At The Beach

Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1971. Directed by Wayne LeClos. A simple film about Australia which concentrates on the Australians' love of the surf and the beach. Scenes at Australian metropolitan beaches of crowds of people sunbathing, skylarking, swimming and surfing. Made from material originally shot for Expo 70 (Japan).

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[kensington25]

Brilliant. I love these historical films :)

[FILMAUSTRALIA]

@kensington25 Thanks, we have plenty more to come. Keep watching.

[unkiemonk]

Fast forward 40 years....Chinese tourists drowning...Lebanese punks starting fights...English tourists with third degree sunburn...

[astonbrock]

Not a lot of overweight people back then.

[frpetermark]

Marvellous trip down memory lane to the time of my youth to a very different Australia. I wonder whether any of today's generation would spot the one very obvious thing - no non-European faces among the beach crowd. Yet a generation before, my mother was asked ro leave a beach by the Beach Inspector for wearing a 2-piece cossie, and even before that my grandma scandalized her wowser mother-in-law by daring to wear a sleeveless swimming costume - the hussey! How the times do change. Thanks.

[kensington25]

@FILMAUSTRALIA Looking very forward to them :)