Every wave-rider has had that moment of watching surfing on some kind of screen. Maybe it was an ideal wave from some remote point halfway around the globe. Perhaps it was flawless surfing. Maybe it was Tom Curren?
Either way, it simply made you want to surf more than anything in the world. And there are seminal films that have defined each era.
By most accounts, the first surf filmmaker was Bud Brown, who made some 17 films beginning as far back as the early 1950s. But when you talk about who brought surfing to the world, that would be Bruce Brown (no relation).
In fact, you could go so far as to call Bruce Brown the godfather of all action-sports films, as he was … Videos and More
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