Endless Summer (1966)

Original title

The Endless Summer

Directed by

Bruce Brown

Genre

documentary film, sport film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 135 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two surfers travel around the world in search of perfect waves, visiting beaches in Africa, Australia, and the Pacific. Their trip introduces surfing to local communities and shows the sport in different climates.

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What happens

The Endless Summer is a 1966 American surf documentary film directed, produced, edited and narrated by Bruce Brown. The film follows surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August on a surfing trip around the world. Despite the balmy mediterranean climate of their native California, cold ocean currents make local beaches inhospitable during the winter, without later, modern wetsuits. They travel to the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa in a quest for new surf spots while introducing locals to the sport along the way. The narrative presentation eases from the stiff, formal documentary of the 1950s and early 1960s to a more casual, fun-loving and personal style filled with sly humor, honed from six years of live narration. The film's surf rock soundtrack was provided by the Sandals, and the theme song was written by Gaston Georis and John Blakeley of the Sandals; Theme From "The Endless Summer" has since become one of the best known film themes in the surf movie genre. In 1994, it was followed by the sequel The Endless Summer II. In 2000, Dana Brown, compiled The Endless Summer Revisited, later directing Step into Liquid, in 2003, documenting tow-in surfing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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