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9 unusual facts about The Endless Summer


Bells Beach, Victoria

Bells Beach is visited in the 1966 documentary film The Endless Summer.

Butch Van Artsdalen

Because of his talents, Van Artsdalen was featured in several early surf films by Dale Davis and Bruce Brown, the most notable of which was The Endless Summer.

Corky Carroll

Bruce Brown invites Corky to join the The Endless Summer promotional tour in order to promote the most famous surf movie of all time.

Don Rubbo

At the advertising giant, Diener, Hauser & Greenthal, Don Rubbo was the creative force behind the iconic images for movie posters, designing the images for The Godfather,( 1972), The Endless Summer (1968), Clockwork Orange (1971), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), among others.

Jimmy Blears

Jimmy Blears was born in California the oldest son of former NWA and WWA pro-wrestling champion, Lord James "Tally-Ho" Blears, also an avid surfer who appeared in the seminal surfing documentary, The Endless Summer.

Pointe des Almadies

The Almadies peninsula was a featured location in the 1964 film The Endless Summer where Bruce Brown shot the film's stars Mike Hynson and Robert August at a reef near Pointe des Almadies.

Puerto Chicama

Like filmmaker Bruce Brown creating "Endless Summer" about the same time, Shipman was seeking a "perfect wave", superior to the known surfing spots of the period.

The Endless Summer II

The Endless Summer II is a 1994 film directed by Bruce Brown and is a sequel to his 1966 film The Endless Summer.

Windansea Beach

The Windansea Surf Club featured was founded by Chuck Hasley in 1962, and included members such as The Endless Summer star and first Vice President Mike Hynson, Skip Frye, Joey Cabell, Del Cannon, Mike Purpus and Rusty Miller, Andy Tyler, Tom Ortner, Brew Briggs, Chris O'Rourke, Richard Kenvin, Miko Fleming, Debbie Beacham, Peter King, Saxon Boucher, Randy Lind, Ian Rotgans, "Big George" Felactu & Longboard Larry.


Runaround Sue

G-Eazy sampled the song in his 2011 album The Endless Summer.

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).


see also

Bruce Brown

These short films along with some unused footage from The Endless Summer were included in the DVD Surfin' Shorts, as part of the Golden Years of Surf collection.