Flick Review < The Endless Summer | Bruce Brown, 1966
Narrator: Many of us ride winter and summer, but the ultimate thing for us would be to have an
endless summer. The only way to do this is to travel around the world.
Narrator: Summer means many things to many different people. For us, it’s surfing!
Narrator: What every surfer dreams of finding is a small wave with perfect shape. What we call
a perfect wave. The odds against finding that are 10 million to one.
Narrator: You can go right or left, but you can’t very well do both at once — if you do, it leads to
something commonly known in the surfing world as a “Wipeout”.
Narrator: If you could harness the power of one of these waves, you can light a city for a week.
Narrator: With enough time and enough money, you could spend the rest of your life
following the Summer around the world.
Bruce Brown in The Endless Summer (1965)
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The adventures of two American surfers who follow an everlasting summer around the world – searching for the perfect wave. Filmed in color in Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, and California.
The Endless Summer, 1966
Director / Writer / Cinematography : Bruce Brown
Stars: Robert August, Michael Hynson, Lord James Blears
Music: The Sandals
When The Endless Summer premiered on June 15, 1966, it encouraged many surfers to travel abroad, giving birth to the “surf-and-travel” culture, with prizes for finding “uncrowded surf”, meeting new people and riding the “perfect wave”.
In 1964, fellow surfer John Van Hamersveld was a student at the Art Center College of Design and the art
director of Surfing Illustrated Magazine and Surfer magazine. To produce the image that would become
iconic, he organized a photo session with the producer and the two stars at Salt Creek Beach in Dana
Point. Using photo techniques for the central image and hand-lettering the title Van Hamersveld created
a “national phenomenon” image that has endured as a classic. He was paid $150 for the art.
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