This program includes three of Bruce Brown's short films: "The Wet Set," featuring the Hobie-MacGregor Surf Team; "America's Newest Sport," presenting the Hobie Super Surfer Skateboard Team; and an early television special which includes the first surfing trip to Japan with 12-year-old Peter Johnson and Del Cannon in a segment filmed, but not used for, "The Endless Summer."
Surfin' Shorts is of 0 hour(s) and 56 minute(s). It is Produced By: . It was released on 1964-01-01.
Genres: Documentary
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