Check out Snoopy Surfing in the blow up pool and the Peanuts skateboard gang. Did they invent the OLLIE while jump roping? Sure looks like it!
Via SURFSTYLEY4
Check out Snoopy Surfing in the blow up pool and the Peanuts skateboard gang. Did they invent the OLLIE while jump roping? Sure looks like it!
Via SURFSTYLEY4
Bronte surfers take to the local footpaths on skateboards in 1976, filmed by David Clifton. All footage courtesy of David Clifton.
Via Gary Crockett
I filmed this skateboarding footage using a Super 8 movie camera in the mid 1970’s around the Cronulla area. I’m hoping some locals might recognize themselves! Enjoy!
Via ramdarook
Early skateboarding from Jamie Budge’s surf film THE LIVING CURL.
Via Márcio Benevides
Skaterdater is a 1965 American short film. It was Produced by Marshal Backlar, and written and directed by Noel Black and was the winner of the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. It was also nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Short Subject category. First prizes in international film festivals including Moscow and Venice.
The film tells a story with no dialogue. The surf rock-esque soundtrack was composed by Mike Curb and Nick Venet with Davie Allan and the Arrows playing “Skaterdater Rock”.
It was the first film on skateboarding. It was distributed theatrically, both domestically and internationally, by United Artists. It was reviewed extensively, including “Time Magazine”.
The skateboarders were members of the neighborhood Imperial Skateboard Club from Torrance, California. Their names are Gary Hill, Gregg Carrol, Mike Mel, Bill McKaig, Gary Jennings, Bruce McKaig and Rick Anderson. Most of the action shots were taken in Torrance, Redondo Beach, and Palos Verdes Estates. The final shot was Averill Park in San Pedro. (Via Wikipedia)
Via Primitivewild
Super8 footage of the beginnings of the spanish skateboarding scene.
Filmación inéditas en Super8 de los inicios del skate en España. Imagenes de José Antonio (Caribbean Sport Shop).
Localizaciones:
- Arenys de Munt
- Nuevos Ministerios (Madrid)
- Las Rozas
Comercial da Pepsi, feito em 1976, com skatistas andando na ladeira do Sumaré em São Paulo.
Fonte Leandro Padraxx via arquivo MauroRVeiga
1970s skateboarding compilation
Song: More than a feeling – Boston
Fonte Márcio Benevides via Skaters

Hobie Alter 1965
O surfista Hobie Alter (Hobie Cats) andando de skate motorizado em 1965, na Pacific Cost Highway, Califórnia, USA.
Fonte 1950s Malibu Parents Photographic Society