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| Dear Rare Sportsfilms Subscriber, We hope your holidays were filled with all the joys of the season. As a new year begins, we're excited to start it off by sharing details of our three new DVD offerings, a schedule of our 2015 trade show plans (where we hope you'll come and visit with us), and a story about the largest film collection acquisition in our company's history. All the best to you and those you hold dear for a healthy, happy, prosperous 2015 ahead! Doak Ewing President Rare Sportsfilms, Inc. |
This rare COLOR film of the title game has never been available from any source until now! In this rematch of participants from the two previous championship games, 1952 and 1953, the Browns and their fans get gleeful revenge for their two previous losses! Otto Graham, who announced beforehand that this would be his final game, is star of the game, scoring three TD's! Also included are the 1954 Detroit Lions Highlights narrated by Van Patrick and Jim Leaming and the 1954 Cleveland Browns Highlights narrated by Ken Coleman! Watch Bobby Layne, Doak Walker, Joe Schmidt, Leon Hart, Jug Girard, Jack Christiansen, Dorn Dibble and Lew Carpenter of the Lions battle it out with Lou Groza, Dante Lavelli, Dub Jones, Ray Renfro, Curley Morrison, Horace Gillom, Chuck Noll, Abe Gibron, Frank Gatski and Lennie Ford of the Browns!
Running time: 1 hour, 36 minutes
B & W / COLOR
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Highlights of over 80 games beginning in 1937, all on one DVD! More than 35 schools are included, such as Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan, Army, Navy, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Minnesota, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Southern Cal, Fordham, Oklahoma, Duke, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Boston College and more! Watch Frank Sinkwich, Otto Graham, Tom Harmon, Lou Zontini, Les Horvath, Marshall Goldberg, Sid Luckman, Glenn Davis, etc! Shown is the memorable 1940 Cornell-Dartmouth game and film that shows the referee allowing Cornell the infamous "5th Down" with mere seconds left, which gave Cornell a 24-hour 7-3 "come from behind victory"!
Running time: 1 Hour, 49 Minutes, B & W.
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and Boston Celtics Highlights
A must for Boston Celtics fans and fans of early 1960's NBA action - includes four films and some of the oldest NBA COLOR footage ever seen on DVD: 1964 NBA All-Star Game at Boston Garden (Oscar Robertson is game MVP) COLOR! 1964 NBA Highlights, - B&W, More All-Star Game and the stars on each team in the league. "Six Straight", - B&W, Kinescope of Game 5, NBA Finals at Boston, Celtics vs Warriors, narrated by Johnny Most. "Red Auerbach", - B&W, Feature on the famed Celtics coach and interview with Red.
Running time: 1 Hour, 23 Minutes,
Color and B & W.
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| RARE SPORTSFILMS BUYS MORE FILMS! "I'm always interested in buying MORE vintage 16mm films on sports," says Doak Ewing, 66-year-old owner of Rare Sportsfilms, Inc., a business he started back in 1986. "Often I even buy films that I already own in an effort to get the very best copy of each title I can. They don't make 16mm films anymore, so I figure it best to buy them whenever I can if they are in good shape."
Recently, Ewing had a chance to put his money where his mouth is. Doak explains, "Years ago I came in contact with a film collector near Boston who sold me many NFL films over the next decade or so. Upon receipt, I was always impressed with the quality of his films and also intrigued when he told me he had a 'garage full' of more NFL films that he might someday sell in one big lot. I kept in touch with him periodically, calling him every couple of years to remind him I was still interested in buying them if he ever decided to sell.
Then one day last October the phone rang. 'Hi Doak - it's Jim Duffy from Natick, Massachusetts. Are you still interested in buying ALL my films?' I told Jim I was still interested in buying all of his films on sports. We agreed on a set price per reel and I made arrangements to drive my pickup truck to Boston to make my biggest purchase in the history of Rare Sportsfilms! My brother-in-law Geno McNeill, a champion weight-lifter and body builder, agreed to share the driving and help with the loading, etc. The morning of the second day of our trip we arrived at Jim's house and I got to meet him for the first time after all those years of dealing through the mail! I paid Jim cash on the spot and all together we purchased and loaded up over 275 reels of 16mm film!
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| CA$H FOR FILM$! Doak Ewing seals the deal with Jim Duffy. |
After driving back to Chicago, I had an interesting time looking over the purchase. There were about 25 reels of Telesports Digest, along with around 250 reels of NFL, all from before 1970 with some duplicates. We are already upgrading our collection and selling some to other collectors. Others will be used to create more NFL DVDs for Rare Sportsfilms customers! It was a memorable trip during a pretty time of year with the fall foliage turning color in the Eastern US! Thanks to Jim Duffy and my brother-in-law Geno, a large batch of old NFL films now has a new home at Rare Sportsfilms, Inc.!" Doak asks, "Anybody else have any SPORTS films to sell??" |
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