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The Endless Summer Alternate Movie Poster

Greetings, Shredderz! Bruce Brown’s “The Endless Summer” belongs on any reasonable human being’s Mount Rushmore of surf movies. Likewise, John Van Hamersveld’s iconic poster for the movie is an all time piece of graphic design. I was pleasantly surprised to come across this alternate movie poster for “The Endless Summer” on Pinterest, which,…

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“The Endless Summer” Mike Hynson Surfboard

As many of you already know, Bruce Brown, the filmmaker behind “The Endless Summer”, recently passed away. “The Endless Summer” is one of the rare surf movies to have achieved mainstream success. And while “The Endless Summer” is best known as a movie that captures the inherent grace and simplicity of the surfing…

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Sagas of Shred

Sixties Bruce Brown Films Ad: Sagas of Shred

It’s Thursday, Shredderz, and that means we all get to hop in the Delorean and head back to surfing’s golden years as part of the Sagas of Shred series. Pictured above is a vintage Bruce Brown Films advertisement from 1963. The advertisement appeared in an issue of Surfer Magazine well over fifty years…

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