Search/Recent Changes
DBTropes
...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

The Endless Summer

 The Endless Summer
type
 TVTItem
 The Endless Summer
label
 The Endless Summer
 The Endless Summer
page
 TheEndlessSummer
 The Endless Summer
comment
 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Endless Summer is a 1964 documentary film (nationally released in 1966) about surfing produced, written, directed, and narrated by Bruce Brown.This film is responsible for bringing the surf movie genre to the mainstream and popularizing the sport around the world. The bulk of the movie follows two California surfer dudes, Mike Hynson and Robert August. After it starts to get cold in California in the fall, Hynson and August go on a quest around the globe, traveling to the Southern Hemisphere in search of an "endless summer". The film showcases places where surfing is popular as well as cultures who have never seen a surf board. Occasionally the journey of Hynson and August is interrupted by interludes showing surfing in California or the north shore of Oahu.Brown made a sequel, The Endless Summer II, in 1994. His son Dana continued the genre with The Endless Summer Revisited (2000) and Step Into Liquid (2003).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confused with the 1974 Greatest Hits Album Endless Summer by The Beach Boys, or with the visual novel Endless Summer (or with Everlasting Summer, for that matter), or with tropes such as Endless Winter or It's Always Spring.
 The Endless Summer
fetched
 2022-02-06T04:12:16Z
 The Endless Summer
parsed
 2022-02-06T04:12:16Z
 The Endless Summer
isPartOf
 DBTropes
 The Endless Summer / int_19d8d325
type
 Darkest Africa
 The Endless Summer / int_19d8d325
comment
 Darkest Africa: Implied multiple times in narration during the scenes in Africa. As the film was released in 1964, Brown's views on Africans are often unenlightened, to say the least, though usually good-intentioned. In one scene the narrator suggests that the American surfers visiting Africa worry about getting "speared by a native." The word "primitive" is used a lot, there's a joke about cannibalism...on the other hand, Bowen in his narration is bowled over by the skill of Ghanaians trying surfing for the first time. He's especially impressed when one man manages to briefly stand upright on the board while riding his very first wave.
 The Endless Summer / int_19d8d325
featureApplicability
 1.0
 The Endless Summer / int_19d8d325
featureConfidence
 1.0
 The Endless Summer
hasFeature
 The Endless Summer / int_19d8d325
 The Endless Summer / int_225527db
type
 Cult Soundtrack
 The Endless Summer / int_225527db
comment
 Cult Soundtrack: Provided by the instrumental surf-rock group The Sandals. The soundtrack actually began life as an unrelated album released under the title Scrambler! in 1964; it was repackaged as the soundtrack album when the film was nationally released in 1966.
 The Endless Summer / int_225527db
featureApplicability
 1.0
 The Endless Summer / int_225527db
featureConfidence
 1.0
 The Endless Summer
hasFeature
 The Endless Summer / int_225527db
 The Endless Summer / int_name
type
 ItemName
 The Endless Summer / int_name
comment
 The Endless Summer / int_name
featureApplicability
 1.0
 The Endless Summer / int_name
featureConfidence
 1.0
 The Endless Summer
hasFeature
 The Endless Summer / int_name
 The Endless Summer / int_name
itemName
 The Endless Summer

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

 The Endless Summer
hasFeature
 Travelogue Show / int_28d4004c