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Rare Sportsfilms has been exhibiting its video productions at the National Sports Collectors Convention for more than a quarter of a century! Find us at booth #1746 of the Convention, July 30 thru Aug. 3rd. at the I-X Center just south of Cleveland, Ohio. Click this link to get more info about the show, including show hours, professional athletes who will be signing autographs, etc.
Rare Sportsfilms president Doak Ewing says, "Any sports fan who appreciates the history of sports or collects artifacts related to the history of sports should not miss attending "The National" and seeing the greatest assemblage of sports memorabilia in the world under one roof - almost all of it for sale! In addition to athletes signing autographs, you'll find old baseball cards (one of MY favorite collectibles), vintage photos, old magazines, books, ticket stubs, game equipment, framed memorabilia, old game-worn uniforms, team yearbooks and more! I'm looking forward to displaying our DVDs and seeing old friends and new collectors alike at booth 1746 all week! At this show you will meet the most knowledgeable dealers and sports collectors in the country!
SEE YOU IN CLEVELAND - next week!
-Buy three or more DVDs when you visit our booth (# 1746) and receive a special show discount!
Visit Rare Sportsfilms on the web to see a full listing of our collection of baseball, football, basketball, golf and auto racing DVDs!
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Visit Rare Sportsfilms on the web to see a full listing of our collection of baseball, football, basketball, golf and auto racing DVDs!
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We are always buying!
Rare Sportsfilms is constantly improving the quantity and quality of its collection of original 16-mm sports films. If you have films you would consider selling, click here for a list of what we are always looking to purchase.
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Call us at 630-527-8890 to order by credit card. We accept MasterCard and Visa.
To order by mail, send your check or money order payable to Rare Sportsfilms, Inc. to:
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© Rare Sportsfilms, Inc., 2014
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Dear Rare Sportsfilms Subscriber,
With this newsletter we look forward to once again exhibiting at the 35th annual National Sports Collector's Convention, held this year at the I-X Center just south of Cleveland. I'll be there at the Rare Sportsfilms booth #1746, so stop by to say hello and experience first hand the superior quality of our vintage sports DVDs. We enjoy making new acquaintances and welcoming old friends. Check out the details below about the latest additions to our baseball and football DVD collection!
Thanks for your business and we hope to see you in Cleveland next week!
Doak Ewing
President
Rare Sportsfilms, Inc.
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This long-lost L.A. Dodger baseball TV documentary with Mike Wallace tells of how Willie Davis was "discovered" by Dodger scout Kenny Myers and how Willie became the hottest prospect to hit Dodger spring training by 1961. Most of the film shows Dodger spring training at Vero Beach as Willie strives to make the team for '61 and join other famous stars shown throughout - Sandy Koufax, Duke Snider, Don Drysdale, Wally Moon, Gil Hodges, Frank Howard, Johnny Podres, John Roseboro and others! A fascinating look at Davis and the Dodgers of half a century ago!
Running time: 53 Minutes, B & W
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Cubs vs Cardinals
The last three innings of the original Saturday afternoon July 29 NBC TV "Game of the Week", Billy Hands vs Rick Wise, with play-by-play broadcasters Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek. Brock, Torre and Simmons vs Williams, Pepitone and Santo, and new Cubs skipper Whitey Lockman's Wrigley Field managerial debut! This is the oldest TV broadcast of any Cubs-Cardinals game in existence!
Running time: 42 Minutes, Kinescope
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"Time for Football"
(Week 4 - games of October 21, 1956) - Narrated by Jim Leaming, " Time For Football" covers all six NFL games from Week 4. Then, the " Highlights of the Year" film shows every team's best game of the '56 season!
Running time: 52 minutes, B & W
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1961 & 1962
Los Angeles Rams
Seasons Highlights
1961 and 1962 · Los Angeles Rams Highlights, both on one DVD! Runners Ollie Matson, Jon Arnett and Dick Bass are stars on the 1961 team. Film is narrated by Bob Kelley and presented by Falstaff Beer. The 1962 season was the worst on record for the Rams, however rookies Roman Gabriel and Merlin Olsen would lead the club in better seasons ahead. Presented by A.C. Delco, the '62 film is narrated by Tom Harmon. Bratkowski, Red Phillips, Lamar Lundy, Deacon Jones, Les Richter, Ed Meador and many more!
Running time: 1 Hour, 4 Minutes, B & W
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I never know who might be calling ...
by Doak Ewing
 The voice on the other end of the line said that as a 19-year-old college kid, he was chosen by Howard Cosell of ABC as the assistant cameraman for the filming of the TV documentary "Run To Daylight" with Vince Lombardi! One of the
perks of my business is getting at least one phone call from a very interesting person, athlete or ex-athlete almost every month. Since I have always been a fan of Vince Lombardi, I was intrigued! The caller introduced himself as Ron Vidor and explained that he had never seen the finished film! I told him I had restored the original 1964 film in 2003 and that it's been available only from Rare Sportsfilms. I eagerly asked Ron how he met Cosell and what it was like being at Packer Training Camp, etc., and so he told me his story.
Ron said, "My Dad was a top commercial cinematographer and director in New York City. After I graduated high school, Dad told me I was going to have to pay my own way through college at USC. (He wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer.) Dad said, 'So you can earn some money, I'm going to have my best people train you to be an 'A-list' movie cameraman.' So for the summer, he flew me to New York to train under the top movie cameramen in the business. After intense training for several weeks, I then started getting some work around New York as an assistant cameraman."
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Early 1960's: Young Ron Vidor with Gordon Willis, who later was Director of Photography for The Godfather trilogy, as well as many of Woody Allen's films.
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"The following summer I came back to New York to do more camera work. Howard Cosell was planning to do the Lombardi documentary and had heard I was a 'hot-shot' young cameraman. He asked me to be his assistant cameraman and go with him to St. Norbert's in Wisconsin with the crew for two weeks to film Lombardi and the Packers at training camp."
I asked Ron what he remembered about working with the Packers and Lombardi. "That was a long time ago," he said. "I played high school football, but did not really know anything about the NFL, so I was in awe of pro football once I got there. We shot film of the newly-drafted rookies, as well as the veteran players, but Howard seemed most interested in Paul Hornung and Bart Starr - we shot a lot of film on them, as at the time, they were some of the biggest stars in the NFL. We also shot inside the locker room, on the practice field, in team meetings, everywhere. The players understood what we were there for and treated us all as "part of the family". Cosell and Lombardi were the biggest personalities in camp. Howard carried a big stick and pretty much directed the filming. Lombardi seemed to run a very tight ship and was very cordial. Everyone - the players and us - had a lot of respect for him. By the way, all players had to be in their rooms by 10 o'clock curfew - so, young college kid that I was, I remember often going out with several of the players girlfriends, now starved for attention at those late hours!"
Ron acknowledged his true calling after that summer at St. Norbert's, going on to become one of Hollywood's top cinematographers. Currently, he's often back and forth between his home in Los Angeles and an assignment elsewhere in America. His credits range from filming JAWS, Rocky III, Romancing The Stone, Stand By Me, and ER.
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