They Call It Pro Football (1966)

Original title

They Call it Pro Football

Directed by

John Hentz

Genre

American football film

Country

United States

Runtime

24 min

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows the early days of professional American football in the 1960s. It uses a visual style that became famous for future football films and TV shows. The film highlights the game's excitement and history.

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What happens

They Call It Pro Football is a 1967 sports documentary film about American football. The first full-length film from NFL Films, its visual style helped to define future presentations of the sport on film and TV. In 2012, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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