Hi Guys,
I love retro movies but don’t own many and have seen only a few…I recently bought the Chasing the Lotus DVD which has some excellent footage in but far too much chat for my liking - it refers to 3 movies that I really want to get hold of - The forgotten Island of Santosha, Pacific Vibrations and Uluwatu…does anyone know if they are available on DVD and if so where can I get hold of them?
Cheers
Richard
Thirdshade…a few years ago I tried to get a copy and never succeeded. Someone said there is a legal ownership issues and that it is not currently being sold.
i’ve got the first two mentioned, and a price. what’s yours?
http://www.pacificvibrations.com/
Im assuming this is not a digital remastering but a copy of the vhs transfered to DVD format. but I don’t know so better ask them.A friend ordered it and it should be arriving later this week.
Howzit thirdshade, Google surf videos and there’s lots of sited to check out. Aloha,Kokua
Hi Matt
I would be very interested in purchasing th DVDs if you’re selling - how much and where are you? I’m in Cornwall England.
Cheers
Richard
Richard,
Uluwatu is a short film and included as bonus footage on the skate DVD “Downhill Motion” . I think I saw some of the footage in “Chasing the Lotus”.
I got a copy of Santosha but it was in the secondary market and they’re hard to find. Someone loaned me their copy before I went and tracked one down.
PV
i’ve got the first two mentioned, and a price. what’s yours?
my price is zero…cuz i’m broke. though, i’d love to borrow them for a quick view and prompt return 
I’ve got forgotten isle of santosha. Unless you turn the sound down you’ll be asleep in the first 5 minutes. Cool vid though.
I totally agree. I remember being bored to tears (or was that the p_t smoke in my eyes) by that movie when it came out. Backside single fin gun surfing on waist high waves; over and over and over again. Good thing the other poster is broke cause I certainly wouldn’t spend a dime on it.
This is an archived link to their site. You may want to try the phone numbers. I heard the maker of the flick got in trouble with the taxman and ended up in jail.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030524181305/http://www.santoshathemovie.com/
The two main guys in the movie are Roger and Larry Yates. Two brothers that took off(with another friend I believe) in search of perfect surf. They just so happened to have a good video camera and a couple of pintails. With just sketchy reports of certain spots they set off blind. There’s some footage with Gerry and Rory if I remember correctly. The forgotten isle is the left reef pass at mauritius in the southern indian ocean off madagascar. Incredible wave. Shallow. Amazing actually how well they surfed it considering the equipment and mind set in those days. Alot of times falling meant swimming for a while. There’s some good stuff in tahiti as well. Big ledging barrels.Larry still shapes boards in encinitas for his two sons Matt and Shea which are both great surfers. I’ve actually mistaken Matt for Rob Machado from the bluff a couple of times on some good sized waves. Larry Still has a very driven desire for perfection in everything from his shapes, to his fins (most of which he designs himself), to his kids approach to surfing. Have not seen Roger for many years. Oh well, a little history…
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The two main guys in the movie are Roger and Larry Yates. Two brothers that took off(with another friend I believe) in search of perfect surf. They just so happened to have a good video camera and a couple of pintails. With just sketchy reports of certain spots they set off blind. There's some footage with Gerry and Rory if I remember correctly. The forgotten isle is the left reef pass at mauritius in the southern indian ocean off madagascar. Incredible wave. Shallow. Amazing actually how well they surfed it considering the equipment and mind set in those days. Alot of times falling meant swimming for a while. There's some good stuff in tahiti as well. Big ledging barrels.Larry still shapes boards in encinitas for his two sons Matt and Shea which are both great surfers. I've actually mistaken Matt for Rob Machado from the bluff a couple of times on some good sized waves. Larry Still has a very driven desire for perfection in everything from his shapes, to his fins (most of which he designs himself), to his kids approach to surfing. Have not seen Roger for many years. Oh well, a little history...
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fascinating !
thanks jjr ! / lokbox !
I WOULD love to see this movie , as I missed it when it first came out
can't seem to find it on dvd here in west oz ...
Also...
....would interest me enormously too !
I think I'll search it out , in local bookstores .... [ I just hope that it is available here , in wozzieland?]
cheers !
ben
OOOOOOOOOOOOOH, Jimmy, Roger is around and about. A few weeks ago he was trying to sell me a xerox’d copy of a Joan Biaz poster for 25 bucks, but, he did give me a copy of the DVD version of Santosha.
Larry would be the best bet on getting one
Funny: ran into Larry in a parking lot while checking the surf down
in San Diego last year. I didn’t recognize him as he walked purposefully toward us
and at first thought we were about to get panhandled. Then he whips out
a copy of “Santosha” and launches into his sales pitch. He wasn’t
obnoxious about it or anything, and we wound up having a pleasant reminisce about “the
good old days”, etc… Also wound up buying a copy for $10 or $15.
Mauritius was actually first surfed back in the 60s by some French guys, if memory serves.
" Mauritius was actually first surfed back in the 60s by some French guys, if memory serves. "
and ...was it also the left that Wayne Lynch surfed in the 1971 movie 'Sea Of Joy' , when he does a FLOATER , on a HIDEOUS looking s-deck ?? [if it wasn't , it looks a bit like the angle they get at ? 'lances left' / 'one palm' ??]
jim the genius ...was it a good movie to watch ? [considering , as jjr rightly said , the 'equipment' they were riding back then ...]
cheers !
ben
Supposedly, Joel De Rosnay surfed there in 1958. He wrote an article about the island for Surfer Mag in 1963.
Apparently, surfing and exploring are just side notes to De Rosnay’s accomplishments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joël_de_Rosnay
If memory serves, he was once married to John Severson’s daughter, Jenna.
Edit: Jenna Severson was Joel’s sister in law. She was married to Arnuad De Rosnay, who was 19 years her senior. Arnaud joined his brother on early trips to Mauritius, among other places.
If you’re still looking 5 years later, haha http://www.thaliasurf.com/goisofsadvd.html I don’t know about this company. I would check them out before giving them my credit card numbers, that is IF they still have any. Amazon has one other if others may want it – Chasing The Lotus / Lost Reels
Those inside stories are great. Got any more?
