Bungala Boys is a 1961 children's film directed and written by Jim Jeffrey.
Meillon was formerly assistant fiction editor of The Australian Women's Weekly.
The book was based on her brother's founding of Newport Surf Club, on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
[2] The film was shot on location at Bungan Beach and at Artransa Studios in Sydney in April–May 1961.
[4] The film was released in the United Kingdom, Canada and Europe before Australia.