{"id":23479,"date":"2012-06-27T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=23479"},"modified":"2014-04-03T15:12:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:12:02","slug":"missing-sports-highlights-come-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=23479","title":{"rendered":"Lost &#038; Rare, Vol. 2: Sports Immortals: Classic Sports Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mff_sportsimm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23480\" title=\"mff_sportsimm\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mff_sportsimm.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>And they\u2019re off!<\/p>\n<p>Fore!<\/p>\n<p>Batter up!<\/p>\n<p>Fans of nostalgia <em>and <\/em>sports should have a field day with <a title=\"Lost &amp; Rare, Vol. 2: Sports Immortals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D60027&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lost &amp; Rare, Vol. 2: Sports Immortals<\/a>, a collection of vintage shorts and featurettes centering on athletic greats from the earlier-to-middle part of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p>The centerpiece of the collection is a 44 min. production made by the American League of Major League Baseball and the Kellogg Company in 1939 to celebrate baseball\u2019s centennial. Entitled \u201cTouching all Bases,\u201d the film shows a bunch of kids playing a pickup game of baseball in a playground who get into a skirmish over a close play. Enter Boston Red Sox shortstop-manager-star Joe Cronin, wearing a suit, who invites the kids to watch a movie and catch a game at Fenway.<\/p>\n<p>This device gave the kids\u2014and the viewers&#8211;the opportunity to take a whirlwind tour of great ballparks of the era (Sportsman\u2019s Park! Yankee Stadium! Shibe Park!), visit the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in its debut year, check out an early night game,\u00a0 get playing tips from stars and actually hear some of the greats speak, such as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb (who doesn\u2019t look or sound anything like Tommy Lee Jones).<\/p>\n<p>The other segments on the program are quite a bit shorter. Sports Immortals presents a zippy overview of the world\u2019s top athletes circa 1939, and pretty much touches all the bases, from football (Knute Rockne talks, Red Grange rushes at Philly\u2019s Franklin Field) to auto racing (Barney Oldfield), tennis (Helen Willis) to horse racing (Man O\u2019 War), and boxing (Jack Dempsey) to swimming \u00a0(Gertrude Ederle). Narration is provided by Ed Thorgersen of \u201cSports Reviews\u201d and Fox Movietone News fame.<\/p>\n<p>1939\u2019s The Brown Bomber focuses on boxing champ Joe Louis outside of the ring. Silent with narration and music, the seven minute short shows the \u201cBrown Bomber\u201d training, sparring, hanging out with other fighters (Jim \u201cCinderella Man\u201d Braddock and Henry Armstrong), weighing in for a match with John Henry Lewis, eating steak and checking out his record collection\u2014his favorite music, we\u2019re told, is swing. No surprise, since Louis is depicted here as one cool cat.<\/p>\n<p>Produced in the 1940s in association with Look Magazine, Kings of Sport uses an argument between poker players over \u201cWho is the greatest sports figure of all-time?\u201d as the launching point for a series of classic film clips from baseball (featuring Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio), tennis (Bill Tilden), football (Tom Harmon, Red Grange), track (Jesse Owens, Greg Rice) and boxing (Joe Lewis, Gene Tunney). Of course, the question is never answered, but Kings of Sport offers several names and images to ponder.<\/p>\n<p>The last entry on the disc is 1936 Olympic Highlights, a roundup of America\u2019s athletic endeavors in the Berlin games sponsored by Hitler and the Nazis. Along with clips of the ill-fated airship Hindenburg, Jesse Owens\u2019 amazing track achievements and highlights of other competition, there is footage of the introduction of the countries, and mention by narrator Jack Martin of the amount of swastikas seen and how \u201cDeutschland Uber Alles\u201d is played loudly during the ceremony overlapping with the Americans arriving at the stadium. We also observe French athletes saluting with their arms. Later, it was debated whether it was done \u201cHitler Nazi-style\u201d or simply as an \u201cOlympic salute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not open for debate, however, is the first-rate quality of the footage on Lost &amp; Rare, Vol. 2: Sports Immortals (the first volume of Lost &amp; Rare is a collection of TV pilots). Except for some minor fading on the Olympics entry, everything on the disc is extra-crisp with good quality and title cards that offer an explanation on the upcoming featurette.<\/p>\n<p>And to that we say hip-hip-hooray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they\u2019re off! Fore! Batter up! 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