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Pushing Beds for Charity – and a World Record
Title:
Pushing Beds for Charity – and a World Record
NFSA ID
28908
Year
1961
Courtesy
Cinesound Movietone Productions
This Cinesound newsreel clip shows a bed-pushing marathon and fundraising event.
The four young men from Adelaide who took on this challenge pushed the bed an incredible 320 miles, eclipsing the previous world record of 280 miles set in Canada.
All monies raised were for the National Heart Fund.
The clip also mentions that they sold hundreds of autographs signed by swimming sensation Dawn Fraser along the way, to raise extra funds.
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.