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RIDE A WHITE HORSE

Filmed By: Bob Evans

Year of Production: 1968

Duration: 90 minutes

Although many others were made, including Surf Trek to Hawaii, Midget Goes Hawaiian, Surfing The Southern Cross, Hawaiian Thrills, The Young Wave Hunters, and so on, this is the one of very few videos that are still available from the lens of the late Bob Evans.
This guy was the father of the Australian Surfing Generation, and this is a nostalgic look at early Australian surfing.
Narration is primarily by Bob Evans.
The picture quality is fairly poor, but that's been caused by the transfer from film to video.
The surfing is fantastic.
The spots they surf and the lack of crowds can only been dreamed of these days.

RIDING GIANTS

Year of Production: 2004

Running Time: 97 minutes

This movie features that unbelieveable ride that Laird Hamilton took at Teahupoo which many said changed the boundaries of surfing forever.
Features Greg Noll, Jeff Clark and of course Laird Hamilton who many now claim is the greatest big wave rider ever.
Some great surfing action and interviews with the men who charge mountains.

ROLLING THUNDER

Filmed By: Scott Dittrich

Year Of Production: 1992

Duration: 90 minutes

Set up as something of an environmental awareness movie, this futuristic story is supposed to bring out the "let's save the planet" in us all.
Don't know whether it does so much, but it's a great flick.
Surf with dolphins in Western Australia.
Discover perfect uncrowded waves in Baja, Indonesia, South Australia, Northern California and Hawaii's Outer Islands.
See Boogie-Boarders free-fall from monstrous waves at The Wedge.
See big Pipeline and heaps more.

RIDE THE WILD SURF

Filmed By: Jo & Art Napoleon

Year Of Production: 1964 (renewed in 1994)

Duration: 101 minutes