The Beach: The strangest of all encounters

Title:

The Beach: The strangest of all encounters

NFSA ID

449768

Year

2000

Summary

Narrated by David Wenham, this clip explores significant landmarks in the history of the interaction between Australian culture and the beach.

CREDITS

Director

Don Featherstone

Australian culture

Australian literature

beach culture

beaches

cultural identity

Gallipoli

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures

painting

recreation

surfing

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.

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