Sharpies and Mods - Melbourne 1966

An excerpt from the Australian 1966 ABC TV 'Four Corners' programme episode "Go-Go Where?", looking at the youth culture of Melbourne. In this excerpt the Sharpies and the Mods are featured. Discotheques need to employ bouncers because of brawls that happen between the Sharpies and the Mods. A teenage mod is interviewed about the fights between the Sharpies and the Mods. Sharpies are kept out of teenage discotheques and dances. Sharpies usually wait outside the dances in the dark to pick fights with the mods. A Sharpie is interviewed about how they feel towards the mods and their fights with the Mods. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.