Sidewalk Surfers

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1871

Date Released

12 Apr 1965

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Motocross - Britain against Sweden
2. 2The Stamp of Greatness
3. 3The Launch That Nearly Wasn’t
4. 4Getting the Needle
5. 5Monty Meets the Sky Divers
6. 6Sidewalk Surfers

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sidewalk Surfers. DESCRIPTION: 1964 World Surfboard Champion Australian Midget Farrelly has his own team of Sidewalk Surfers - a group of youngsters who use skate boards, which are miniature dry land surf boards fitted with four plastic rollers to take the place of the real ones. SHOTLIST: MLS man riding surf board through surf to the beach. CU Midget Farrelly with a young fan. CU Farrelly’s hands holding a surf board. MS zoom in team of surfers led by Farrelly practising surfing on dry land. TS ditto. CU pupils’ feet as they practice. CU ditto. TS pupils practising surfing on dry land. MS ditto. MCU pupil jumps onto surfboard and holds balance. CU pupils’ feet pan up to pupil practising surfing.

Keywords

Politics and government

Locations

Australia

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

89567

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

99

Story extras:

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