Surf Beach

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.

[@MrButtonpresser]

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

[@PaulB19677]

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

[@deepbludude4697]

Thats a damn shame, pretty much the same in Florida

[@eugene8524]

Gone were?

[@coolhand1964]

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]

Great memories - thanks for reminiscing with us.

[@manicpixiecoffeelovr]

racism was still pretty strong in the 60s

[@reedbender1179]

and the Cecil Ballroom !✌

[@darioburatovich2240]

1965......yesterday afternoon !!

[@stephentaege6255]

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,🤠🐨🦘🏄🏄🚣🏊

[@andrewmason8691]

This is high quality restoration. Well done.

[@leerobb7733]

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

[@Agislife1960]

Even during the 60's the beaches were packed.

[@darrencottam1146]

Yes people could swim in the sixties,

[@summertime787]

@@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]

@@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]

@@darrencottam1146 sorry

[@summertime787]

@@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]

love the sexy jazz. print is pristine!

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

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

[@summertime787]

@@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]

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

[@yurilemming4130]

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

[@AlanBondFilms]

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

[@keironoconnor3283]

No roids or ink anywhere...

[@NFSAFilms]

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

[@thedave7760]

"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]

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]

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

[@lawrenceshdow]

And way fewer fat people

[@paulnguyen8910]

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.

[@paulinus43ad]

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 .!

[@huyghesvanessa6468]

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

[@humor1095]

The last part sooo true!!!

[@PrinceAndrew100]

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.

[@Handelson]

Back then everybody jumped on the same wave and rode it...try that today you'll get some surly stink eye and mean mugging.. A lot of commenters are reflecting on the easy going surf etiquette that is a thing of the past..

[@MrSonnyjack]

No fat guys in this Time 😅

[@chilbury]

What happen to our Australia??

[@chilbury]

@@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 .....???????????

[@المعلومةالخفية]

@@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]

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

[@PM-do2yu]

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]

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.

[@striker1938]

The good old day's

[@dogstorme9333]

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

[@nuevaholanda1]

magnífica película. very beatiful!!!

[@27011946645]

Newport towards the end!

[@cinemiguel-visionsforinspi3462]

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

[@mistofoles]

Check out those peanut smugglers ! :D

[@kainflynn1430]

The water was cold

[@humor1095]

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

[@noonespecial4171]

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]

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

[@reedbender1179]

@@darioburatovich2240 Keep it a secret please. 🤫(don't mention Burning Palms or Little Marley either 😎)

[@TheChardonPolkaBand]

Is this on the public domain?

[@simonolsen9995]

"[Surf] boards are registered and may only be riden only in special areas marked out by the beach inspectors..." LOL. Rack off Clubby. Still.

[@timevans9427]

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

[@mistofoles]

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

[@reedbender1179]

Relax you're just too TENSE.

[@mistofoles]

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

[@reedbender1179]

Maybe, but a bloody good sign writer🙄

[@NoirL.A.]

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]

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

[@Yorkiedot]

POV: Pvz 2 Big Wave Beach

[@NoTaboos]

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

[@lezzman]

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

[@Yorkiedot]

Narly

[@stephenhobbs1052]

No one is covered in tatts 😂

[@hebneh]

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]

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]

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

[@NFSAFilms]

;)

[@lezzman]

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

[@summertime787]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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.