A short newsreel item from 1963, outlining police efforts to curb gang violence between outer suburban ‘rockers’ and surfers at Manly beach.

Commentator John Moyes explains that men are making surfboards out of plywood. A line of surfers carry their boards down to the shore and paddle out towards the breakers.

This clip documents the spectacle of a large surf carnival on Bondi Beach in approximately 1929. The surf clubs march on the sand and lifesavers give a resuscitation demonstration.

A cartoon adventure featuring Captain Goodvibes, the pig of steel, and his sidekick Astro. You can watch Hot to Trot here in its entirety.

The summer of 1963-64 saw a brief flowering of Australian surf music.

An early summer morning on an almost empty Bondi Beach in Sydney.

Surfing may well be a quintessential Aussie pastime but who introduced us to the modern-day art of boardriding?

Tracy (Bojana Novakovic) is being passed over the heads of her friends at a party.

A newsreel segment about a 1920 surf carnival in Newcastle. 300 members of leading Sydney Surf Clubs compete in an annual surf carnival.

Watch a classic newsreel about the 1960s origins of Ugg boots and the Australian surfer who popularised them.