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Australia Today: Hunting shark
Title:
Australia Today: Hunting shark
NFSA ID
242066
Year
1939
Courtesy
Enterprise Film Co.
Shark attacks on populated beaches are statistically not that common in Australia, but they attract sensational media coverage of the type seen in this newsreel.
This clip shows Coogee Beach, protected by a shark-proof enclosure; a man going out hunting for sharks; and a larger trawler which puts forward the ‘fight against the ever present menace of sharks’.
The shark-proof enclosure at Coogee Beach (on the eastern beaches of Sydney) was built in 1929, but was finally dismantled in 1945.
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