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90014_43656_'60s_Hippie_Surf_05

1960s
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This 1960s home movie shows artful footage of surfing, including abstract color shots and the after effects of a natural disaster.

The silhouette of a person surfs waves in the light of a golden sunset. The camera shows abstract red, liquid shapes and out of focus colors. 

A man is seen surfing upside down and backwards; the sequence freezes a few times. 

A number of people surf on a sunny day.

A number of nature shots show densely forested hillsides, a waterfall, a tree canopy, two more waterfalls, a valley, and what appears to be a glimpse of an orange sunset through intersecting hills.

A long shot (LS) shows people surfing on a sunny day while more people, in their bathing suits,  watch from the rocky coast. A pan of the coast segues into a shot of a man holding onto a chain link fence, looking out onto the horizon with his dog. 

Enormous waves crash into the coast  before the camera shows the aftermath of a natural disaster including: a van halfway sunk in mud, a destroyed house, two cars in water, and more destroyed and broken down homes; a point of view shot from a car shows a group of people gathered around wreckage.