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RIP: Bruce Brown, 1937-2017: Iconic California surf filmmaker passes away (The Endless Summer)
Surfline ^ | December 11, 2017 | Drew Kampion

Posted on 12/11/2017 8:08:25 AM PST by EveningStar

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To: onedoug

Love that movie!


21 posted on 12/11/2017 9:15:39 AM PST by stylecouncilor ("The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra)
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To: EveningStar
TCM's late Robert Osborne had Bruce Brown on a few years ago for a retrospective. Mr. Brown dissed Hollywood, dissed all the stars, dissed all the directors. Ever friggin one. It was quite funny! That old lovable poofter Osborne was gobsmacked and could only offer up quiet nervous "laughs" in response: "heh heh heh heh …"

RIP Bruce. Bruce was a true rebel and a genuine all-American nonconformist.
 

22 posted on 12/11/2017 9:28:54 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: stylecouncilor

Me too!

RIP, Bruce Brown.


23 posted on 12/11/2017 9:38:43 AM PST by onedoug
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To: EveningStar

I saw that movie when I was quite young. They played it at the “Free Show” in our village. Sitting on a blanket in the Free Show lot with a bread bag full of popcorn and a bottle of Coke on a beautiful, warm Summer evening. Good times.

The Endless Summer was one of only two movies I remember from seeing all those Free Shows.

RIP.


24 posted on 12/11/2017 9:50:33 AM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: EveningStar

Although very interested in the surfing scene at the time, I somehow missed this movie in ‘66 when it came out.

I did, however, see it a couple of years ago (TV). And for the 90-odd minutes the movie lasted, I found I was back in 1966, a 17 year old without a care in the world, getting ready to head off to college.

It was great!

And like a previous poster stated, it was (is) a reminder of just what America was like at that time.

We need stuff like that, reminders of that from whence we came.

Wish I had recorded that when it came on...

CA....


25 posted on 12/11/2017 9:51:11 AM PST by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: EveningStar

The clothing and sports styles and interests for young people, have been heavily influenced by surfing culture, etc. “Extreme sports” came from these origins.

Surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding have spread around the entire world.

It began in the 1950s with a small cult of watermen (and a few girls) in SoCal and Hawaii.

Actually a guy named George Freeth brought surfing to California from Hawaii, in 1907.

BTW there is a follow up film, titled “Endless Summer II” in 1994, also by Bruce Brown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_Summer_II


26 posted on 12/11/2017 10:01:13 AM PST by truth_seeker
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To: EveningStar
Theme Song (played by The Ventures)
27 posted on 12/11/2017 11:31:26 AM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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