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Commercial filmmaking and
surfing have been linked for
over half a century. Beginning
with Bud “Barracuda” Browne’s
early surf movies like
Hawaiian Holiday, the
genre progressed due to the
efforts of legendary
filmmakers like Bruce Brown
(Endless
Summer), Greg
MacGillivray and Jim Freeman
(Five
Summer Stories). With
the advent of “cutting-edge”
VCR technology in the
eighties, movies about surfing
became the cinematic methadone
wave hounds needed to combat
withdrawal symptoms from long
flat spells or gnarly
injuries. Eventually, cheaper
cameras and an expanding
audience led to a slew of low
to medium budget surf film
classics which continued to
spread the influence of
surfing on an international
scale. Our offering of surf
movies is a healthy cross
section of wave riding on film
and ranges from the classic to
the quirky (check out Captain
Surf and the Tube
Dudes…), any one of
which will make a fantastic
addition to any surf movie
collection.
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