Walk On The Wet Side
Discover the earliest days of California surfing in this 1961 Dale Davis classic.. See the men who made surfing what it is today as they explore a pristine coast. Starring Mickey Dora, Midget Farley, Lance Carson, and Johnny Fain. Travel to Hawaii as Greg Noll, Phil Edwards, Rusty Miller and other surfing legends make surfing history in Hawaii's juice. 60 min
Strictly Hot
Surfing in the `60s became the biggest fad ever to sweep America. From Pipline to Sunset Beach, or Rincon and Malibu in California, you'll experience a surfing culture at its prime. Mickey Dora and Johnny Fain battle it out at the big Malibu contest of 1963. You'll also catch Greg Noll, Dewey Weber, Rusty Miller and a long list of others surfing the uncrowded waves during one of the best eras in surfing history. From the mid 1960's. 55 min.
Waterlogged
The best waves andiriders from four years of globe-spanning surf photography!Features highlights from his first four films and spotlights some of the best from four years of surf photography while three of his best short films are collected in Surfin' Shorts, featuring "The Wet Set" (with the Hobie-MacGregor Surf Team), "America's Newest Sport" (with Hobie Super Surfer Skateboard Team) and an early TV special including the first surf trip to Japan with 12-year-old Peter Johnson and Del Cannon in a segment filmed but not used for "The Endless Summer." You'll never want to touch dry land again!
Surfing Hollow Days
The fourth movie Bruce Brown made travels to Mexico, California and Florida, along with a trip to Australia and Hawaii with Phil Edwards. Features a fifteen-foot shark checking the line-up at Rincon and the first wave ever ridden at Pipeline. Time to hang ten with another of Brown's outstanding surf films--it's almost better than being there!
Surf Crazy
"SURF CRAZY was my second surf film. It was 1959. Eisenhower was President. Hawaii had just become a state and sputniks orbited the Earth while American rockets blew up with great regularity at Cape Canaveral. Most surfboards were still made of balsa wood and surfers were rarely found outside of Hawaii and California. Since my first film, Slippery When Wet, actually made a profit - two dollars - I figured I'd found a career and set out to make another film. SURF CRAZY, I decided, should feature more adventure and Mexico seemed the logical choice. There were thousands of miles of unexplored surf on the vast coastline and gasoline in Mexico was only 25 cents a gallon, which suited my budget just fine. No surfer to my knowledge had searched for surf much south of Mazatlan. We went all the way to Acapulco. Even when the surf wasn't much good, we were stoked. After all, it was the tropics with warm water and swaying palms, and we were the first ever to ride these waves. We drove 7,000 miles in a '57 Ford that had already turned over its odometer once. We visited some places that turned out, in later years, to be premier surf spots. I guess there wasn't much of a swell running when we were there, but that's the nature of surf - sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. We did find surf the winter of 1959-60 on the North Shore of Oahu. I think that winter at Waimea had some of the biggest surf ever ridden, even to this day." -Bruce Brown
Slippery When Wet
"It was the summer of 1958. I was a 20-year-old lifeguard in San Clemente, California, which to date is the only real job I've ever held. At nights I worked as a glorified janitor at Dale Velzy's surf shop. Occasionally, while I swept up, Dale would show an 8mm surf film I'd made while stationed on a submarine in Hawaii. He charged 25 cents, and on a big night we'd rake in as much as six dollars. Dale, however, being one of surfing's great characters, envisioned bigger and better things for me. We spent the summer negotiating about making a "real" (16mm) surf film. He'd pay for it and I would make it. Eventually Velzy put up $5,000 which was to include, among other things, camera equipment, 50 rolls of film, six plane tickets to Hawaii and my living expenses until the film was completed. I looked for some surfers who not only wanted a free plane ticket to Hawaii, but who could afford to pay their own expenses once there. I found Del Cannon, an old friend; Henry Ford and Freddy Pfhaler, two well-known surfers from the South Bay; Kemp Aaberg, a hot, up-and-comer; and Dick Thomas, who was the only one of us old enough to have an ID. We boarded the plane for the 12-hour flight to Hawaii which gave me plenty of time to read my book, "How to Make a Movie." Remember Slippery When Wet is 42 years old - it was my first film - I was only 20 years old - so gimme a break!" -Bruce Brown
Barefoot Adventure
"By 1960 I had the making of my surf films down to a science, which was, basically, work my guts out. If the film was done right it looked effortless. People would say, "Boy, making that movie must have been a lot of fun." Somehow they'd be oblivious to the fact that I'd spent twelve hours a day for the last four months in an editing room and had skin the color of a man who's been locked in a closet for six years. Getting these old films ready for video release brought back a lot of those memories. Like my other surf movies, the original elements of BAREFOOT ADVENTURE - film, narration, music - lay in bits and pieces in my attic. Most of the film had been taken apart for use in other projects. Weeks were spent opening unmarked film cans and viewing old surfing footage in search of missing shots. The shots, once found, were often held together by paper tape which, after 30 years, had turned to rock and fossilized onto the film. Removing the tape meant soaking the end of each shot in film cleaner for ten to twenty-five minutes until the tape softened from granite to mud and could be safely scraped off. I figure it took sixty hours of sitting in a darkened room, getting goofy from the fumes, just to remove the tape. I held up well under the strain, mainly because my son, Dana, did most of the work. Looking at BAREFOOT ADVENTURE I am still amazed how good Del Cannon was as an amateur actor. Dana refers to Del as the "Sir Lawrence Olivier of surf films" which hits the nail on the head and shows that film cleaner fumes don't cause brain damage." -Bruce Brown
Surfers Journal BiosVol. 6. Robert August & Wingnut
This surfing video dvd reveals how having learned the lifestyle from surf legend father, Blackie , Robert August went on to become one of the most recognizable figures in the surf world via his starring role in The Endless Summer. August rode his Hap Jacobs log to high acclaim throughout the í60s, and his loose-limbed, controlled style became a benchmark of California Cool. Now familiar to a whole new generation thanks to ESII, August runs a thriving surfboard company, splitting his time between Huntington Beach and Costa Rica. Wingnut is cast from the same mold. Always up for a good time, his infectious demeanor and legit-by-any-measure surfing skills are a good matchup with August, who happens to be his traveling partner. Learning to surf on a heavy longboard in the late-80s, no less, Weaver became one of the coast's finest exemplars of classic noseriding. It came as no surprise that he was picked for a role in Endless Summer II, and with Pat OConnel as a foil, he surfed his way into theatres around the globe. Join us as we track the careers of two of surfing's most well-rounded participants.
Surfers Journal Biographies, Vol. 3. Joel Tudor & Nat Young
A surfing video with what might appear to be an unlikely biographical pairing is in fact the study of an audacious mentor and his equally audacious pupil. Bound by friendship, philosophy, and choice of equipment, 22-year-old Joel Tudor and 50-something Nat Young have become spokesmen for the surfing tribe and frequent travel-mates. While Nat was key in bringing about the shortboard revolution in the í60s, he remains one of longboard surfings purest exponents. Joel Tudor represents the other side of the coin. Residing at the top of long boarding’s late 20th century revival, Joel also became a talented short boarder at such indicator breaks as Pipeline and Cloudbreak. So here is Nat Young, brilliant, outspoken, an Australian national hero who could likely describe himself as the greatest surfer ever ñ and be not far wrong. Then there's the Tudor paradox ñ a prodigy's passion for surfing's past as applied to the now. Although separated in age by three decades, these two share a common drive to push the boundaries of modern surfing.
Great Waves Vol. 7. Australia: North Narrabeen, Kirra Point & Bells Beach
Volume 7 from The Journal's landmark surfing video series about the world's great wave and their influence on our surfing culture. For almost 40 years, Australian surfers have greeted the world as talented, outspoken and adaptable, and this has everything to do with the near-endless variety of Down Under beaches and surf spots. Three of Australiaís best-known breaks ñ Queenslandís Kirra Point, Victoriaís Bellís Beach, and North Narrabeen in New South Wales ñ are presented in this edition of the Surferís Journal. Watch 15í surf at Bells for the 1981 Rip Curl Pro. Cringe at the rough dominance of the North Narrabeen Boardriders Club in the 1970s. Rock back and forth and moan softly as Gold Coast surfers race inside the tube at Kirra for 50 yards at a stretch. A capsule history is offered foreach spot, along with a generous collection of details and anecdotes. Over 100 interviews were taped for the 1998 "Great Waves" series, and on-screen comments for the Australian shows come from Wayne Lynch, Mark Richards, Wayne Bartholomew, Tom Carroll, Cheyne Horan, Jack Mayes, Peter Townend, Damien Hardman, Barton Lynch, Ian Cairns, Nathan Hedge, Mark Warren, Gordon Woods, Mark Occhilupo, Shaun Tomson, Kelly Slater, Gerry Lopez, Terry Fitzgerald, Simon Anderson, Peter Drouyn, Barton Lynch and others.
Great Waves Vol. 5 California: Malibu, Huntington Beach & Mavericks
Volume 5 from The Journal's landmark surfing video series about the world's great waves and how they affect our surfing culture.Surfing was born in Hawai'i, but raised in California. This is where it was glamorized, industrialized, packaged, marketed and sold. Hollywood put surfing on the big screen. Capital Records helped make it the soundtrack for teenage baby-boomers. The surf media was invented here. California, in other words, corrupted the sport -- even as it helped it develop and evolve. Throughout the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of surfers fanned out across the state coastline, riding waves and having a great time. Meanwhile, the California style was being reproduced in Australia, Japan, Peru, England, South Africa and beyond -- and in many ways California is still the sportís trendsetter. This edition of the Surferís Journal delves deep into the California surfing experience, including the passionate, doomed relationship between Mickey Dora and Malibu, the energetic bump-and-grind of Huntington Beach, and the cause and effect of Mark Fooís death at Mavericks. Interviewed surfers in Great Waves - California include Joel Tudor, Bob McTavish, Peter Mel, Jeff Clark, Corky Carroll, Nat Young, Dale Velzy, Lance Carson, Dewey Weber, Mike Doyle, Rob Machado, and Mickey Dora.
Hot Buttered Soul
(Clasico) Hot Buttered Soul was a revolutionary four track LP released by Isaac Hayes and the Bar-Kays in 1969. A few months later, 20-year-old Terry Fitzgerald, fresh from a Hawaiian winter season and a big fan of funk and soul rhythms decided to identify the name for his new surfboard company with this multi-layered music genre. But all three words didn’t quite fit on the rainbow sash logo. Thus Hot Buttered Surfboards were born - and with it one of surfing’s true originals. But the third word never went missing. Instead it’s lived in the handmade, hand-painted HB surfboards and the styles that arose from riding them, over three decades, in the best surf on the planet...
Believe: A Movie About Dreams
(Clasico) The messages are simple and timeless—ride whatever kind of board fires your imagination, regardless of design and fashion trends. Respect your elders, tend to the young, cherish the everyday, do what you love. Every so often, a surf movie, a book, a song or piece of writing comes along that touches you profoundly, in ways you couldn’t begin to expect. Believe, a self-funded movie, produced by Mick Waters of Little House Productions in Billinudgel, New South Wales, is one of those surfing videos.
Red Hot Blue
There were many great surfing video movies from the 70's and many classics over the past 50 years. RED HOT BLUE is definately in the top 5 surf movies ever made. A spellbinding visual mindblower!!! Curt Mastalka's best surf video movie.
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