McKenzie, Roger and Kent, Bernie: Silent Car Trip Australia
Curator's clip description
by Poppy de Souza
A Surfers Paradise title card opens this segment which includes shots of typical Queensland holiday units, hotels and motels, and swimming pools. The main streets are filled with billboards and signs, motels, cafes and pubs. The 'Beachcomber' nightclub is shown and a '60s style brick holiday apartment block. A brief view of the beach ends this clip.
Curator's notes
An ever-popular tourist destination on Queensland's Gold Coast known for its coastline, shopping, nightlife, and dining, Surfers Paradise has expanded exponentially since the 1960s. The beginnings of the phenomenon that is Surfers Paradise today can be clearly seen in this clip. Billboards for Qantas and Ansett-ANA perch on top of buildings, neon signs adorn the fronts of restaurants and night clubs, and holiday apartments and hotels (with must-have outdoor pool area) abound.
One of the fantastic things about edited home movies is their often creative use of title cards and intertitles. They reveal the personal investment put into creating a cohesive narrative or sequence and reveal a little about the character of the creator. The title cards in this home movie all have colour picture postcards as their background, each carefully picked to suit the style of place which follows. The title card for this segment, for example, is extremely apt -- a row of smiling beachgoers.
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