Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Sauers, Phil (1937-2022)
- Abstract:
- This collection consists of surfing memorabilia, photographs, and business records from surfer, surfboard shaper, and Hollywood surfing technical consultant and writer Phil Sauers (1937-2022).
- Extent:
- 0.42 Linear Feet (1 document box)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Phil Sauers surfing memorabilia and other materials, FMST Mss 5. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection consists of surfing memorabilia, photographs, and business records from surfer, surfboard shaper, and Hollywood surfing technical consultant and writer Phil Sauers (1937-2022). The collection documents Sauers' professional activities as a surfing technical consultant and surfboard producer for the films Ride the Wild Surf (1964) and The Surfers (1965), as well as for the television show Gidget (1965).
The materials date from 1963 to 1965, and include stickers, two magazines, proof sheets, film production records, and two small color slides of Barbara Eden on set in Hawaii during the filming of Ride the Wild Surf. Included among the photographs are black-and-white 8x11 inch prints of Sauers surfing.
Business records include invoices for surfboards shaped by Sauers (Surfboards by Phil) for use in Gidget and other productions, corrrespondence between Sauers (Phil Enterprises) and Columbia Studios, Filmways TV Productions Inc., and photographer Tom Keck.
- Acquisition information:
- Library purchase, 2023.
- Physical location:
- Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Phil Sauers surfing memorabilia and other materials, FMST Mss 5. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062