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Todd Huffman, interviewing Bruce Brown for Huffman’s The Motocross Files series, in 2007.
ON ANY SUNDAY HEADED BACK TO THEATERS! Limited nationwide engagements this fall… just what Bruce Brown would have wanted By Mitch Boehm Editor’s Note: Aside from a couple of small anniversary showings over the years, it’s been 50 years since On Any Sunday has been seen in bigscreen movie theaters as it was during 1971. Fortunately, thanks to producer Todd Huffman (The Motocross Files, The John Penton Story, etc.), Bruce Brown Films, Gathr Films and Bayview Entertainment, you’ll be able to see motorcycling’s favorite movie the way OAS creator Bruce Brown intended — on the big screen. And not only that, the movie you’ll see will be better than ever, having undergone a digital remastering process that’ll make the images and scenes cleaner and more colorful than ever. We recently sat down with filmmaker Todd Huffman to get the scoop.
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merican Motorcyclist: You’ve produced a lot of motorcycleand racing-oriented movies and videos over the years. How influential was On Any Sunday to your own career path?
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Todd Huffman: Well, like most of the millions of kids and adults affected by the film when it came out in 1971 — I watched it twice, back-to-back as an 8or 9-year-old at the Empire Theatre in Placerville, California — we were inspired
to ride BMX because motorcycles were out of reach financially and racing was frowned upon for safety reasons. I did get to race motocross a handful of times, but BMX became my “thing,” and I became a professional BMX racer in 1980 and