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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 this is a very unusual item from this classic movie, as it is unclear exactly what it is! It might be a souvenir program book that was given out to those who saw the movie, or it might be an exhibitor promotional brochure that was sent to theaters to try to get them to book the movie, or it could even be something else (but it has no price on it, so it seems unlikely it was sold). Also, there were at least three versions of this made. One by Cinema V for the domestic release of the movie, and one made by Columbia for the international release. The Columbia version has a much larger image of the art on the cover, but otherwise, the two are very similar. The third version doesn't have either Columbia or Cinema V anywhere on it, and the back cover has a tie-in ad for "Hang-Ten" surfwear and it congratulates Bruce Brown. A knowledgeable collector tells us that the third version was given out at non-theatrical showings (his came from a high school in Whittier, California prior to June of 1966). If anyone knows more about these items, please e-mail us and we will post it here. This auction is for the Columbia version.

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