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.

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.

This short film by Cate Shortland is a snapshot of a relationship in its last days.

This clip from Australian Diary No.

Queensland Playground is a comprehensive look at the Gold Coast during the late 1950s.

This is the trailer to Australian film The Coolangatta Gold, directed by Igor Auzins and released on 22 November 1984, which led to the establishment of the Ironman race of the same name.

This lighthearted newsreel story tells of a police raid on a Gold Coast pyjama party in 1959.

This silent newsreel clip shows people sunbaking on the Gold Coast.

This Movietone News newsreel highlights the attractions of Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in the early 1960s.

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.