Editing The Endless Summer (section)

==Legacy==
When ''The Endless Summer'' premiered on June 15, 1966, it encouraged many surfers to travel abroad, giving birth to the "surf-and-travel" culture, with prizes for finding "uncrowded surf", meeting new people and riding the "perfect wave". It also introduced the sport, which had become popular outside of [[Hawaii]] and the [[Polynesia]]n Islands in places like [[California]] and Australia, to a broader audience.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

The then-unknown break off [[Cape St. Francis]] in South Africa, characterized as having the “perfect wave”, became one of the world's most famous surfing sites thanks to ''The Endless Summer''.<ref name="cosford">{{cite magazine | last = Cosford | first = Bill | title = Beach Culture | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = June 10, 1994| url = https://ew.com/article/1994/06/10/bruce-browns-endless-summer-continues/ | access-date = 2010-05-26 }}</ref>

In 2002, ''The Endless Summer'' was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Librarian of Congress Adds 25 Films to National Film Registry|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-02-176/librarian-of-congress-adds-25-films-to-national-film-registry/2002-12-17/|access-date=2020-09-30|website=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=2020-09-30|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>