On any day of the year it’s summer somewhere in the world. Bruce Brown’s sixth film THE ENDLESS SUMMER (initially released 60 years ago in 1964), is the archetypal tale of two California surfers, blond Mike Hynson and dark Robert August, hitting the road to follow this everlasting summer and surf 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.

About Bruce Brown: Born in San Francisco, Bruce grew up in Southern California. He started surfing at 11 on the green rollers that formed at the entrance channel to Alamitos Bay before the Long Beach break wall was completed. He attended Wilson High School (class of 1955), where he was a gymnast, but really, he says, “I majored in not going to school.” Instead, he spent more time at the beach. He first used a still camera to show his mother what surfing looked like. A regular at the Huntington Pier-Seal Beach area in high school, he enlisted in the Navy after graduation, went to submarine school, and finished at the top of his class to ensure his pick of assignment, which was Hawaii. Besides surfing Ala Moana in those mid-50s glory days with California transplant Jose Angel and others, he started shooting his first 8mm movies.

After his discharge in 1957, Bruce returned to California and worked in San Clemente as a lifeguard when a flush Dale Velzy (“World’s Largest Manufacturer”) put up $5,000 for a film that would promote the Velzy surf team. “That covered the cost of the camera, travel and a year’s living expenses,” Bruce later explained. It was a journey that would become familiar — surfing California, traveling to Hawaii, driving in goofy beaters and sleeping on beaches. The resulting film, narrated live by Brown along with an offbeat Bud Shank soundtrack, was SLIPPERY WHEN WET. Bruce took the thing on the four-wall tour in 1958, following in the footprints of pioneer Bud Browne and paralleling another rising cinematographer, John Severson.

Many films followed and in 1963, sensing the need to do something different, Bruce decided his next film needed a different twist — two surfers, Robert August and Mike Hynson, would take advantage of the fact that when it was winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it was summer in the Southern. The concept was simple and profound — you could live in a surfer’s paradise, an endless summer.

ONE SHOW ONLY • SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 10:30AM