California Surf Museum Film Screening: “The 1965 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship”
California Surf Museum Film Screening: “The 1965 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship”
California Surf Museum Film Screening: The 1965 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship
The first annual Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship was a one-day event held December 15, 1965 at Sunset Beach in perfect 10-12 foot surf. Twenty-four of the world’s best surfers were invited to compete. The television film coverage was directed by Larry Lindberg, a pioneer in sports television coverage in the early 1960s who was the first to package and produce televised surf competition for the major national television networks.
California Surf Museum Film Screening: The 1965 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship
The first annual Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship was a one-day event held December 15, 1965 at Sunset Beach in perfect 10-12 foot surf. Twenty-four of the world’s best surfers were invited to compete. The television film coverage was directed by Larry Lindberg, a pioneer in sports television coverage in the early 1960s who was the first to package and produce televised surf competition for the major national television networks.
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