Which 1966 surf film documented surfers traveling around the world in search of waves?
Answer
The Endless Summer
The 1966 surf film The Endless Summer documented surfers traveling around the world in search of waves.
Bruce Brown directed the documentary, which follows Mike Hynson and Robert August as they visit surf destinations in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Hawaii. Its central idea is that surfers could follow summer around the globe.
The film used travel, landscape, and surfing footage to present wave riding as an international adventure. It helped introduce surfing locations and surf culture to audiences who had never seen them.
The Endless Summer is sometimes confused with Brown’s 1964 film of the same broad surf-documentary tradition, but the 1966 release is the internationally celebrated travel documentary. Its success helped establish surf films as an important part of popular culture.