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Australasian Gazette: Spectacular Surf Club Parade at Bondi Championships Carnival
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Australasian Gazette: Spectacular Surf Club Parade at Bondi Championships Carnival
NFSA ID
138003
Year
1929
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1929 shows a Scottish pipe band leading the opening parade of a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Surf clubs including North Bondi, Maroubra, Curl Curl, Clovelly, Collaroy and Manly participate. The clip ends with a surf-lifesaving demonstration using the reel, line and belt. Summary by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers.
An Australian icon, Bondi Beach is one of the most famous beaches in the world. Surf-lifesaving began at Bondi in 1906 and surf carnivals have become a strong part of Australian beach culture.
Surf-lifesaving clubs are formed from volunteers that patrol the beach during summer ensuring the wellbeing of its visitors. In this newsreel we see them performing a march past, various sand races and a lifesaving demonstration as part of a surf carnival. This newsreel records the old reel equipment and methods used in lifesaving.
Newsreels were an integral part of cinema programming in Australia before the advent of television in 1956. Issued on a weekly basis, the newsreels enabled people to further engage with local and national political stories and events.
Notes by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.