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the hot generation


First release.1967 May
Directed/Camera/Script by Paul Witzig.
Surfers : Bob McTavish, Russell Hughes, Kevin Brennan, Bobby Brown, Rodney Stumper, Nat Young, Peter Drouyn, Midget Farrelly, Robert Connelly, Keith Paull, Ted Spencer, George Greenough, Reno Dick Brewer, Buddy Boy.
Locations :Noosa, Byron Bay, France, Burleigh Heads, Bells Beach (Austrailian Titles or Easter contest 1967?)
 

Second release1968
Directed/Camera/Script by Paul Witzig.
Commentary by John Thompson (ABC radio announcer).
Poster: Photograph -Nat Young cutback by Ron Stoner (World Titles, Ocean Beach USA 1966 - Not shown in film) with text - 'Paul Witzig's incredible world of surfing with...' in psychedelic style.
 Surfers : Bob McTavish, Russell Hughes, Kevin Brennan, Bobby Brown, Rodney Stumper, Nat Young, Peter Drouyn, Midget Farrelly, Robert Connelly, Keith Paull, Ted Spencer, George Greenough, Reno, Dick Brewer, Buddy Boy.
Locations :Noosa, Byron Bay, France, Burleigh Heads, Bells Beach (Austrailian Titles or Easter contest 1967?),  Maui/Honolau Bay



Surfers, Locations and Surfboards
Part 1.  Noosa
Bob McTavish, Russell Hughes, Kevin Brennan. Greenough fins, Thin-rail Malibus ('Sam')

Part 2:  Byron Bay
Bob McTavish, Russell Hughes, Kevin Brennan, Bobby Brown/G&S Surfboards Noserider

Part 3:  France- Rodney Stumper/Union Jack board
Note red board with clear Greenough Spoon type concave nose (Paul Witzig's?) that appears several times in transit in Part 3.

Part 4:  Burleigh Heads
Nat Young, Peter Drouyn

Part 5:  Bells: includes Australian Titles and/or Easter contest 1967?
Nat Young : Gordon Woods Surfboards, with deep Vee in tail and Greenough flex fin.
Kelly: "Nat fattened his fins and especially the leading edge to reduce drag, similar to the foil on a dolphin's fin."
Midget Farrelly : Stringerless with concave nose:
Kelly: "super light big board with a huge nose lift."
Russell Hughes, Shane Surfboards?
Kelly: " a radical 9' 10" gun with a pure planing section aft flowing into a 10" pod and 18" fin."
Robert Connelly : Slipcheck nose
Keith Paull: Peter Clarke Surfboards?, Slipcheck nose,
Bobby Brown : Gordon and Smith Surfboards
Kelly: "The trend was for very light thin railed boards, many with nose and back sections sprayed for extra feet grip."
Bob McTavish : Keyo Surfboards (Slipcheck centre)
Kelly: "(Spectator McTavish killed them all by only spraying the middle)."
Limited wetsuit use.
Peter Drouyn (unsure if footage included).
Sutherland: "Riding a very short and light board,"
For magazine articles, see:
1967 Ross Kelly : Australian Titles, Bells.
Surfing World Volume 9 Number 1, April-May 1967, pages 10 to 27.
and
1967 Barry Sutherland : Australian Titles, Bells.
Surfabout Volume 4 Number 1, June 1967, pages 18 to 23.

Part 6: Maui/Honolau Bay
Nat Young : Gordon Woods/Keyo Surfboards? 9 ft 6"extended Pin nose Vee bottom - with repaired broken nose
Bob McTavish 9 ft 4" Keyo Surfboards extended Pin nose Vee bottom
Ted Spencer 8 ft 9"(Shane Surfboards)/'Little Red' Pintail
George Greenough : Velo (Spoon) and Mat,
Buddy Boy : Brewer Surfboards Pipeliner Pintail. 



COMMENTS
1.Title puns on The Who's My Generation
2. Skips V bottom development period, June to December 1967.
See WindanSea Contest October 1967 in Eric Blum's The Fantastic Plastic Machine, 1968.
3. Note red board with clear Greenough Spoon type concave nose (Paul Witzig's?) that appears several times in transit in Part 3. Also see Nat Young/Gordon Woods Surfboards Cuttlefish 1965 and Scott Dillon Spoon Nose, 1966.
Film Details

Follow the Surf
The Hot Generation
Evolution
Poster Images

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