Surfer.com - How Bruce Brown Sold the Best Surf Movie Ever
Celebrating 60 years of surfing's most iconic film.
Close your eyes. Picture the quintessential surf movie.
There’s a good chance that amidst that morass of consciousness, a vision is emerging – one of Mike Hynson and Robert August, lugging their longboards over a South African sand dune, scored to the breezy slide guitar of The Sandals, and stumbling upon a perfect, empty, peeling righthander.
It’s Bruce Brown’s iconic, genre-defining 1964 film, The Endless Summer. And this month, it celebrates its 60th anniversary.