Summer Surf Series

The Rehoboth Beach Film Society’s Cinema Art Theater is pleased to present the Summer Surf Series every Thursday (with an encore performance at 2 pm on the following Friday). Doors open at the Cinema Art Theater at 6 pm for the Thursday screenings with food, sprits, contests (with prizes) and the films begin at 7 pm Experience and/or relive the iconic California surfer beach craze of the 1960's. Revisit our favorite Disney Mouseketeers, Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon with cameos from soon to be famous musicians including Stevie Wonder, Hollywood A-Listers Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett, Buster Keaton, Linda Evans and others. The Society will kick-off this SPECIAL EVENT series with the teenage girl who started the Cali surfer craze with the 1959 film, Gidget on Aug 3 & 4! The Series schedule is as follows: Gidget: Aug 3 (7 pm) & Aug 4 (2 pm) Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf and soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggie. Bikini Beach: Aug 10 (7 pm) & Aug 11 (2 pm) A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home. Beach Party: Aug 17 (7 pm) & Aug 18 (2 pm) Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones. Muscle Beach Party: Aug 24 (7 pm) & Aug 25 (2 pm) Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders. Beach Blanket Bingo: Aug 31 (7 pm) & Sept 1 (2 pm) In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei. Admission is $9 for members, $11.50 for general audiences and $5 for students (student tickets available at the theater only). Purchase advance tickets online at rehobothfilm.com or at the Cinema Art Theater box office in Lewes. Venue: Cinema Art Theater. Presenter: Rehoboth Beach Film Society.