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"The Surfing Years" (1966)
Gerry Lopez in "Five Summer Stories"
"90-Second Horror"
(Video) "All Quiet on the Surfie-Rocker Front" (1963)
"And a Carrot Smoothie," Scene from Pacific Vibrations
"At the Beach" - Bondi '70
"Big Wave Dave's" (Episode 1)
"Big Wednesday," Hangover Cure
"Big Wednesday," Mexican weekend
"Biggest Wednesday," 1998
"Boarding House: North Shore" (Episode 1)
"Cosmic Children," Opening Sequence
"Dewey Weber Had Webbed Toes" - EOS promo short
"Dream"
"Evolution," Opening Sequence
"Fighting Bulls," 1950s short film
"Fired Up" - A Short Look at Surfers Playing with Fire
"Five Summer Stories," Opening Sequence
"Follow Me" Opening
"Free Ride" footage, shot by Dan Merkel
"Hatteras Surf-Feast" (Animal Remix)
"High in the Middle," from Five Summer Stories
"I'm a Surf Bum!" Gidget meets Kahuna
"It Is Stunning" - 60-Second EOS promo
"Karma," by Arne Wong
"Kong's Island" (1982)
"Liar Liar" from Modern Collective (2009)
"Little Jeff Hakman"
"Mad Wax" (1987)
"Malibu U," Episode #7 (1967)
"Momentum" opening sequence
"My Name is Dale Davis"
"Nas Ondas do Surf" - Full-Length 1977 Brazilian Surf Movie
"One-Mile Wave" - EOS promo short
"Pipe of Peace," Sea of Joy (1971)
"Ride the Wild Surf," North Shore Arrival
"Ride the Wild Surf," Sunset Beach
"Rupert's World," from Sea of Joy
"Sea of Joy," Opening Sequence
"Skaterdater" (1965)
"Stomping on the Strand" - EOS promo short
"Surf Beach" - Bondi '65
"Surf City," Jan and Dean
"Surf Girls" opening titles
"Surfers like girls in their place" (1966)
"The Beach Girls and the Monster" (full length, 1965)
"The Endless Summer," Opening Sequence
"The History of Surfing," by Don Wolf (1965)
"The Horror of Party Beach" full length (1965)
"The Professionals" TV special (1966)
"This is Not Goodbye My Darling" - Kicking Out With Style
"Used Car Salesman," 1959
"Waterborn," by Bill Delaney
"Waves to Freedom," starring Mark Cunningham
"You're the Big Story!" Scene from Blue Juice (1995)
16 or Bust: the Super-Narrow Boards of 1969
1948 Maroubra Surf Carnival
1955 Makaha International Surfing Championships
1958 Makaha International Surfing Championships
1959 Makaha International Surfing Championships
1962 Makaha International Surfing Championships
1963 Makaha International Surfing Championships
1964 BelAir Cigarette Commercial
1964 US Surfing Championships, Huntington
1964 World Surfing Championships newsreel
1965 Duke Invitational, Sunset Beach
1965 Duke Invitational, Sunset Beach (full length)
1965 Malibu Invitational
1965 Tom Morey Invitational
1966 Duke Invitational, Sunset Beach
1966 Duke Invitational, Sunset Beach (full length)
1966 Made-For-TV Makaha Event
1966 Makaha International Surfing Championships
1966 Malibu Invitational
1967 Duke Invitational, Sunset Beach (full length)
1967 East Coast Surfing Championships
1967: First Look at the Short Surfboard
1968 Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Classic (full length)
1969 Surfriders Championship, Queensland
1970 Makaha International in "Five Summer Stories"
1971 Smirnoff Pro-Am, Sunset Beach
1971 US Surfing Championships, Huntington
1973 Smirnoff Pro
1974 Coca-Cola Surfabout
1974 Hang Ten American Pro
1974 Smirnoff Pro, Waimea Bay
1975 Gunston 500, Durban
1975 Rip Curl Pro, Bells Beach
1975 Smirnoff Pro Finals, Waimea Bay
1975 WISA International Championships, Malibu
1975: Hatteras to Sebastian
1977 Stubbies Surf Classic, Burleigh Heads
1977 Wave Rider Magazine Florida Pro
1979 Pipeline Masters
1981 Marui Pro, Chiba, Japan
1981 Pro Class Trials, Sunset Beach
1981 Rip Curl Pro, Bells Beach
1982 Op Pro
1982 Pipeline Masters
1982 Stubbies, from Chris Bystrom's "Blazing Boards"
1983 World Cup, Men
1983 World Cup, Women
1984 Country Feeling Classic
1984 Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Classic, Sunset Beach
1984 Quiksilver / Eddie Aikau Invitational Surfing Classic (long version)
1985 Marui Pro Final, Barton Lynch vs Tom Carroll
1985 Stubbies Surf Classic, Burleigh Heads
1985 World Professional Inland Championships
1986 Quiksilver / Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational (long version)
1986 Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, Waimea Bay (short version)
1986 Stubbies Pro, Oceanside
1990 Coca-Cola Surf Classic, Narrabeen
1995 Billabong Challenge
1995 Billabong Challenge
1996 Airshow, Newport Beach
2005 Pipeline Masters, from "Highwater"
2009 Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, Waimea Bay
2019 EOS Fundraiser (Alt Version)
2019 EOS Fundraiser (Long Version)
2019 EOS Fundraiser Promo (All Chubby Version)
(Video) 2020 EOS Fundraiser
2021 EOS Fundraiser
A Brief Visual History of Wavepools
Ace Buchan
Adriano de Souza
Aerial surfing, 2010
Aerial Surfing: The Early Years
Ala Moana in the Early 1960s
Ala Moana, 1970s
Alana Blanchard
Alby Falzon Talks About "Morning of the Earth"
Alex Knost
Allan Byrne
Aloha Buttons: 1958 - 2013
American Surfers in "Fantastic Plastic Machine"
Andrew McKinnon
Andy Irons
Andy Irons in Jack McCoy's "Blue Horizon" (2004)
Andy Irons, Teahupoo
Angie Reno
Angie Reno, Backside Off-The-Lip
Angie Reno, Hollister Ranch (short)
Angry Sea opening titles (1963)
Arsene Harehoe, 1986
At Home With Barry Kanaiaupuni, 1974
Australian Surfers in "Fantastic Plastic Machine"
Backside Longboarding (short)
Backside Off-the-Lip: a Timeline
Backside Surfing, 1968 World Championships
Baddy Treloar & John J Francis; "Morning of the Earth" Remix
Baddy Treloar, 1969
Barry Kanaiaupuni
Barry Kanaiaupuni, Longboarding in the '60s
Barton Lynch
Beach Bunny: A Retrospective
Becky Benson
Bede Durbidge
Bells '63, from "Endless Summer"
Ben Aipa
Bethany Hamilton
Big Summer Swell, Ala Moana, 1981
Big Wednesday, highway bullfighting scene
Big Z and Cody Shape a Board in Surf's Up (2007)
Bill Delaney interview, 1995
Bill Hamilton, 1967
Bill Hamilton, El Torero, 1968
Bill Hamilton, from "Pacific Vibrations"
Bill Hamilton, Jesus of Cool
Bill Sharp, Billabong Odyssey, 2002
Bill Yerkes on "What's My Line?" (1966)
Bob Cooper
Bob Evans
Bob McTavish
Bob McTavish Does Not Like His Board
Bob McTavish, Design Rap '67
Bob McTavish, Manly Beach, May or June, 1967
Bob Pike
Bob Purvey rides the Ugly, from "Follow Me"
Bob Shepherd
Bob Simmons
Bobby Brown '64
Bobby Martinez, 2015
Bobby Martinez, Teenage Rampage
Bobby Owens
Bobby Owens: Band Camp Superman
Bobby Patterson
Bodyboarding in the '80s
Bodyboarding in the Canary Islands, 2013
Bodysurfing 2012
Bodysurfing in the 1960s
Bombs Away: Michael Ho, Waimea, 1985
Brad Gerlach
Brad McCaul
Brazil Surf Doc (full length)
Brenden Margieson
Brock Little
Brock Little's Big Wave at the 1990 Eddie
Brock Little, Teenage Kicks
Brock Little: 1967 - 2016
Brooks Street, Laguna Beach, 1960
Bruce Brown tribute
Bruce Irons, Mexico
Bruce Irons: The Early Years
Bruce Raymond
Bruce Valluzzi, North Shore 1966-67
Bryce Ellis
Bud Browne
Bud Llamas
Buffalo Keaulana
Burleigh, 1970s
Burleigh, 2005
Burning Man '64: Drop-Ins at the World Championships
Burns and Gomes in Tahiti, 1987
Butch Van Artsdalen
Buttons Kaluhiokalani
Buzzy Kerbox
Buzzy Trent
Buzzy Trent, filmed by Bud Browne
Byron Bay, 1960s
Byron Bay, 2014
Canoe Surfing
Cape St. Francis '71
Carissa Moore
Carlos Burle
Carroll vs Ho, 1991 Pipeline Masters
Caught Inside at Mavericks, from "Riding Giants"
(Video) Caught Inside: Revenge of Poseidon
Chandler and Rick Kane from "North Shore" (1987)
Chappy Jennings
Charlie Kuhn
Chelsea Georgeson-Hedges
Cheyne Horan
Cheyne Horan and the Lazor Zap, early 1980s
Chicama 2010
China Beach, Out of the Shit: Into the Surf
Chris Brown
Chris Lassen
Chris O'Rourke
Christian Fletcher
Christian Fletcher, "My Generation"
Chubby Mitchell
Chuck Dent
Circle Back: Ode to the Spinner
CJ Hobgood, 2012
Claiming: a Restrospective
Claude Codgen
Clay Marzo
Cloudbreak, early 2010's
Club Waikiki, 1965
Clyde Aikau
Coco Ho in "Leave a Message" (2011)
Code Red Swell
Cody vs Tank, from "Surf's Up"
Col Smith (Newcastle)
Col Smith (Sydney)
Competition Sequence from "Pacific Vibrations"
Conrad Canha
Coolite, Bondi Beach
Corky Carroll
Corky Carroll visits Big Surf, Arizona, 1969
Corky Carroll, 1970 Twin-Fin Session, Cottons Point
Corona del Mar, 1927
Cortes Bank, 2001
Cory Lopez, 1995
Cory Lopez, Skeleton Bay, 2008
Cory Lopez, Skeleton Bay, 2008
Courtney Conlogue
Craig Anderson, 2012
Critta Byrne
Dale Dobson
Dale Velzy
Damien Hardman
Damien Hobgood
Dana Point
Dane Kealoha
Dane Kealoha, Tavarua, 1986
Dane Reynolds
Dane Reynolds in "Young Guns 2"
Daniel Friedmann
Daniel Thomson
Danny Kwock
Danny Wills
Darrick Doerner
Darryl Virostko
Dave Chalmers and Max the Dog, 1974
Dave Jackman
Dave MacAulay
Dave Parmenter
Davey Smith
David Eggers
(Video) David Milch on "The Late Late Show"
David Nuuhiwa
David Nuuhiwa: Feel the Burn
David Nuuhiwa: The Fish Years, 1971-1972
David Nuuhiwa; 1966 US Championships
Dean Morrison, 2003
Dean Randazzo
Del Cannon - Surfing is Easy, Comedy is Hard
Del Cannon, in “Barefoot Adventure” (1960)
Dennis Quaid and AnnaSophia Robb, in "Soul Surfer"
Derek Ho
Derek Hynd
Dewey Weber
Dewey Weber on a 7'10' at Manhattan Pier (1959)
Dick Brewer
Dick Catri
Dick Keating
Displacement Hulls at Malibu, 1969
Don Golden, Pleasure Point, 1960
Don James Talks About Lifeguarding in the '40s
Donald Takayama
Donald Takayama, Haleiwa
Donald Takayama: Long Wave, Short Board
Dorian Paskowitz
Dr Kildare, "Tyger, Tyger" Highlights
Dru Harrison
Duke Kahanamoku
Duke Kahanamoku in "No Father to Guide Him" (1925)
Duke Kahanamou in “Isle of Sunken Gold” (1927)
Dungeons, 2013
Early Days at Jaws, from "Riding Giants"
Early Days at Makaha, from "Riding Giants"
Early days on the North Shore, from "Riding Giants"
Eddie Aikau
Edwin Santos
Encyclopedia of Surfing Promo for Florida Surf Film Festival
Evan Slater
Explosive Comedy from "Fluid Drive" (1974)
Expression Session 1971
Extra: An EOS Plus-Size Tribute (Take 1)
Extra: An EOS Plus-Size Tribute (Take 2)
Fabio Gouevia
Faster Twin-Fin! Kill! Kill!
Felipe Pomar
Filipe Toledo
Finless Surfing Before Derek Hynd
First Day at Waimea, from “Liquid Stage” (1996)
First Day at Waimea, from “Riding Giants” (2004)
Flavio Padaratz
(Video) Flea Shaw, from "The Performers" (1965)
Flight of the Beavertail
Fly Away: the Necessity and Tragedy of Surf Racks
Fort Point, San Francisco, 1973
Fred Hemmings
Fred Van Dyke
French Revolution: 1968
Frieda Zamba
Gabriel Medina
Gabriel Medina's 2014 World Title
GAF View-Master: "Educational Surfing With Linda Benson" (1971)
Garrett McNamara
Gary Elkerton
Gary Elkerton's 1991 Barrel Roll
Gary Elkerton, Sunset, 1987
Gary Elkerton: Kong Unleashed
Gary Green
Gary Propper
Gavin Rudolph
Gavin Rudolph, Jeffreys Bay, 1969
George Downing
George Downing
George Downing 1968
George Greenough
George Greenough is Aquaman
George Greenough's Tube Shoots from "Fantastic Plastic Machine"
George Greenough, 1967
George Thompson / Thomopolous
Gerry Lopez
Gerry Lopez nose-tweaking at the Pipeline
Gerry Lopez: Odds and Ends
Glassing 1967: Voiceover by George Downing
Glassing, 1998
Glen Winton
Gotcha Pro, Sandy Beach, 1988
Grajagan, 1980
Grajagan, 1998
Grant Baker
Great Lakes Surfing, from "Step Into Liquid"
Greg Long
Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman, from "Sunshine Sea"
Greg Mungall
Greg Noll
Greg Noll Reviews "Ride the Wild Surf"
Greg Noll Shapes a Balsa Surfboard, 1956
Greg Noll wipeouts
Greg Noll, Makaha '69, From "Riding Giants" (2003)
Haleiwa, 1957
Haleiwa, 1974
Haleiwa, 1980, from "Wizards of the Water"
Haleiwa, 2007
Hang Ten
Hanging Heels '67
Hans Hedemann
Harold Iggy
Hector Velarde
Herbie "The Kid" Fletcher
Herbie Fletcher
Herbie Fletcher, Maalaea, 1985
Hevs McClelland and Bruce Brown, 1965
Hey Mark Richards! Is Bells overrated?
Hobie Alter
Hollow Surfboard
Hollow Surfboard at Malibu, around 1940
Honolua Bay 1967
Honolua Bay, 1976
Honolua Bay, 2012
Honolua Bay, Mid-'60s
Horan vs. Carroll, 1984 Rip Curl Pro, Bells Beach
Huge Monday
Huntington Beach, 2012
Huntington Beach, Early '60s
Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey
I Can't Feel My Face: A Short Look at the Wetsuit
Iain Buchanan
Ian Cairns
Iceland, 2009
(Video) Ilima Kalama, 1962
Indonesia Sequence from "Dear Suburbia" (2012)
Interview: Bruce Brown
Intro to "Blazing Boards," featuring Chris Bystrom
Intro to "Stylemasters," by Greg Weaver and Spyder Wills
Intro to "The Search II"
(Video) Intro to Bruce Brown's "Slippery When Wet"
Intro to Bud Browne's "Going Surfin'"
Intro to John Severson's "Angry Sea" (1963)
Irons vs Slater, 2003 Pipeline Masters
Italo Ferreira, 2016
J Riddle
Jack Haley
Jack McCoy talks about "Occy: the Occumentary"
Jack O'Neill
Jack Shipley interview, 1981
Jackie Baxter
Jackie Dunn
Jackie Eberle
James Jones
Jamie O'Brien
Jan and Dean on the T.A.M.I. Show
Jax Beach '64
Jay Adams: 1961 - 2014
Jay and Frosty, from "Chasing Mavericks"
Jay Moriarity, Mavericks, 1994
Jeff Booth
Jeff Clark in "Riding Giants"
Jeff Crawford
Jeff Hakman
Jeff Spicoli, 'I'm So Wasted!'
Jeffreys Bay, 1970s
Jeffreys Bay, 1984
Jeffreys Bay, early 2000s
Jeremy Flores
Jericho Poppler
Jet Board, 1965
Jim Banks
Jim Blears
Jim Foley
Jim Neece
Jimmy Lucas
Jock Sutherland
Jock Sutherland, 1967
Jock Sutherland, scenes from 'Pacific Vibrations'
Jodie Cooper
Joe Engel
Joe Quigg
Joe Roland
Joel Parkinson, 2003
Joel Parkinson, 2012
Joel Tudor
Joey Buran
Joey Buran Wins 1984 Pipeline Masters
Joey Cabell
Joey Cabell rides the White Ghost, 1970
Joey Cabell, Tamarin Bay, 1973
Joey Hamasaki
John From Cincinnati opening titles
John John Florence
John John Florence in "Lost Atlas" (2011)
John John Florence, Pipeline, age 8
John Peck
John Peck, Smoking Honolua Bay, 1964
John Severson Talks About "Pacific Vibrations"
John Severson, 1933 - 2017
Johnny Fain
Johnny Fain: Beach Movie Extra
Johnny-Boy Gomes
Jon Damm
Jordy Smith, from "Bending Colours" (2012)
Jorge Machuca
Jose Angel
Joseph "Scooter Boy" Kaopuiki
Josh Kerr
Joyce Hoffman
Julian Wilson
Julian Wilson in "Bending Colours" (2012)
Kai Otton
Kaipo Jaquias
Kalani Robb
Kassia Meador
Keala Kennelly
Keith Paull, France, 1968
Kelly Slater on The Today Show (1994)
Kelly Slater, Cloudbreak, 1991
Kelly Slater, from "In Black and White"
Kelly Slater, World Title #10
Kelly Slater: the Momentum Years
Kemp Aaberg
Kemp Aaberg in "Slippery When Wet" (1958)
Ken Bradshaw
Keone Downing
Kieren Perrow
Kim Mearig
Kimo Hollinger
Kirra in the Early '70s
Kirra, before Superbank
Kneeboarding 2011
Kneeboarding in the 1970s
Koby Abberton
Kolohe Andino
Kookslams Reject #1: Tandem
Kookslams Reject #2: Skateboarding
Kookslams Reject #3: Suckout
Kookslams Reject #4: Fence Post
Kookslams Reject #5: Brooks Street
La Jolla 1959: Surfing and Stormtrooping
Laird Hamilton at Peahi
Laird Hamilton, Motor-Free
Lakey Peterson
Lance Carson
Larry Bertlemann
Larry Bertlemann interview, 1982
Larry Bertlemann, Off the Wall, 1974
Larry Blair
Laura Enever
Layne Beachley
Les Miserables: Rip Curl Pro, Hossegor, 1993
Les Willliams, Early '50s
Liam McNamara
LIGHT THIS CANDLE—Encyclopedia of Surfing Is Ready for Launch
Lightning Bolt
Linda Benson
Linda Davoli
Linda Merrill
Lining up at Mavericks, from "Riding Giants"
Lisa Andersen
LJ Richards
Luke Egan
Lynette MacKenzie, 1994 Marui Pro
Lynn Boyer, 1976 Interview
Lynne Boyer
Maalaea '62, from "Angry Sea"
Maalaea '72, from "Island Magic"
Maalaea '81, from "Tales of the Seven Seas"
Maalaea '85, from "Amazing Surf Stories"
Maalaea, 1985
Maalaea, 2005
(Video) Magic Moments: The Perfect Wave
Makaha Backwash, Early 1960s
Makaha in the Early '70s
Malibu Chip Surfboard
Malibu Comes to Sydney, 1956
Malibu Surf Trip, 1965
Malibu, 1940s
Malibu, 1960s
Marge Calhoun
Margo Oberg
Mark Foo
Mark Foo's Last Wave
Mark Foo, on Dateline (1995)
Mark Foo: In the Moment
Mark Healey
Mark Liddell
Mark Martinson
Mark Occhilupo, Bells Beach
Mark Occhilupo, Young Bull
Mark Renneker, Ocean Beach, 1993
Mark Richards
Mark Richards' 2014 Birthday Tribute
Mark Richards, Hawaii 1975-76
Mark Sainsbury
Mark Warren
Martin Potter
Martin Potter, Tow Surfing at Pipeline in 1987
Marvin Foster
Marvin Foster in Blazing Boards (1983)
Marvin Foster in Gone Surfin' (1987)
Marvin Foster in Wave Warriors (1985)
Mary Ann Hawkins
Mat Surfing Blows Up
Matt Archbold
Matt Archbold, 1997
Matt Archbold, Boy Wonder
Matt Branson
Matt Branson in "Filthy Habits" (1987)
Matt George, from "In God's Hands"
Matt Hoy
Matt Kechele
Matt Wilkinson
Maurice Cole
Mavericks 1994
Mavericks in the News, KPIX Channel 5, Dec 23, 1994
Mavericks on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, 1994
Mavericks Wipeouts, from "Riding Giants"
Mavericks, 2012
Maya Gabeira
Maz Quinn, 2000
Meeting Kahuna, from 'Gidget' (1959)
Megan Abubo
Melanie Redman-Carr
Merv Larson
Michael Barry
Michael Ho
Michael Ho, Rocky Point
Michael Peterson
Michael Tomson
Michel Bourez
Mick Campbell
Mick Dooley '64
Mick Fanning, 2003
Mick Fanning, 2011-12
Mick Lowe, 1997
Mickey Muñoz
Midget Farrelly
Midget Farrelly Rides His Stringerless Model
Midget Farrelly's Surf-Skate Competition Team (1965)
Midget Farrelly, Road to Makaha
Mike Diffenderfer
Mike Doyle
Mike Esposito
Mike Hynson
Mike Hynson in "The Endless Summer"
Mike Hynson Interview, 1986
Mike Hynson, Little Red Rooster
Mike Lambresi
Mike Parsons, Peahi, 2002
Mike Purpus
Mike Purpus, "Creamed"
Mike Rommelse
Mike Stewart
Mike Tabeling in "Pacific Vibrations" (1970)
Mike Tabeling, 1949 - 2014
Mike Tabeling, the Ranch, 1970
Miki Dora
Miki Dora on the North Shore
Mimi Munro
Mitch Thorson
Monster from New Zealand, 1975
MTV promo for "Surf Girls"
Mundaka
Nachum Shifren
Nancy Nelson
Narrabeen, 1981
Nat Young
Nat Young 1970
Nat Young in "Fantastic Plastic Machine" (1969)
Nat Young rides Magic Sam (1966)
Nat Young, 1968
Nat Young, Backside
Nat Young, Santa Cruz, 2012
Nat Young, Teenaged Animal
Nathan Fletcher
Natividad 1987
Naughton-Peterson, Latin America, 1974
Nazare '68, from "Follow Me"
Nazare, 2013-14
Neco Padaratz
Newport Pier, 1960s
Newport Point, Hurricane Marie, 2014
Nicky Wood
Noah Johnson
Noosa, 1967
Noseriding in the '60s
Ode to the Head Dip
Op Pro, 1998
Opening Credits for “Cosmic Children”
Opening for "Storm Riders," by Dick Hoole and Jack McCoy
Opening Sequence for "Sipping Jetstreams"
Opening Sequence to "Morning of the Earth"
Opening to "Fantastic Plastic Machine" (1969)
Opening to Tony Roberts' "O'Zone" (1990)
Over the Falls: Greatest Hits
Owen Wright
Owl Chapman
Owl Chapman: "Give a Wave"
Ozzie Wright
Ozzie Wright in "Computer Body" (2000)
Pa Bendall, Bells, 1970
Padang Padang, 2012
Padang Padang, early '80s
Paige Alms
Pam and the Pashions, "Summertime All 'Round the World" (1984)
Pam Burridge
Pam Burridge on "Simon Townsend's Wonder World!" (1985)
Pancho Sullivan
Pat Curren
Pat O'Connell
Paul Gebauer
Paul Neilsen
Paul Strauch
Pauline Menczer
Peahi, 2012
Pepe Lopes
Personal Watercraft, from "Riding Giants" (2004)
Pete Peterson
Pete Peterson & Barrie Algaw, 1966 Makaha Championships
Peter Cole
Peter Crawford
Peter Drouyn
Peter McCabe
Peter Mel
Peter Pan, 1999
Peter Townend
Peter Townend and the Rincon Hoax from "Fluid Drive" (1974)
Peter Townend: "You Gotta Put on a Show"
Peterson Rosa
Phil Edwards and "Baby"
Phil Edwards in "Surfing Hollow Days"
Phil Edwards in Slow Motion
Phil Edwards' Pipeline debut
Phil Edwards, 1966 Interview
Phyllis O'Donell
Pico Alto, 2011
Pipeline Pioneers, 1966
Pipeline Sequence from "Step Into Liquid" (2003)
Pipeline Wipeouts from the 1980s
Pipeline, 1972-74
Pipeline, 2010-12
Plank Surfboard
Point Panic, 1980
Postmodern Alaia
Puerto Escodido, 2014
Puerto Escondido, 1994
Purpus and Lopez, Sharing at Pipeline, 1975
Rabbit Kekai
Rabbit Kekai, 1920 - 2016
Ranch Sequence from "Pacific Vibrations"
Randy Rarick
Rell Sunn
Remix: Cape St. Francis '63
Renny Yater
Reno Abellira
Reno Abellira Rides the Disc; Victoria, Australia, 1970
Reno Abellira: "Style is a Gift"
Rhythm Method: Surfers on the Dance Floor
Rich Chew
Richard Cram
Richard Marsh
Richard Schmidt
Richard Schmidt, Swift Street, 1983
Richie Collins
Rick Griffin
Rick Griffin, Hollister Ranch, 1970
Rick Rasmussen: You Can Take The Boy Out Of New York But
Ricky Grigg
Ricky Grigg: "Two Sports"
Ricky Grigg: 1937 - 2014
Ride the Wild Surf: The Remix
Riding Hollow Boards in Australia During the 1940s
Rincon, 1960s
Rincon, 1972
Rincon, 2012
River Surfing
Rizal Tanjung
Rob Bain
Rob Machado in "The Drifter" (2009)
Rob Machado: the Momentum Years
Robbie Page
Robert August
Robert Weaver, 1997
Rochelle Ballard
Rocketmen '72
Rod Sumpter
Roger Erickson
Rolf Aurness
Ron Drummond
Ron Sizemore
Ronnie Burns
Rory Russell
Ross Clarke-Jones, Mid-'80s
Ross Williams, the Momentum Years
Ross Williams, Western Australia, 1996
Russell Hughes
Russell Hughes, Bodysurfing at the 1968 World Championships
Rusty Miller
Ryan Dotson, 1971 Smirnoff Pro-Am
Ryan Dotson, Sunset Beach
Sally Fitzgibbons
Sam Hawk
Sam Hawk, Training Day
San Onofre, 1963
San Onofre, early '50s
Sandboarding, 1982
Sandboarding, Peru, 2016
Sandboarding, Pismo Beach, 1965
Sandy Beach in "Slippery When Wet" (1958)
Sandy Beach, 2014
Sarah Gerhardt
Scenes from "Golden Breed," by Dale Davis
Scenes from "The Natural Art"
Scenes from Alby Falzon's "Morning of the Earth" (1972)
Scenes from Jim Freeman's "The Glass Wall" (1965)
Scorpion Bay in Scott Dittrich's "Fluid Drive" (1974)
Sebastian Inlet, Hurricane Felix
Sebastian Inlet, late 70s
Secret Agent Lopez
Segment from Kai Neville's "Lost Atlas" (2011)
Seven Sisters, 1962
Severn Bore, 1975
Severn Bore, England, 1967
Shane Beschen
Shane Beschen's 30-Point Heat at Kirra (1996)
Shane Dorian and Shaun Tomson from "In God's Hands" (1998)
Shane Dorian, 2012
Shane Dorian, the Momentum Years
Shane Herring
Shane Powell
Shaper, the British Surf Guru, in Blue Juice (1995)
Shaping Lesson, from "Surf's Up" (2007)
Sharron Weber
Shaun Tomson
Shaun Tomson's Favorite J-Bay Surfers
Shawn Briley
Shipstern Bluff, 2011
Shoot the Pier
Shuji Kasuya
Simon Anderson
Simon Anderson talks about the Thruster, 1981
Sion Milosky
Skateboarding in the '70s
Skateboarding, 1965
Skimboarding
Skip Frye
Snow McAllister
Sofia Mulanovich
Sonny Miller: 1960 - 2014
South Bay Time Machine
Stanley Park, Pipeline '67
Steamer Lane, 1962
Steamer Lane, 1994
Stephanie Gilmore
Steve and Barrie Boehne, Tandem Skateboarding, 1974
Steve Bigler
Steve Petty rides a shortboard in 1962
Stoked: The Very Short Movie
Stomping at Hermosa Beach, 1965
Stuart Bedford-Brown
Sunny Garcia
Sunset Beach, 1959
Sunset Beach, 1974
Sunset Beach, from Dale Davis' "Golden Breed" (1968)
Sunset Beach: the "Wave Warriors" Years
Surf Boat '38
Surf Cars of the '50s and '60s
Surf Contest: Hermosa Beach, 1970
Surf Rap with Dick Brewer and Owl Chapman (1971)
Surfers Talk About Tuberiding
Surfers' Knots
Surfing and Skating, from 'Dogtown and Z-Boys'
Surfing and Smoking in the Sixties
Surfing Dogs
Surfing in India, 1968
Surfing in Ireland, from "Litmus" (1995)
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Switchfoot
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Terry Fitzgerald: Faster than a Locomotive
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The North Shore, from Steve Soderberg's "Ticket to Ride" (1986)
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Todos Santos, 1983
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Tom Blake interview, 1971
Tom Carroll
Tom Carroll's 'Wave of the Winter,' December 5, 1988
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Tom Curren Interview, 1986
Tom Curren on MTV'S "Alternative Nation" (1995)
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Tom Morey, Boogie '72
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Top Ten Noseriders, as Picked by Phil Edwards
Torquay, 1970, from "Weekend Magazine"
Tow Surfing Begins; from "Riding Giants" (2004)
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Tow Surfing, Early '60s, Shot by Bud Browne
Trailer for "The Sunshine Sea" (1971)
Trestles, "Only Seventeen"
Trestles, "Only Seventeen"
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Trestles, early '60s
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Tuberiding: A Brief Illustrated History
Twin-Fin Surfing, 1970
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Uluwatu, 1970s
Uluwatu, 2011
Unleashed: When Surfboards Roamed Free
Velzyland '57: Weber vs Aaberg
Velzyland, 1975
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Waikiki Beachboys
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Waikiki, 1906
Waikiki, 1939
Waikiki, 1960
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Waimea '67, from "Sunshine Sea"
Waimea Bay in "Golden Breed" (1967)
Waimea Bay, 1974
Wally Froiseth Talks About Contest Judging
Wally Froiseth, 1919 - 2015
Watching Those Who Watch Those Who "Ride the Wild Surf"
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Windansea Surf Club, 1967
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World Surfing Championships, 1968
World Surfing Championships, 1972
World Tour 2014: This is What You Want?
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