The Endless summer

United States, 1966

Film
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Episode of Series “The Golden years of surf collection”.
The archetypal surfing film of the 1960’s, Bruce Brown defied all odds to produce one of the most successful feature-length documentary films in movie history. Filmed on locations world-wide, with diverting tongue-in- cheek narrative by Brown, we follow two surfers’ quest for the ultimate wave. The heady surfing days of the sixties are forever captured in this classic.

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Credits

director

Bruce Brown

production company

Bruce Brown Films

Duration

01:28:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1966

Appears in

The Golden years of surf collection

Group of items

The Golden years of surf collection

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

304614

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Sea in motion pictures

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - United States

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - United States

Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Surfing

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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