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What you're looking at here is more than likely the oldest exhisting surf footage in the world. In 1906, cameraman Robert Bonine visited Hawaii at the behest of Thomas Edison to film a series of "actualities" -- mini-documentaries -- of life in the Polynesian territory. Bonine traveled to the islands at the invitation of the territory’s Promotion Committee, according to newspaper reports at the time. He stayed in Hawaii for nearly three months documenting a variety of things, including surfing a