was really hot out my big sister let me and my friend ride in the truck with her and both of us were shirtless and my sister was wearing her bikini top and bottoms and she was driving the truck barefooted because me and my friend was barefooted in the truck. It was really dark and rainy when my big sister was driving down the mountain and a huge truck was behind us and his lights were blinding my sister and she was screaming she can't see anything that truck is going to make me crash. We were all scared because there are no safety rails on the mountain and the truck could easily go over the edge of the mountain and it will flip over and over down the cliff

@lezzman 4 жыл бұрын

@@summertime787 Okay. That is truly terrifying but I don't quite understand why you are telling me all this. It really had nothing to do with what I was saying.