Part of The Spirit of America series, this short homage to physical activity "breathes life into televised sports, showing regular folks doing what they love: skiing, ice and fly fishing, bull riding, women's college basketball, and small-town, 8-man football." Participants are interviewed, players are filmed, and--yes--poetry is read. Though this video is professionally done, I truly cannot imagine anyone in any library anywhere asking for material with this particular angle. An hour-long video which explains how to fly fish might be needed in some collections, but a half-hour video that contains a 5-minute section showing a woman fly fishing while telling us why she likes it, for 100 bucks no less? Not a necessary purchase. Aud: J, H, P. (K. Glaser)
Sports: The Real Thing
(1996) 27 min. $99.99. Chip Taylor Communications. PPR. Color cover. Vol. 12, Issue 5
Sports: The Real Thing
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