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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 until September of 2012, we did not know this international one-sheet existed! At that time, we were consigned another example of this poster, and now for the second time ever, we have been consigned another one (see below)! 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 after the movie was picked up by a national distributor (Cinema V) for the 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., but U.S. international one-sheets from that Columbia release are incredibly rare (the poster has the same artwork and writing as the Cinema V one-sheet, but it moves the "A TRUE MOTION PICTURE ABOUT SURFING" to the top in large letters, and it makes much better use of the space)!

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