This short documentary examines the 1970 World Surfing Championship staged at Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia.
This film ran as a support feature for another film by director Tim Burstall, the box-office hit Stork (1971).
Tim Burstall has said of this film in Melbourne's "The Age" newspaper published on Wednesday 30 May 2001: "It's always been left off surf filmographies because it took a sociological look...It wasn't just about the waves...It was a very dark day during the [Surfing] final so we shot in black and white and threw some color at it later...We fooled around with a lot of experiments in the lab." On the surfing culture, Burstall said of the surfers: "They felt as though they were outsiders practicing a very exacting sort of art form...They rather liked the idea that somebody was trying to understand the phenomenon".
This film exists in two versions: A shortened form running 26 minutes and a full version running 55 minutes.
This film premiered on Australia's Boxing Day holiday (26 December) in 1971.