For two decades, the surf movie was surfing’s own traveling medicine show, with filmmaker’s barnstorming their latest release up and down the coast for loud, beery audiences, in what constituted the sport’s only type of nocturnal mass gathering. Up to 15 full-length surf movies were produced annually during the genre’s first peak, in the early- and mid-'60s, and a second peak followed ten years later. By the late 1970s, though, the franchise hit the first in what proved to be a terminal serie...
Chapter 7:
Long Division
- Return of the Longboard /
- Simon Anderson and his Mighty Thruster /
- Surf and Destroy /
- Terror from Below /
- The Unsinkable Tom Carroll /
- An Explosion of Talent /
- Tom Curren's Mile of Style /
- How to Turn a Circus into a Riot /
- I Predict Waves in Your Future /
- Cult of the Surf Photographer /
- Video Killed the Surf Movie /
- Waves for Sale /
- Surf Boom Redux /
- Terminally Hip /
- Super-Sizing the World Tour /
- Somebody Should Do Something /
- Surfers vs Apartheid /
- Make Room at the Top, Obrigado! /
- The Last Big Wave /
- Eddie Aikau's State of Grace /
- A Beloved Rival /
