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  Rugby Women

  Chicago, Eleanor Boyer

  By 1972, rugby football as an organized sport for women, was played at three universities in the U.S., including the University of Illinois. In 1977 the Lake Shore Ale-wives became the second women’s rugby team in Chicago. This video contains Interviews with the players, footage from practice sessions and scenes of their first home game. The women reflect on the problems they must overcome in playing a traditionally male sport and the benefits they derive from it. SILVER PLAQUE, Chicago International Film Festival, 1978

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  [TVTV Goes to the Super Bowl: selects from Wussler and Super Night at the Super Bowl]

  American Way, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Sports, Tom Weinberg, TVTV

  Selects for the behind-the-scenes documentary about the events and personalities surrounding Super Bowl X in Miami between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys. Features intimate portraits of the players and the CBS personnel who broadcast the events of Super Bowl week. Produced with multiple lightweight video cameras in TVTV style, it is both informative and revealing of the extremes surrounding football culture and hype. This video contains footage from a production meeting led by CBS TV Executive Bob Wussler and the taping of “Super Night at the Super Bowl,” a CBS television special.

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  [TVTV Goes to the Super Bowl raw: Super Night at the Super Bowl]

  American Way, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Sports, Tom Weinberg, TVTV

  Raw footage of the behind-the-scenes documentary about the events and personalities surrounding Super Bowl X in Miami between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys. Features intimate portraits of the players and the CBS personnel who broadcast the events of Super Bowl week. Produced with multiple lightweight video cameras in TVTV style, it is both informative and revealing of the extremes surrounding football culture and hype. This video contains footage from a party/banquet thrown by CBS and the taping of “Super Night at the Super Bowl,” a CBS television special.

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  [TVTV Goes to the Super Bowl raw: Bob Wussler]

  American Way, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Sports, Tom Weinberg, TVTV

  Raw footage from the behind-the-scenes documentary about the events and personalities surrounding Super Bowl X in Miami between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys. Features intimate portraits of the players and the CBS personnel who broadcast the events of Super Bowl week. Produced with multiple lightweight video cameras in TVTV style, it is both informative and revealing of the extremes surrounding football culture and hype. This tape features an interview with CBS TV Executive Bob Wussler.

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  Max Patkin #5

  Once A Star, Sports

  00:00 This is the continuation of an interview with Max Patkin, baseball clown. 02:30 Patkin talks about touring with the Harlem Globetrotters. He talks for a little bit about Sweetwater Clifton’s baseball skills. He also did a show at football games, for the Baltimore Colts. 05:30 He has fun doing his work, even if he doesn’t get paid much. 06:21 His minor league baseball career ended when his arm bone got chipped by someone sliding into home plate. He says […]

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  Max Patkin #6

  Once A Star, Sports

  00:00 This is the continuation of an interview with Max Patkin, baseball clown. 00:59 Patkin talks about traveling the country and performing even when he was injured. He also had mental problems because of the pressure of being funny night after night and because of personal problems. 03:49 Patkin talks about his idols. 04:30 He talks about doing his act with then Vice President George (H.W.) Bush. Bush wrote a letter to Max, and sent him an invitation to the […]

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  Mark The Bird Fidrych #3

  Uncategorized

  Raw interview footage with Mark–the Bird–Fidrych, former pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, for the TNT special Once a Star.

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  Harlem Globetrotters

  Sports

  Miscellaneous footage, including a black and white broadcast of a Harlem Globetrotter’s game, laughter, marching band music, the themes to Batman and the Pink Panther, and brief footage of a White Sox game. Audio cuts out eight and a half minutes in for about forty seconds.