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Filmed
By: Bruce Brown
Year
Of Production: 1960
Duration:
75 minutes
- Still more
early 50’s jazz music on this one, but you get a more modern narration - due to
the fact that the original narration couldn’t be found.
- See
classic Ala Moana, The Wedge, Trestles, Steamer Lane, Waimea, Sunset and Makaha.
- Del Cannon offers some comedy
relief as well as some excellent surfing - for the time.
BLAZING
LONGBOARDS
Filmed
By: Chris Bystrom
Year
Of Production: 1995
Duration:
80 minutes
- This
video highlights epic performances by today's great longboarders. See the heaviest
California winter waves in over 25 years, as well as Cyclone season Down Under
and huge North Shore winter swells.
- The
video doesn't dwell on one place too long, but instead, skips from spot to spot.
- Soundtrack
by Wille and Lobo, The Aqua Velvets and more.
Filmed
By: ???
Year of Production: 2004
Duration:
90 minutes
- This film is not easy to describe.
- It is written up as thus ... "Bondi
Tsunami is the first Japanese Road Movie in Australia.
- It
follows the psychedelic adventures of four punked up Manga inspired Japanese characters,
Shark, Yuto, Kiniko and Gunja Man as they travel up the east coast of Australia
in a 1961 EK Holden".
- This was actually
filmed using a MiniCam Camera.
- It is something
like a Japanese view of Surfing Australia.
- Unfortunately
there isn't that much surfing, instead the film seems to focus more on the characters,
with some very bizarre photography.
- There
are some funny bits in it, but the (lack of) surfing is disappointing.
BIG WEDNESDAY
Year
of Production: Originally came out in 1978. On DVD around 2003
Rating
(out of 10): 7
- Directed
by surfer, John Milius, this was a complete departure from the Beach Blanket Bingo
movies of the time.
- Pretty
lame story-line.
- But
some great surf shots.
- Starring
William Katt and Jan-Michael Vincent, both of whom are accomplished surfers in
their own right.
- Also
starring Gary Busey who had to learn to surf for the role.
- Follows
the life of these 3 buds from 1962 to 1974 when the coast finally gets hit by
the ever elusive 20-foot swell.
BILLABONG
ODYSSEY
Year
of Production: 2004
Rating
(out of 10): 9
- Layne
Beachley said it all about this movie when she said, "it's a feeling only
a surfer knows".
- And
some of these surfers know the feeling BIG time - like 60+ foot walls of water
100 miles out to sea.
- The
basic premise of the movie is a three-year quest to find and ride the biggest
waves on the planet.
- It's
a bottler, mate!!
BIGGEST
WEDNESDAY
Filmed
By: Tim Bonython
Year
Of Production: 1998
Duration:
40 minutes
- "Condition
Black" is an official Civil Defence Alert that declares the ocean off limits
to everyone. Everyone, even the world's best big wave surfers, are legally bound
to remain ashore.
- Except
for a select number of Big Wave Maniacs, Maui's Jaws and Oahu's North Shore proved
too good to let pass.
- And
so it was... See footage of the BIGGEST SURF EVER RIDDEN.
- Surfers
are towed into 30 - 50 foot Walls of Death.
- Outside
Log Cabins on Oahu's North Shore was surfed for the first time EVER and was claimed
as NOW the biggest rideable wave.
- This
entire video is dedicated to that one huge day - 28/01/98.
Duration:
67 min
- Featuring Rasta,
Dick Van Straalen, Kye Fitzgerald, Joel Fitzgerald, Terry Fitzgerald, Steve Cooney,
Damon Harvey, Neil Purchase Jnr, and the names go on & on
- Some
great surfing from these guys.
- They
also spend a bit of time (not too much fortunately) talking about their surfing.
Filmed
By: Kama'aina Productions
Year
Of Production: 1999
Duration:
94 min
- Mixture
of Once Were Warriors & American Graffiti
- Finally,
a movie where locals think, talk and behave like real Polynesians
- Mark
Thompson moves to the Big Island of Hawai'i, discovering a strange, violent place
that esists beneath the postcard image of this tropical paradise
- Filmed
on the Big Island of Hawai'i
Filmed
By: Tim Bonython
Year
Of Production: 2006
Duration:
61 min
- Winner of the Best Documentary
at the International Surf Film Festival in France
- Here
is the whole story of this wave and it's history
- Features
footage from 30 cameramen, interviews from all the surfers and the historians
that helped make the wave so famous
Filmed
By: Brian Grazer
Year
Of Production: 2002
Duration:
94 min
- Anne
Marie is determined
- She knows
how to surf and she's going to prove it
- One
day, she'll win the Pipe Master, one of the world's most dangerous, aggressive
and male-dominated surf competitions
- With
the help of her best friends, she puts all her energy and courage to live her
passion and fulfil her dreams
Filmed
By: Jack McCoy
Year
Of Production: 2006
Duration:
36 min
Rating
(out of 10):
- Forms part
of the Jack McCoy Collection. Various "Dreaming" Sessions.
- A
lot of stuff around the desert areas of Australia.
BREAKAWAY
Filmed
By: Darryl Menzies
Year
Of Production: 1981
Duration:
68 min
- This is a home-made
film dubbed from old Super-8 movies of the action around the Cronulla Point, Shark
Island and Cronulla area between 1972 and 1982
- A
film, pretty-much of local interest only
Filmed
By: Milton Blair
Year
Of Production: 1967
Duration:
90 min
- Pretty corny
- Typical
American commentary from the mid-60's
- Mainly
Hawai'i
- Bob Cooper, Greg
Noll, Miki Dora, Jeff Hackman, Mike Griggs
- Classic
Highway 1 (USA) scenes
- Dale
Velzy shaping boards
- Mike
Doyle tandem surfing
Filmed
By: ABC Television
Year
Of Production: 2009
Duration:
169 min
- The story of Australian
Surfing
- It tells the stories
of the pioneers like Duke Kahanamoku and Isobel Letham
- The
first Aussie surfing icons like Midget Farrelly, Bob Pike, Nat Young and Michael
Petersen
- It looks at the
exploits of innovators like Wayne Lynch and Bob McTavish
- The
new breed of Australian surfers riding 40 foot monster waves off the West Australian
coast
BENEATH
THE SURFACE
Filmed
By: Dana Morris
Year of Production:
2007
Duration: 62 minutes