This clip is from a 1988 promotional film for the Australian company Piping Hot Wetsuits, titled Strike Force. 

'Ma’ Bendall tells us how she was one of the first women to take up surfing when she was over 50 years old. She tells her story over wonderful 1960s black-and-white footage of her surfing.

This image is a still from the film Bondi Tsunami (2003) - the first Japanese surfing road movie in Australia. The film follows four characters Shark, Yuto, Kimiko and Gunja man,

Interviews with the first woman surfer Isabel Letham, who tells how she first got on a surfboard in 1914, and Graham Cassidy, then president of the Australian Professional Surfing Association.&nbsp

First section of the newsreel, covering the National Stomp Championships of Feb 1964.