Glenelg beach

Created by Percival Moody 1931-32.

Use for any purpose requires written permission from Mr Bill Moody and the State Library of South Australia.

Moody filmed historic South Australian events, occasions and attractions between 1929-1950, and raised funds for charity through public film screenings.

Here we see beach life at Glenelg in the early 1930s.

Firstly, scenes from the foreshore taken in 1931. Moody captures a large array of beachgoers and then takes in views of the buildings and streetscapes of Jetty Road and the Esplanade as well as shots of Luna Park.

This is followed by footage of a surf life-saving competition in 1932.

For more information about this film see http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=4903

The Library has endeavoured to identify and contact all copyright holders for this material. The Library invites people who believe they are further copyright holders to contact Library staff to discuss usage of this item.

Contact details: http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=261

Category:

Travel & Events

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• state
• library
• south
• australia
• SA
• Memory
• Adelaide
• Glenelg
• beach
• jetty
• road
• Luna
• Park
• 1930s
• Percival
• Moody
• beachgoers
• swimming
• sea
• surf
• life-saving
• life-savers
• competitions

[MrJamesBond007]

Glenelg had better attractions 80 nyears ago than today. That roller coaster would've been awesome. Why did they ever get rid of it? I rode past that location just the other day.

[lotus1668]

Thankyou for sharing..Great footage.. wish we could turn back time for 1 day!

[davidadelaide]

Fantastic!

[DollsOfTheValley]

That's amazing footage! Thanks for sharing it's a shame more people don't have a look as it's a true picture of parts of our history.