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| 1957 Australian Film Archives
Colour footage of USA surf team to Melbourne Olympics surfing their Malibu boards in Australia. Shot for Ampol (petrol company) it was shown around the Lifesaving Clubs and helped spur the acceptance of the new design. Now in the Australian Film Archives it regularly appears in TV documentaries, particularly the ABC. Note the footage also includes Duke Kahanamoku at Freshwater in 1956 with his board from 1915. |
| 1957 The Big Surf,
Bud Browne (USA) The first commercial release in Australia, shown by Bud at Queenscliff Surf Club, 14 December 1957. |
| 1958 Surf Down Under
Bud Browne’s film of his 1957 visit. |
| 1958 Slippery When Wet
Bruce Brown’s first release. |
| 1959 Gidget
Directed by Paul Wendkos First Hollywood surf movie released. From the novel by Fredrick Kohner, starring Sandra Dee and Cliff Robertson. Surfing by the Malibu crew including Mickey Dora (as Moondogie) and Mickey Munoz (as Gidget). |
| 1959 Cat on a Hot Foam Board
Bud Browne |
| 1959 Surf Crazy
Bruce Brown |
| 1960 Surf Fever
John Severson Surf Movie Posters-graphic surfing film art by John Severson |
| 1961 Surf Trek to Hawaii
Bob Evans.- first movie by Bob Evans. Dave Jackman, Bob Pike, Midget Farrelly. Note: The only work of Bob Evans that has been transferred to video appears in small segments in Nat Young’s ‘The History of Australian Surfing’ 1985. See below. Bob Evans died in 1976. Film Australia probably have copies of at least some of Evan's films, but since nothing has ever been commericially released I suspect that there must be some legal dispute over who holds the copyright. Given Evans died 30 years ago, it would seem highly unlikely these films will be commerically available in the near future, if ever. |
| 1961 Big Wednesday
John Severson, This was an original surf film, the title re-used by John Milhouse for his Hollywood production,circa 1978. |
| 1961 Barefoot Adventure
Bruce Brown |
| 1962 Midget Goes Hawaiian
,
Bob Evans Midget Farrelly’s Makaha win. |
| 1962 Going My Wave
John Severson |
| 1962 Surfing Hollow Days
.
Bruce Brown |
| 1962 Surfing the Southern Cross
Bob Evans Poster image. |
| 1962 Waterlogged
Bruce Brown Compilation of sequences from previous films. |
| 1963 Gung Ho!
Bud Browne |
| 1963 The Angry Sea
John Severson |
| 1963 Follow
the Surf
Dennis Elton |
| 1963 North Swell
Grant Rohloff, |
| 1963 Let There Be Surf
Jim Freeman |
| 1964 Locked In!
Bud Browne |
| 1966 The Endless Summer
Bruce Brown |
| 1964 For Surfers Only
Grant Rohloff, |
| 1965 The Performers
Greg MacGillivray |
| 1965 A Cool Wave of Color
Greg MacGillivray |
| 1965 Life in the Sun
Paul Witzig, 1st feature. |
| 1965 The Last Wave
Grant Rohloff |
| 1967 Free and Easy
Greg MacGillivray, and Greg Freeman, (USA) Poster images |
| 1967 May The
Hot Generation
Directed/Camera/Script by Paul Witzig. First release. Surfers : Bob McTavish, Russell Hughes, Kevin Brennan, Bobby Brown, Rodney Stumper, Nat Young, Peter Drouyn, Midget Farrelly, Robert Connelly, Keith Paull, Ted Spencer, George Greenough, Reno Dick Brewer, Buddy Boy. Locations :Noosa, Byron Bay, France, Burleigh Heads, Bells Beach (Austrailian Titles or Easter contest 1967?), Maui/Honolau Bay. |
| 1967 High on a Cool Wave,
Bob Evans.
With Nat Young and Peter Drouyn. Includes San Diego World Titles and Hawaii. |
| Splashdown, Tracks, Ride a White Horse, Bob Evans |
| 1968 The
Hot Generation
Directed/Camera/Script by Paul Witzig. Second release. |
| 1968 The Golden Breed
Dale Davis Poster image |
| 1968 Children of the Sun
Andy McAlpine Poster image |
| 1969 Waves Of Change
Greg MacGillivray, and Greg Freeman, (USA) |
| 1970 The Innermost Limits of Pure
Fun
George Greenough, (USA) Poster image |
| 1970 Evolution
Directed/Camera Paul Witzig Extra footage by George Greenough Soundtrack by Taman Shud and Tully (and Ravell) Surfers : Wayne Lynch, Butch Cooney,Ted Spencer, Nat Young, Midget Farrelly, Skip Frye, Ben Apia, Russell Hughes, Keith Paull, David Nuuihwa, Reno Aberlira, Joey Cabell, Fred Hemmings, Mike Doyle, Peter Drouyn, David Treloar, Richard Harvey. Locations :Victoria, Sydney, France, Morrocco/Portugal, Puerto Rico (World Titles 1968 - Rincon), South Australia, Western Australia (Australian Titles 1969 - Margret River). |
| 1970 Solid Glass Tube
Directed by 'Ray Cassidy' (actually Denis McDonald) Reported, with thanks, by Greg Clark, Sept 2003... "On your list of surf movies you appear to have omitted a couple of Australian surf movies from the late sixties or perhaps 1970, one of which was called Solid Glass Tube and was produced by Ray Young ( I think). It was a shocker (out of focus etc) but I think he produced a few movies around that time. I also vaguely recall reading a surfing article in recent times about Ray Young and how he used a few different names to produce surf movies around that time. You might like to investigate this further." Corrected entry from Thoms, page 112 |
| 1971 Sea of Joy
Paul Witzig |
| 1971 Cosmic Children
Hal Jepsen |
| 1971 Ecstacy
Colin Turner Footage of the 1971 Australian Titles at Bell's Beach. |
| 1971 Pacific Vibrations
John Severson Poster image |
| 1971 Family Free
Bob Evans |
| 1971 Seadreams |
| 1972 The Islands
Paul Witzig |
| 1972 The Morning of the Earth
Alby Falzon Poster image |
| 1972 Five Summer Stories
Greg MacGillivray, and Jim Freeman, (USA) Poster image |
| 1973 Zephyr
Yuri Farant mainly Hawaii with focus on Gerry Lopez and Rory Russell |
| 1973 Sunshine Sea |
| 1973 Red Hot Blue |
| 1973 In Natural Flow |
| 1973 A Sea for Yourself |
| 1973 Drouyn
Bob Evans High light:Peter Drouyn’s backhand attack at Tamarin Bay, Mauritius, west coast Africa, Canary Islands, Morocco, southern France, Japan and / or Bali (?). Other surfers Bruce Channon, Brett Evans. |
| 1973 Rolling Home
Paul Witzig Australian travelogue with limited surfing sequences (10%) almost exclusively featuring Reno Abelliro at Eyre Penisular, South Australia and Margret River. Premiere Sydney Opera House 28 November 1973 ? |
| 1973 Crystal Voyager
Alby Falzon. Portrait of George Greenough as surfer, fisherman, sailor, designer and builder. Apart from a crowded Rincon sequence, the only surfers are George Greenough (mat and spoons, red and black) , Nat Young (8 ft Pat Morgan Surfboards Keel, green) and Ritchie West ( 6 ft egg, clear). Locations: Northern Califorinia and Channel Islands. Final sequence was Greenough’s Echoes, see below. Poster image. |
| 1973 Echoes
George Greenough, (USA), insert in Falzon’s Crystal Voyager. Edited surfer’s view water footage of Rincon and Lennox Head developed from the previous ‘Coming of the Dawn’ / Innermost Limits of Pure Fun, 1969. Music by Pink Floyd. |
| 1973 A Winter’s Tale
Phil and Russell Sheppard / Bruce Usher Films. LOCATATIONS/SURFERS: Queensland, NSW North and South coast, Bells. Neilson Bros, Bob McTavish, Nat Young, Simon Anderson, Peter Cornish, Terry Fitzgerald, Grant Oliver, Midget Farrelly, Colm Smith (NN) Gisborne (?), NZ. : Ian Goodacre / / Jefferies Bay, South Africa: Piers Pittard Pipeline: Larry Bertleman, Buffalo K, Ben Apia / Makaha. Gerry Lopez, Rory Russell, Owl Chapman, Sammy Hawke, Booby Jones, Mike Larmont |
| 197? Oceans
Rodney Sumpter |
| 1974 On Any Morning
David Sumpter, (also Oceans? Rodney/David). SURFERS: Nat Young (pintail), Wayne Lynch (Pat Morgan Surfboards Keel), Kim ‘Fly’ Bradley, Lopez (Lightning Bolt Surfboards Pin), Hakman, Drouyn, MP, Fitzgerald (sprayed Brewer Pin), Neilson Brothers (Tri fin). Note 1st leg ropes. LOCATIONS: Whale Beach,Avalon, Wreck Bay, North Narrabeen, Fairy Bower, NZ, Kuta, Ullawatu, horrible old ski footage, Burleigh Heads. CONTESTS: 1st Coke 1974 |
| 1974 Saltwater Wine
Alan Rich |
| 1974 Fluid Drive |
| 1974 Hot Lips and Inner Tubes |
| 1975 Tales From the Tube
Bob Cording and Jerry Humpries. Australian Premier 9th April 1975, Alhamba Theatre, Brisbane. |
| 1975 Circumfusion
?, Associated Screen Arts; Michael Peterson / Snapper , Maurice Cole, Terry Fitzgerald and David Treloar / Queenscliffe, Kris Puckeridge; hang gliding, trailbikes. Premier: Manly Silver Screen, 26th June 1975. |
| 1975 Liquid Space
Dale Davis SURFERS : David Nuuhiwa, Rory Russell, Owl Chapman, Jim Blears, Tony Wright, Mike Purpus, Angie Reno, Jeff Hakman. Hawaii |
| 1975 Rolling Home
Paul Witzig |
| 1975 Five Summer Stories
: Plus
Greg MacGillivray, and Jim Freeman, (USA) Updated release. |
| 1975 Liquid Gold
Harry Hodge |
| 1976 Supersession
Hal Jepson SURFERS : Gerry lopez, Jeff Hakmann, Larry Bertlemann, Barry Kanianapui, Rory Russell. LOCATIONS : Hawaii, Uluwatu |
| 1976 Drift Away
Richard Bradley, Premier : Sydney Opera House 14th December 1976 |
| 1976 Tubular Swells
Dick Hoole and Jack McCoy, SURFERS : Tony Etherington, Terry Richardson, Peter McCabe, Richard Harvey, Ian Cairns, Mark Richards, Rabbit Batholomew, Shaun Tomson, Michael Tomson LOCATIONS : Bali, Australia, Hawaii, |
| 1976 A Matter of Style
Steve Soderberg, SURFERS : Shaun Tomson, Terry Fitzgerald, other Australians. LOCATIONS : California, Hawaii |
| 1976 Going Surfing
Bud Browne includes historical retrospective |
| 1977 Five Summer Stories plus Four
Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman |
| 1977 Highway One
Steve Otton, Adventures of a group of surfers who travel the coast surfing and showing ‘Morning of the Earth’ Premier: Sydney Opera House January 1977 |
| 1977 Free Ride
Bill Delany , water footage by Dan Merkel. Surfers : Shaun Tomson, Mark Richards and Rabbit Batholomew. *The definite film of this period. |
| 1977 Playgrounds in Paradise
Alan Rich |
| 1978 The New Playgrounds in Paradise
Alan Rich Reported, with thanks, by Alan Rich, July 2003.... '' The New Playgrounds in Paradise which was released in 1978"' |
| 1979 Fall Line
Nat Young, |
| Core, Steve?? |
| 1981 Wizards of the Water
Alan Rich Reported, with thanks, by Alan Rich, July 2003.... '' Wizards of the Water ... was released on 14 December 1981 at the Sydney Opera House Music Room.' |
| 1982 Storm Riders
Hoole / McCoy |
| 1982 Band on the Run
Harry Hodge |
| 1985 A History of Australian Surfing
Nat Young |
| 1989 Surfers, The Movie
Bill Delaney |
| 1992 Down The Line (Video)
Paul Witzig |
| 1995 Legends, An Australian Surfing
Perspective
Roy Norris |
| 1996 Endless Summer 2
Bruce Brown and Dana Brown |
| 1996 Can’t step Twice (on
the same piece of water) Video
Alby Falzon |
| 1998
Subject: Guy Finlay Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:18:14 +1000 From: glisseur@ans.com.au To: geoff@surfresearch.com.au Hi geoff,
It was in 1988 that I linked up with Tim
Bonython ( a nightmare in
When I went to the states with the tapes
in June, 1988 the distributors
Recently Albie Thoms wrote his book and
contacted Tim for info on these
I have contacted Albie and given him the
facts with regard to the
If you are still into it I can help with
more info about surf films and
regards,
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