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BRUCE -BROWN WORKING ON fIL,M ABOUT MOTORCYCLE COMPETI'TION By Bob Sanford DANA POINT, CALIF . - Well, sports fans, Bruce Brown -surfer, biker, f1lrn maker- is at it again. This time, maIdng a nick about motorcycles. Or, a Uttle more spec1ficially, about motorcycle events, riders, machines, spectators and the Iike, Of course, this Is bardly news to those ot you whO've attended your local M.C.'s thing recently. Brown and company have been busy filming various events for the past few months. "Any Sunday" - as the film is tentatively called - will attempt to cinematically portray the current motorcycle scene. From speedway to .motocr oss to trials to enduro, Brown hopes to chronicle the ins and outs, ups and downs, ot the two wheeled world. And thos e of you familiar with Brown's initial, big time, surfing endeavor, "The Endless Summer", realize that he's the man to do it. But don't go running off to your neighborhood Bijou. Nearly 150,000 feet about 70 hours- have already been shot, and, with Iuck, by January enough footage will have bee n completed to begln- that' s right, BEGIN - to put the whole thing together . And, with some more Iuck, it will be dis tributed In the summer of 1971. But Brown's In no hurry. Maybe in the summer of 1972, he says rather casually. The thing Is, he says, it has to be just right. Accur at e. Legitimate. An honest picture about motorcycUng. Telling It Like It Is , If 'y ou' ll pardon a cliche, And, again, you graduates of surfdom and " The Endless Summer" know that Bruce Brown will undoubtedly do exactly that. " I just hope that it will do the sport good and give It the recognition that it deserves," Brown said last week. " I realiZe that a lot of other people -have said this, but my main concern is showing what motorcycling is really llke. I mean it. Of course I hope it makes money, but that's really secondary." And you beUeve him: Absolutely. So far, his four man crew has shot, among other things, the Internationally famous Daytona 200 and The Mint (Las Vegas ) 400. And, this past weekend, they were on location at the not-so-Internationally-famous Bees M.C. HillcUmb In Salt Lake City, Utah. All sides of the picture. A sizeable portion of the film will revolve around California r ldlng ace, Malcolm Smith. Brown feels that Smith epitomizes the nature of the sport: An easy going t lder , making his Uving at a bike shop, who, on any given Sunday, can enter anyone of a variety of events, and . give the best of competition hell. Addltionally; Brown is considering shooting a segment of film devoted to one of the nation's professional circuit riders. . The Dana Point film maker goes to great lengths In avoiding the " Hollywoodtype" image. He's convinced this would effect the integrity of the pr oduction. No actors, no payola, no props. Just the way it happe ns. Bruce Brown began makin g 8mm films as a young surfer, charging 25 ~ admission at local surf shops . The proceeds, as you might suspect, wer e inves ted In more fi lm. Finally, a surf shop owner , Dale Velsey, financed a trip to Hawaii, and Brown was on his protessional way. Since then, he' S had offers to film Hollywood things like " Godzllla And The Naked Surfboard Chick". Buthe'salways turned a deaf ear, even though they wer e financially appealing. _ Waiting, you'd Uke to think, to start production on " Any Sunday" • lii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil NEW HAN DLEBAR.MOUNTS AVAILABLE AT W EBCO DEALERS A pair of extra-strong cast aluminum alloy handlebar mounts have been pro- duced by Webco Inc. ot Venice, CaUfor nIa and are now avaiiable at Independent Webco dealers throughout the United States and Canada. 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