Surf movies fall into three distinct genres:The surfing documentary — targeting the surfing enthusiast.
The 1960's beach party films — targeting the broader community.
Fictional feature films with a focus on the reality of surfing.
Gidget (1959)
Bruce Alan Brown was an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film. He was the father of filmmaker Dana Brown.
Brown in the mid-1960s during the making of The Endless Summer
Brown was inducted into the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California.