136 – Let’s Be Frank: Peter Hamblin & Frank Solomon

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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In today’s episode, David chats with filmmaker Peter Hamblin and professional surfer Frank Solomon about their new film “Let’s Be Frank”. From concept, to funding, to locations, to Frank’s back-breaking wipeout, we discuss all this seminal, and potentially genre redefining film. Enjoy! CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FILM And here’s a few production stills from … Continue reading "136 – Let’s Be Frank: Peter Hamblin & Frank Solomon" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to Surf Splender. I'm your host, David Scales. The subject of today's episode is a newly released surf film called Let's Be Frank.
0:56.7	Surf film, it's an important medium to surfing that was really ignited by The Endless Summer.
1:02.6	Seminole surf film from the early 60s.
1:05.3	Sure, surf films came before that, but the Endless Summer really launched careers and inspired generations of
1:13.4	filmmakers. And really the influence of the Endless Summer is hard to track. It's so ubiquitous in
1:18.9	surf culture. Although it wasn't really my citizen cane, I was raised in the 90s. I was a Taylor
1:25.4	Steel fan. Somebody who, by the way, I've been emailing with for years trying to get on this podcast.
1:30.4	He's actually agreed to come on this podcast.
1:33.3	It's just that in the three years that we've been emailing, our schedules have not quite aligned, believe it or not.
1:38.9	But incidentally, Taylor's new film project, proximity, looks like it'll be really incredible.
1:43.8	They're doing a lot of advertising and kind of... Taylor's new film project, Proximity, looks like it'll be really incredible.
1:50.1	They're doing a lot of advertising and kind of little trailers leading up to the film behind-the-scenes stuff, so you could find all of that on YouTube.
1:53.3	Anyway, growing up in the 90s, I was a huge Taylor Steel fan.
1:57.1	I was a Tony Roberts fan.
1:58.8	I was a Bill Ballard fan.
2:00.5	I was a huge Lost Enterprises fan was a Bill Ballard fan. I was a huge lost enterprises fan. And what
2:04.1	surf film represented in my youth has died. The formula and the structure is basically the same as it was
2:12.1	then, but that's the precise problem for me. I have evolved into a more nuanced human being than I was in the
2:19.3	early 90s. And surfing means something different to me now. And there's been no one making
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