where was part of the classic surfing movie endless summer filmed
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title: The Endless Summer text: 2000, Dana Brown, Bruce's son, released "The Endless Summer Revisited", which consisted of unused footage from the first two films, as well as original cast interviews. The Endless Summer The Endless Summer is a seminal 1966 surf movie (the initial release was in 1964, world-wide release was 1966). Filmmaker/narrator Bruce Brown follows two surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August, on a surfing trip around the world. Despite the balmy climate of their native California, cold ocean currents make local beaches inhospitable during the winter. They travel to the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria and South title: The Endless Summer text: retrace the steps of Hynson and August. It shows the growth and evolution of the surfing scene since the first film, which presented only classic longboard surfing. O'Connell rides a shortboard, which was developed in the time between the two movies, and there are scenes of windsurfing and bodyboarding. The film illustrates how far surfing had spread, with footage of surf sessions in France, South Africa, Costa Rica, Bali, Java, and even Alaska. The sequel follows a similar structure to the original, with another round the world surfing adventure reflecting on cultural differences since the first film was shot. In title: The Endless Summer text: The Endless Summer The Endless Summer is a seminal 1966 surf movie (the initial release was in 1964, world-wide release was 1966). Filmmaker/narrator Bruce Brown follows two surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August, on a surfing trip around the world. Despite the balmy climate of their native California, cold ocean currents make local beaches inhospitable during the winter. They travel to the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa in a quest for new surf spots and introduce locals to the sport. Other important surfers of the time, such as Miki Dora, Phil Edwards title: The Endless Summer text: Once Brown got back to the states, he edited his footage into an hour-long film. Surfer Dale Velzy showed it at his San Clemente shop, charging 25 cents for admission. Velzy bought Brown a 16 mm camera and together they raised $5,000 to make "Slippery When Wet", Brown's first "real" surf film. In the winter of 1958, Brown went back to Hawaii to film the North Shore's big surf. On the plane ride over, the novice filmmaker read a book about how to make movies. Brown said, "I never had formal training in filmmaking and that probably worked to my title: The Endless Summer text: Times", Robert Alden wrote, "the subject matter itself—the challenge and the joy of a sport that is part swimming, part skiing, part sky-diving and part Russian roulette—is buoyant fun". The then-unknown break off Cape St. Francis in South Africa became one of the world's most famous surfing sites thanks to "The Endless Summer". In 2002, "The Endless Summer" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1994, Brown released a sequel, "The Endless Summer II", in which surfers Pat O'Connell and Robert "Wingnut" Weaver