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What is Skaterdater? An app for likeminded rollerblading enthusiasts to find love? An obscure German word that was actually a savage insult about the Habsburg Dynasty? No, Skaterdater is actually the first film ever made about skateboarding, from a time before skateboarders even started wearing shoes! Seriously!

Skaterdater is an honest-to-goodness “film” film, too: it won the 1966 Palm d’Or for Best Short Film at Cannes, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Raising the important film history question: are there more close-ups of bare feet in this Oscar-nominated film, or the Oscar-nominated films of Quentin Tarantino?

The short follows a group of boys cruising the streets of Southern California on tiny wooden skateboards, wearing matching windbreakers, grooving to surf rock, irritating the Old Folks, and eventually becoming distracted by The Ladies. Inevitably, this leads to a duel between two of the boys, and it’ll be a miracle if they come out of it with all their toes intact.

Breaker breaker, we’ve got a Skaterdater on the elevator (this doesn’t mean anything, it’s just kind of fun to say out loud). Get ready to drop in and shred with Mike, Kevin, and Bill for the clean-cut, matching windbreaker style of skateboarding found in Skaterdater!

Written by Bill Corbett, Conor Lastowka, Jason Miller, and Zachary Shatzer

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[–] stinerman@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Tired: Rollergator
Wired: Skaterdater

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 3 points 9 months ago

Oh man, I hope Meandering Guitar Guy lands on his feet!