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The NFSA has a number of home movies of Gold Coast holidays. This clip from the 1970s is an excerpt from home movies shot by Eileen Smith. It features Jack Evans' Porpoise Pool, Bullen's Lion Park,...
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Sea World founder Keith Williams (1929–2011) talks about its origins as a waterski show. Sea World opened on the Gold Coast on 30 October 1971.
A popular tourist destination, the theme park includes...
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This short film by Cate Shortland is a snapshot of a relationship in its last days.
Della (Gillian Jones) exercises to music in her living room while her boyfriend Dale (Aaron Blabey) discusses a...
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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...
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Queensland Playground is a comprehensive look at the Gold Coast during the late 1950s. Produced by the Commonwealth Film Unit (directed by Richard Mason and shot in Vistarama and Eastmancolour), it...
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This lighthearted newsreel story tells of a police raid on a Gold Coast pyjama party in 1959.
Bernie Elsey, a member of the Surfers Paradise Progress Association and owner of the Beachcomber Private...
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This silent newsreel clip shows people sunbaking on the Gold Coast. Warm temperatures and golden sands were a magnet to holidaymakers from the 1950s onwards, swelling the population from around 21,...
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The whale in this news report was fortunate to be rescued by a diving team from Sea World after it got caught in a shark net off the Gold Coast.
Each year, from April to November, whales migrate from...
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This Ten Eyewitness News report from 1989 tells of the first known shark attack to take place in a Gold Coast canal. Ten-year-old Kris Fredriksen was swimming in the water outside his home in Mermaid...
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Can the Gold Coast cope with a dramatic rise in population? This excerpt from the Film Australia documentary Populate or Perish shows the rapid development of the city.
Located south of Brisbane,...