
This clip from Australian Diary No. 083 shows the popular beach version of the hokey-pokey that attracted crowds of up to 300 people and the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary where flocks of lorikeets arrive twice a day to be handfed.
In the 1950s the Gold Coast had a local population of 21,000 people that increased to 110,000 during the holiday season. It was a time when the area was on the cusp of major development; now it is Australia's sixth largest city.
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.