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3 unusual facts about Five Summer Stories


Feel Flows

The song was used in the 1972 surfing documentary Five Summer Stories.

Five Summer Stories

Five Summer Stories is a surfing film by Jim Freeman and Greg MacGillivray starring David Nuuhiwa, Eddie Aikau, Gerry Lopez, and Sam Hawk.

ZJ Boarding House

One summer they set up an outdoor showing of the surfing film, Five Summer Stories.


Surf film

The sporting documentary was pioneered by Bud Browne (e.g. "Hawaiian Holiday") in the 1940s and early 1950s, and later popularized by Bruce Brown (e.g. "The Endless Summer") in the late 1950s and early 1960s, then later perfected by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman (e.g. "Five Summer Stories") in the 1970s and beyond (MacGillivray and Freeman later went on to film IMAX movies such as To Fly! and Speed).


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