Once Brown got back to the states, he edited his footage into an hour-long film. While serving in the United States Navy on Oahu years later, he used an 8 mm movie camera to photograph surfers from California. He took still photographs to show his mother what the draw of the sport was. īruce Brown started surfing in the early 1950s. In 2000, Dana Brown, compiled The Endless Summer Revisited, later directing Step into Liquid, in 2003, documenting tow-in surfing. In 1994, it was followed by the sequel The Endless Summer II. The film's surf rock soundtrack was provided by The Sandals, and the theme song was written by Gaston Georis and John Blakeley of the Sandals Theme From "The Endless Summer" has since become one of the best known film themes in the surf movie genre. The narrative presentation eases from the stiff, formal documentary of the 1950s and early 1960s to a more casual, fun-loving and personal style filled with sly humor, honed from six years of live narration. They travel to the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, Senegal ( Dakar), Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa in a quest for new surf spots while introducing locals to the sport along the way. Despite the balmy mediterranean climate of their native California, cold ocean currents make local beaches inhospitable during the winter, without later, modern wetsuits.
The film follows surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August on a surfing trip around the world. The Endless Summer is a 1966 American surf documentary film directed, produced, edited and narrated by Bruce Brown.
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