Gidget 1959

a short scene from the 1959 movie "Gidget". The movie had a role in showing surfing to a mainstream public opening the way for surf music and beach and surf culture inspired by what was going on in Hawaii, California and later on also Australia. The original Gidget was created by Frederick Kohner in his 1957 novel Gidget, The Little Girl With Big Ideas, written in the first person and based on the accounts of his daughter Kathy (now Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman) of the surf culture of Malibu Point. Kohner, a Czechoslovakian Jew, worked in the German film industry as a screenwriter until 1933 when he emigrated to Hollywood after the Nazis started removing Jewish credits from films. Over the coming decades Kohner and his wife Franzie raised their two daughters by the beach while he toiled as a screenwriter for Columbia Pictures. As his children grew into American teenagers he noticed that his daughter Kathy in particular was drawn into a very specific, regional, contemporary slice of American teenage culture the surf culture.
Surfing was a then minor youth movement that built its foundation around a sport, love of the beach, and jargon that must have proved a challenge to an Eastern European immigrant. The details fascinated Kohner, who was empathetic with his daughter's feminist intention to participate in a "boys-only" sport. A book was conceived and Kathy became her father's muse as he delved into the surfing world with his daughter as his guide. Over a six week period Kohner wove the stories she told into a novel, which he titled upon completion with her nickname, Gidget. more text detailed about the history of surf on this channel under the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVIo0y... "History of Surf, from the kings of Hawaii to haole, California, Australia and the rest of the world" and some about the history of surf rock under the video Misrilou of Dick Dale and his Del-Tones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLxqm7... on this channel

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