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Earliest Surf footage in the UK found

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  • 02-12-2011 4:04pm
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    Mickeroo
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    Just saw this, they don't exactly rip it up but its a nice little bit of surf history nonetheless. There's even a shot in it that looks like it was filmed on a go-pro :P Can't embed the video (click here to see it) but here's an excerpt from the article:
    Dating back to 1929, the footage shows Lewis Rosenberg, who was inspired to carve an 8ft (2.4-metre) board out of balsa wood after seeing film of surfers in Australia.

    He and three friends travelled from their homes in London to Newquay in north Cornwall and leapt into the waves.

    The footage was passed on to Rosenberg's daughter, Sue Clamp, who kept it in her attic until recently rediscovering it and handing it over to the Museum of British Surfing in Braunton, north Devon.

    Peter Robinson, the founder of the museum, said: "When Sue visited one of our exhibitions and told us the family had film of surfing exploits on a wooden longboard in the late 20s we were totally blown away.

    "We took the reels of fragile 9.5mm stock to the local film archive for them to be preserved and transferred to digital tape ... It was only then we realised just how special this film is. It is a national treasure as it shows the earliest recorded footage of surfing in Britain.

    "We knew that belly boarding was happening at this time but this film is very significant. Lewis and his friends appear to have seen standing up surfing on a newsreel from Australia and just thought: 'We would like to have a go at that.'

    "He was a highly inventive man. Not only did he create a surfboard with no references to draw from, but he also created a waterproof cover for his camera and actually took it out on the water. This has changed how the surfing community view their history."
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