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Auction History Result 9y261 ENDLESS SUMMER 1sh 1967 iconic John Van Hamersveld art, Bruce Brown surfing classic! Date Sold 9/26/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Endless Summer, the classic 1964 Bruce Brown surfing sports documentary ("A true motion picture about surfing!"; "Filmed in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii and California"; "A Bruce Brown Film in Color"; "On any day of the year it's summer somewhere in the world. Bruce Brown's latest color film highlights the adventures of two young American surfers, Robert August and Mike Hynson who follow this everlasting summer around the world. Their unique expedition takes them to Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii and California. Share their experiences as they search the world for that perfect wave which may be forming just over the next Horizon.") featuring Mike Hynson, Robert August, Lord 'Tally Ho' Blears, Terence Bullen, and Bruce Brown (as narrator). Note that when Bruce Brown first made this documentary, he had already made similar documentary surfing films (first with an 8mm camera, and then with a 16mm camera), starting in the late 1950s. None of those received a nationwide release, but instead were shown wherever Bruce Brown could get them booked (mostly in small venues in southern California)! In 1963, Brown began filming this movie, and it was completed in 1964, and he began showing it in small venues, just like his previous films. He continued showing it to enthusiastic audiences throughout 1965, and in 1966, Columbia Pictures made a deal to give the film a nationwide release, and the first one-sheets for the movie were printed at that time, using the same John Van Hamersveld art that had been on the small posters used in small venues (Bruce Brown was friends with John Van Hamersveld in 1964, and Brown hired him to do the art for the first release small venue posters, because, as Brown has been quoted saying, "He was the only artist I knew"). He paid Van Hamersveld $150 for the art, and it was one of the greatest deals ever made, because it is certainly one of the most iconic images of the 1960s, and this poster image is one of the single most recognizable movie poster images ever made! Artist: John Van Hamersveld Important Added Info: Note that when Bruce Brown first made this documentary, he had already made similar documentary films, and they did not receive a nationwide release, but instead were shown wherever Bruce Brown could get them booked (mostly in small venues in southern California)! He had printed a small 11" x 17 1/4" poster that was distributed for those small venue showings (there was also a small herald-like poster), and in 1967 the movie was picked up by a national distributor (Cinema V) for the wide U.S. release, this poster was used for that national release (that Cinema V one-sheet has the same image as the 11" x 17 1/4" poster, but it has different text and adds reviews at the top above the image). Because Cinema V was a U.S. distributor only, a separate deal was made with Columbia Pictures to distribute the movie outside the U.S., and there is a U.S. international Columbia one-sheet from release. The poster offered here is the first one-sheet created for the 1967 Cinema V release (and there were no one-sheets created prior to this). Condition: good to very good. There is black scuffing in the center of the top horizontal fold and above much of the bottom horizontal fold. There is also black scuffing in portions of the vertical fold that fall in the image (see our image). Clearly, much of this was caused by ink transfer while the poster was folded. There is quite common on examples of this poster. Some have much scuffing in the solid-colored areas of the image and this one has a lesser amount than most examples I have seen. These defects were clearly caused by the printing process used to print this poster. They can be easily corrected by having the poster linenbacked or of course it can be displayed as it is. Learn More about condition grades 
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