si.com - "The Endless Summer" Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary In 2024
The film that launched a million surf trips, Bruce Brown's masterpiece is about to enjoy its diamond anniversary.
In January 1964, filmmaker Bruce Brown and business partner R. Paul Allen, two quintessential Southern California surfers, landed in a snowy Wichita, Kansas, with their new film, “The Endless Summer.” Amidst a strike by the projectionists, they showed the film and sold out the humble Sunset Theater. Shortly thereafter, Brown moved on to New York City where he rented out a theater and the film sold out for 48 straight weeks. And like that, the legend of “The Endless Summer” was born. This January will mark the 60th anniversary of that release, which changed surfing as we know it today.