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Auction History Result 8d513 ENDLESS SUMMER day-glo 29x40 commercial poster '67 Bruce Brown surfing classic, cool art! Date Sold 6/21/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Unfolded Commercial Poster (made to be sold directly to the public; measures 29 1/4" x 40" [74 x 102 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! If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that when this movie was released to theaters in 1967 and became a major hit, "Personality Posters" released a day-glo version commercial poster of just the classic John Van Hamersveld art, and it was an extremely popular poster in surf shops, but also in all sorts of other stores (comic book stores, head shops, etc). Obviously, it was incredibly popular, because we have seen three different variations (they all measure extremely close to 30" x 40", but each of the three has very slight copyright information differences in the bottom left corner). But the vast majority of these were surely pinned to bedroom or dorm room walls, and very few survive, and it is a very rare and desirable poster. We have only auctioned it three times, and now we are auctioning it for a fourth time! Condition: good. The poster has many creases, tears, scuffs, and some stains around the edges. It has a 4" tear near the center of the bottom border that has conservation tape on the back. It has a 3" piece of very old masking tape on the back of the bottom right corner, and it has bled through to the front. It has a 1 1/2" tear in the center of the top border that has conservation tape on the back of it. It has "crinkle" marks and scuffs scattered through the image. While this poster has very clear defects, some people might choose to display it just as it is, because it certainly shows "its age" and that it is clearly from 1967. Others might choose to have it professionally restored. Bear in mind the above defects and the potential restoration costs before placing a bid on this poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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