| Vision USA: Counterculture Games | ||
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| Tape Master: | 1159 | |
| Catalog #: | 493393 | |
| Clip Number: | 493393-3 | |
| Orginal Film: | ||
| Timecode: | 02:00:42 - 02:04:00 | |
| Location: | San Francisco, CA | |
| Year Shot: | 1979 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/TEENAGERS: Recreation LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, California, San Francisco RECREATION: Games RECREATION: Unusual | |
| Description: | MS/TLSs group of mostly Caucasian youth playing Earth Ball, the only rule to keep a large rubber globe in the air by using your hands & feet. MSs People Knot game, the object of which is to unravel the appendage knot without breaking the chain. Several youth link arms & toss participants along human chain. Playful crowd body surfing in the park. MSs shirtless young Caucasian boy bopping w/ shirtless white male adult; bopping is "a soft war game that releases natural competitiveness & hostility in a natural, fun-filled way" & uses malleable foam swords. CU young white man with shaggy hair, scraggly beard, nasty teeth playing balance game w/ shaggy-haired man w/ moustache, yellow t-shirt, cut-off jeans, dirty Converse sneakers; the later loses, falls comically to ground. MSs group playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, losers running away. MS burly young white man w/ beard lifting young white woman up, hoisting her onto his shoulder like the proverbial caveman. MS young white woman, wearing thick glasses & orange t-shirt w/ personalized "Wendy" on chest, laughing. MSs people racing, running, wrestling, having fun. "Unlike competitive games like football & baseball, which are often dominated by coaches, managers & sponsors, the games are returning fun to its rightful owners, the players. "MS's players (adults & children) playing parachute game, lifting the silk and people running underneath it. . | |
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