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THE BIG SURF 1960 (Adventures in Paradise)
produced by Richard Goldstone
directed by Josef Leytes
teleplay by Frank Chase / story by Frank Chase
director of photography: Lloyd Ahern
film editor: Robert Belcher
guest star
Betsy Von Furstenburg ... Dani Baxter
Robert Sampson .......... Johnny Kino
Pilar Seurat ............ Midge
James Holden ............ Clay
Synopsis:
Adam decides to take a holiday in Hawaii, where the International Surfboard Championships are being held. [RF]
http://ctva.biz/US/Adventure/AdventuresInParadise.htm

Released on DVD in 2008

Amateur home film with combination of black and white and some colour footage at various locations in southern California .
footage of environs.
5 m 40 s: Skimboards and swimming, colour.
7m 40s: Dory launch in the surf
 at with Noted by Jeremy Oxenden.

Season 1, Episode 12
Aired 28 December 1959
Surfboard riders on two waves at Waikiki at 45 seconds, in the intoduction to this episode.

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet aired on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966.

"Tv show from 1869 (sic) ADVENTURES IN PARADISE... Surfing at Makaha"

Combination of studio, location and surfing footage (note the brief board mounted camera shot).
Definitely not 1869, at the latest 1962, and surfing footage is most likely at Sunset Beach.
Probably the footage was from a surfing film of the late 1950s, for example John Severson.

enwikipedia.org
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962.
It starred Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. The show was created by James Michener.

1. http://capitainetroy.free.fr/eng/home.html
2. http://www.tv.com/shows/adventures-in-paradise/the-big-surf-103185/

The Big Surf
(1) Episode # 39 Aired US: 5 December 1960
(2) Season 2, Episode 9, Aired 12 December 1960
Adam decides to take a holiday in Hawaii, where the International Surfboard Championships are being held.
Gardner McKay: as Capt. Adam Troy
Pilar Seura as Midge.
Robert Sampson as Johnny Kino
Betsy Von Furstenburg as Dani Baxter

Comments:
hebneh "This film was made between Feb. 1927 (when the Royal Hawaiian Hotel opened) and April 1930 (when the Moana Hotel pier was demolished).
'Honolulu? Baby' is from a few years later, from the Laurel & Hardy film 'Sons of the Desert' (1934)."
Titles: Travellettes - On the Waves at Waikiki - Surfboarding - Hawaii - The Queen of Sports.
All solid wood boards.
Most footage is of Philip Auna and Night Hawk, who consistently hangs eight.

- Jeremy Oxenden: The Surf Blurb 19 Dec 2011

Batman and Joker are both natural-footers and kneel paddle.
Batman completes a rather unsteady spinner, and fortunately has a spray can of shark repellent in his utility belt.
Episode104 Surf's Up! Joker's Under!
Screened November 16, 1967
Cesar Romero as The Joker.

Lewis Rosenberg was a young man from London who, like thousands of others in the 1920s, travelled to Newquay by train with his friends for the summer holidays. In 1929 he and his mates spent a week at Holywell Bay
Mostly prone riding on large solid wood boards, some on-board footage.

Surfing in Britain in 1929
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo0pcuWClPQ&feature

1morebrickinthewall
A shame that this video is incorrectly captioned. The man being interviewed is Harry Rochlin, not Lewis Rosenberg, my? father. Also, as dorlec1 says, it's Holywell Bay, not Newquay, where they surfed.

- Pete Robinson: The Surf Blurb 5 Dec 2011

The men in "father of surfing" the retirement age have long since reached or almost at first glance they appear to be close to their fellow peers to differ, but there is a fascinating feature.:

They have dedicated their lives to surf.

In this documentation, they reflect her unique life and tell of the beginnings of the German wave riding. They identify themselves only by the shooting, that they are the ones who were "the first surfers in Germany and that there is not time before the sport and the associated way of life in Germany was ...

Only when the Sylt lifeguards among them the now 81-year-old Uwe wire (born 1927) in the mid 50s had their first bulky solid wood boards to save water, you could talk to law of surfing in Germany. They started the first surf in the North Sea trials, knowing that it was the sport to other continents for decades and it was in its original form in Polynesia before nearly 4,000 years.

Hooked on water and waves were beginning the 60 years, the somewhat younger colleagues by Uwe Jens Körner wire (born 1944), Falk Eitner (born 1942), Gaston Surtmann (born 1939), Dieter Behrens (born 1939) and his brother Uwe Behrens (born 1940). Day after day they amused themselves with the more playful not exactly ideal for surfing the DLRG rescue boards.

Only one report in the former Reader's Digest, an advertisement or an article in Der Spiegel, because the men disagree today, made the squad of young lifeguards aware that surfing in America and Australia, but also in France had long since become a mass phenomenon.
It wanted to see with my own eyes and decided to go with the car 2000km to Biarritz in France. Everyone was fascinated by the virus and surfing, from now on, plugged in completely. Following this "trip was the first real" surfboard bought and the history of surfing in the "good old Germany began. With self-shot Super 8 original recordings and photos from this time, the film documents the optimism of the first surf trip from Germany Sylt in a new exciting world of surfing and wave riding shows the first experiments on the island.

These beginnings are marked by sympathetic naiveté, but also describe the first personal achievements and experiences and on the board. It comes from the film without explaining spokesman. Instead, a complex determined original sound collage of witnesses, such as Former windsurfing pro Jürgen Hönscheid and the protagonists themselves, the storyline.

In the course of the film the men realize the importance of surfing in her life. At the same time they need to realize that surfing inevitably come with age, reaching its limits. Thus, the film documents not only the most fascinating water sports in general and its philosophy, but also describes the growing old in one of its most beautiful forms ...

Surfing from the 1920s that dispel the myth of turning using you feet. Turning is done with the touch of the hand on the water and the the leg is dragged to make a complete re-direction of the board. Another misinterpretation of our Hawaiian practice that comes to an end.

Trunk It  footage.

From Pacific Vibrations (1971), John Severson.
Introduction - Surfing on various craft: rubber raft, belly boards, surf ski. canoe, board with chair, surfing dog, surfmats, kneeboards, body surfing (the Wedge), Makaha backwash.
50s: Snowy McAlister on his surf ski.
1 m 42s: Body surfing feet first ride.
2.33 s: Jeff Hakman rides left at Huntington, simulated collision with pier.

From Pacific Vibrations (1971), John Severson.
20 s: Steve Barger or Tom Warren (goofyfoot) on a red finfless Bing Auga board, multiple 360s on left, at Trestles?
52 s: David Nuuhiwa, Twin fin Fish(es) ?, Huntington lefts?
2 m 02 s:  Corky Carroll, dark red Hobie Twin fin, lefts, kneel paddles.

John Windshuttle captains the Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Boat, Cabbage Tree 1, at Fairy Bower, 27th March, 1966.
The boat was destroyed two waves later, and an inquiry was held by the club into the actions of the crew.
See  Brawley: Palm Beach S.C. (1996), page 148.
Surfboard riders may include Midget Farrelly (wetsuit) and Scott Dillon (goofyfoot).

A short silent historical newsreel film from the 1920s entitled "Surf Guardians" showing the new patrol of women surf lifesavers in the Bondi surf lifesaving club

Promotes Sydney's "Lasker and Lasker" Surf Outfitters of 402 and 404 George St, Sydney, Australia. Women and men model bathing suits and caps on a beach. Shots include the models standing next to a surf boat, models with parasols, and a model putting on a beach coat. Men are dressed in full length costumes.

Beach portrait at wall with Mac's Surfboard Hire sign in the background.

http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=826062
Call No. PXD 1038
53. Sunbathing under the promenade, 6 October 1940 (N895)? 

Here's a gem of early footage to feast the eyes upon. Enjoy!

Vintage 16 mm footage at and around the mid 1920s stone house originally of Alfred Hocking, brewer of Primo Beer in 1898, first house to be built on Waimanalo Beach. Images of fishing, vistas and Hocking/Hill Family.

In one of the many scenes of harvesting fishing nets, a young man paddles a surfboard just off the beach, at 4 minutes 23 seconds.

06:00 Outrigger canoes, laminated and hollow timber surfboards and surf-ski, ridden standing at Waikiki.

James A. FitzPatrick
American documentary film director. After completing training in the dramatic arts, he worked for a while as a journalist. In 1925 he entered films and specialized throughout his career in travel documentaries. Besides directing, he also wrote, produced, and narrated many of his films. MGM distributed a series of his travel films under the umbrella titles "Fitzpatrick Traveltalks" and "The Voice of the Globe", as did Paramount as "Vistavision Visits." The hallmarks of Fitzpatrick's films were Technicolor photography and stolidity.

A tour of Hawaii, its beaches, volcanoes, and people in 1938. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

Hawaii, edited by Eugene W. Castle
enwikipedia.org
Castle Films was a home-movie distributor founded in California by former newsreel cameraman Eugene W. Castle (1897–1960) in 1924. The company originally produced business and advertising films. By 1931 it had moved its principal office to New York City. In 1937, Castle branched out into 8 mm and 16 mm home movies, buying newsreel footage and old theatrical films for home use

Hula display - surfboard proped against tree in background at 5 minutes 10 seconds.
Waikiki Beach at 5 minutes 20 seconds
Laminated timber board sholder carry (Duke?) at 5 minutes 45 seconds
Surfing starts about 5 minutes 54 seconds.
Laminated and hollow timber boards.
Canoe surfing and water shots.
Duke and three others on his Australian surfski at 6 minutes 40 seconds with an attempted tandem lift.
Tandem lift successful at 8 minutes 9 seconds.
Appears to not be the same, but similar, footage in the Trunk It  DVD.

In Hawaii to handle an investigation for a hotel chain, Mason and Drake uncover a murder.

Season 8, Episode 19, Aired 2 November 1965 

Before the jetties were built at the entrance to Newport Harbor, the surf in front of Corona Del Mar was pretty good. The area was known as the "Waikiki of the west coast". The Balboa side jetty was built using a railroad to bring in rocks from inland, and is under construction when this film was made. The CDM side jetty was constructed a few years later using rocks barged over from Catalina Island.

For Those Who Think Young is a 1964 beach party film directed by Leslie H. Martinson and featuring James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Paul Lynde, Tina Louise, Bob Denver, Robert Middleton, and Woody Woodbury

Vintage surfing from the 1940's

Big Man on Little Stick: 1965 episode of Gilligan's Island

February 20, 1965
A surfer by the name of Duke Williams washes up on the shore and collapses, having spent five days at sea on his surfboard. The girls fall for Duke, played by Denny Miller, so Gilligan tries to learn how to surf by tying his feet to Duke's surfboard. Despite their interest in the newcomer, Ginger and Mary Ann panic when he makes a pass at each of them. To resolve the conflict, the castaways pretend the girls are not available. Ginger is with the Professor and Mary Ann is with Gilligan. So, Duke decides to leave the island and manages to depart by catching a huge wave. The men sit around the radio, anxiously listening to news of Duke's arrival in Hawaii. To their dismay, Duke doesn't remember where he's been for the last two weeks, having hit a rock and suffered amnesia. 

1964 newsreel on hawaii and surfing, I took the sound off and added music.

Duke and Douglas catching waves.

At 1 minute 44 seconds Duke is towed on his board behind an outrigger canoe, Duke rides several himself.and on one he stabilises the tail of the board for Fairbanks to ride the wave.
Th board is long, wide and very thick, possibly balsa?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021621/
Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks (1931)
80 min  -  Documentary   -  12 December 1931 (USA)
Directors: Douglas Fairbanks, Victor Fleming
Writer: Robert E. Sherwood
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Victor Fleming and Duke Kahanamoku
Also Known As: Around the World in 80 Minutes

Featuring Elmer Peck and the Good Year Blimp circa 1930, probably promotional footage form ther tyre company.

- Jeremy Oxenden: The Surf Blurb 30 Jan 2012

Zeppelin Water Skiing! - The New Sport of 1932, taken from the British Pathe reel "A Risky Ride" - watch the full-length reel for free here:
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/a-risky-ride/query/159423

The sport is called Aquaplaning but with the novel addition of being towed by an aircraft instead of a boat.

British Movietine News clip of a '60's motorized surfboard, Shown to Duke Kahanamoku. Sorry there was on sound so i added my own

Promo for Gidget.
The series was first broadcast on ABC from September 15, 1965 through April 21, 1966

Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello introduce Mr. Surfboard, Don Adams,  a skit from Hullabaloo!
Show #6
Hosts: Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello
Season 1, Episode 6, Aired 16 February 1965
the show also included The Kinks, Dobie Gray, Freddie and the Dreamers, Andrew Loog Oldham, and The Brothers Four.

Don Adams later appeared with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in the film Back To The Beach in 1987.

http://www.crazyabouttv.com/hullabaloo.html
The Hullabaloo TV show was a musical variety series that aired on NBC for two seasons from January of 1965 to April of 1966. Each episode of Hullabaloo had a popular guest host who would sing a song or three even if they weren't known as a singer. The first 13 episodes had a segment where Brian Epstein would introduce a hot group from London. There was also a number done by the guest host and the guest performers called the Hullabaloo "Top Pop Medley", a medley of the current hits that topped the charts. After the guest performers sang their tunes, the final number would be performed on a hot night-club type set and was referred to as "Hullabaloo A Go-Go".

Body surfing, Coolites and mat surfing (Bondi Beach) and surfboard riding on various Sydney beaches circa 1965.
One sequence shows two young surfers completing their 1965-1966 surfboard registration and the program ends with a simulated rescue.

British Movietine News clipl on the 1st Biarritz Surfing Contest

Tandem event from the 2nd World Surfing Championships in 1965.

Begins with finish and presentation of a paddling race, then tandem contest (final?) and presentation.
Ends with one wave of female surfers.

Pete Peterson Performing

This is an understatement.

Hula Girls on surf boards in a swimming pool (California?)

on their cross country tour, the Hobie Super Surfer Skateboard team stop off at Cypress Gardens and go surfing behind a boat

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0622169/
Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV series 1963–1965)
The Hunt
Dec. 19, 1963
The Hunt
Directed by William A. Graham   (as William Graham) and Robert Altman (unaccredited).
Altman is also accredited for one of the story writers.
Starring Mickey Rooney, James Caan and Bruce Dern
Plot Summary
A "surfer bum","600 miles from a wave", is roaming the back-roads of the U.S. in his woody wagon when it breaks down. His "rescuers" include a small town sheriff who has a habit of his prisoners escaping and then being hunted down and murdered by his bloodhounds. When the surfer is seen as a threat to report the goings-on he is arrested and is next in line to "escape".

Not only does Caan drive a classic, if well used, woody with sunroof, but he also has a quiver of two surfboards hanging out the back.

5m 58 s: Surfer rturns to the beach and shoulders a Hot Curl laminate with deep veed tail.

part 1 has a short scene of La Jolla Cove:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa2qVGy0bTg&feature

- Jeremy Oxenden: The Surf Blurb 6 Feb 2012

Trunk It  footage.

- Jeremy Oxenden: The Surf Blurb 6 Feb 2012

Although titled Miami Beach (Florida?), some commentators think this maybe on the West Coast.
Elevated shooting position, from cliffs or pier?
Likely 1960s, amateur footage

- Jeremy Oxenden: The Surf Blurb 6 Feb 2012

Early 1970s professional footage from Hawaii, with several water shots.
Hakman, Rory Russell?

- Jeremy Oxenden: The Surf Blurb 30 Jan 2012

- Jeremy Oxenden: The Surf Blurb 16 Jan 2012

A sequence titled  Water Babies Slam Slippers, Srtike Permanent Waves.
from:
Chevrolet Motors Division, General Motors Sales Corporation  presents The Leader News.
Handy (Jam) Organization, (1938).

Paddle board cove at Palos Verdes circa1938.

Laminated and hollow timber boards.
Male and female riders, headstand.
For advertising purposes the female riders are featured in close ups.

Mitho Makosi Kesikansi (Merry Christmas in Cree!) and a 1940's surfing near.

Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 4, No. 1) (1938).
 

- Jack Jorgensen: The Surf Blurb 3 Jan 2012

Full version at:
Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 4, No. 1) (1938)
http://www.archive.org/details/Chevrole1938

"Promotional newsreel sponsored by General Motors: Automobile driving along coastline, men and women surfing; Supply truck driving through desert (Death Valley) to remote campsite; Man lying on railroad tracks (photographing trains from odd angles), developing photographs in trunk of car; Police using paint guns to measure automobile's braking distance; Family with pet deer."

"Malibu, California (sic): LS 3 automobiles driving along winding road (at base of oceanfront mountain). MS above automobile (leaving dusty trail). Several women (wearing swimsuits) getting out of car (parked on beach; surfboards strapped to roof); women removing surfboards. Men and women (carrying surfboards) running toward ocean. VS several men and women paddling surfboards; riding waves; man surfing while standing on head; falling from surfboard. CU 4 women (wearing swimsuits) waving from rock."

enwikipedia.org
Warren Miller was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and as a young man he took up the hobbies of skiing, surfing, and photography. At the age of 18, with the U.S. ten months into World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in the South Pacific.[1] Upon his discharge from the Navy in 1946 he bought his first 8mm movie camera. He and a friend moved to Sun Valley, Idaho where they camped in the parking lot of the Sun Valley ski resort, lived in a teardrop trailer and earned money as ski instructors. In their free time, they filmed each other skiing to critique and improve their ski techniques. During the summers they shifted to the California coast where they filmed each other surfing.

Hawaii became a state on August 21, 1959. 

enwikipedia.org
Ride the Wild Surf is romantic drama in the beach party style. It was filmed in 1963 and distributed in 1964. Unlike most films in the genre, it is known for its exceptional big wave surf footage – a common sight in surf movies of the time, but a rarity in beach party films.[2] Likewise, the film has only one pop song – the titular Jan & Dean track, which is heard once, at the end of the film.

Surfers Mickey Dora, Greg Noll and Dick Ziker performed a large part of the surfing seen in the film.

Of the three surfer leads, raven-haired Peter Brown was made into a blonde by makeup artist Ben Lane (to match the hair of Brown’s surfing double – and to keep all three men from being brunettes), which required his girlfriend, the blonde Barbara Eden, to have auburn hair; likewise the dark-haired Shelley Fabares – who is paired with the dark-haired Fabian, became a Scandinavian blonde. Susan Hart’s black hair was sufficiently indifferent to male counterpart Tab Hunter’s that no change was required.

The stunt surfers were given swim trunks that matched their movie star counterparts, except for star James Mitchum, who was instead given trunks that replicated his stunt double Greg Noll’s famous black & white "jailhouse stripe" boardshorts.

This is a compilation of most of the surfing action footage from the film.
Although the film's climax emphasised the danger and drama of Waimea Bay, most of the surfing footage was shot in excellent conditions at Sunset Beach.
Starts with the boys' surf-check at (Sunset Beach?) carpark, followed by a mass paddle-out.
37s: Sunset Beach
1m 07s: Pipeline
1m 26s: Sunset Beach
3 m 11s: Pipeline
3 m 41s: Waimea Bay

One of our first video, 25 years ago. Must choose, either we have big waves .....and no cameraman due to rain, or small waves and sun, bad luck !

Location unknown, circa 1980.

See Endless Summer footage, below.

Dolphin removes offensive boogie board from the line up.

The opening in Hawaii has one wave with surfboard riders at 51 s

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021668/
The Black Camel (1931)
Director: Hamilton MacFadden
Writers: Earl Derr Biggers (novel), Barry Conners, and 3 more credits »
Stars: Warner Oland, Sally Eilers and Bela Lugosi
Also Known As: Charlie Chan in the Black Camel
Filming locations: Honolulu, Punchbowl Hill, Royal Hawaiian Hotel (2259 Kalakava Avenue, Honolulu), Waikiki Beach, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA.
Memorable quotes
Wilkie Ballou: Your theory's full of holes. It won't hold water!
Charlie Chan: Sponge is full of holes. Sponge holds water. 

Surfboard riding at Narrabeen (?), some in contest shirts.

The home movies are part of the exhibit "Philanthropist, Environmentalist, Collector: Doris Duke and Her Estates," curated by Mary Samouelian and Molly Bragg at Duke University Libraries' Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. See the online exhibit at: http://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/dorisduke
 

10:54 Honolulu, HI, 1937, Getting to know the local customs
10:59 Doris and the Kahanamoku family

Part 2 of Arthur Goodwin's home movies, spliced with sections of an unidentified professional film.
Professional Sources:
A. Hawaii 1938
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0NlyGOr3tQ&feature

Title: Our Trip to Hawaii 1928
00:05 Title: Diamond Head and Honolulu
Diamond Head and caostal views from sea.
00:44: Title: Friends greet us on arrival
Honolulu whalf - Matson Line - Honolulu to San Franciso - South Seas ansd Australia
01:00: Title: And decorate us with Leis
01:05 The ladies of Goodwin's party, wearing leis, walk along the Moana Pier (removed in 1930), which features throughout the film.
01:46 Outrigger canoe, five crew, surfing waves.
02:05 Beach launch of large outrigger canoe with Waikiki pier in the background.
02:34 Large outrigger canoe surfing wave   - shot from the end of the pier (?) towards the east.
03:09 Large outrigger canoe, nine crew and black and white dog, paddles seaward.
03:32 Surfboard riders, in the shorebreak west of Waikiki pier. Headstand, standing on one leg, ride onto the sand, beginners (striped tops) lesson,
04:46 Canoe surfing
05:27 Surfboard riding, some tandem.
06:46 Title: How it looks from a canoe.
06:49 Canoe and surfboard riding, Diamond Head in background.

Indoor (?) hula performance by Goodwin, followed by professional outdoor hula with grass hut and surfboard proped against tree in background.
(A. 05:10)