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Auction History Result 3b023 ENDLESS SUMMER 29x40 commercial poster '67 Bruce Brown surfing classic, cool day-glo art! Date Sold 12/13/2016 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! Artist: John Van Hamersveld Important Added Info: Note that when this movie was released to theaters in 1967 and became a major hit, "Personality Posters" released an "authorized" 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. Condition: fair to good. The poster was never folded. Like almost all examples of this poster we have seen, there are scuffs scattered throughout the poster (this likely has something to do with the printing or inks used). There is paper loss at upper right. Please see our super-sized image to get a good sense of the condition of this item prior to placing a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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