Glory Years

Starring:George Dzundza, Archie Hahn, Tim Thomerson, Tawny Kitaen, Michael Fairman, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Sandy Simpson, Beau Starr, Joey Bishop, Al Bernstein, Joyce Brothers, Larry Holmes, Engelbert Humperdinck (II), Avery Schreiber, Mamie Van Doren, Tony Longo, Donna Pescow, Franklyn Ajaye, Gary Bisig, Donna Denton
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Studio: Live / Artisan
Product Type: DVD

ABC Wide World of Sports: 40 Years of Glory

Average customer rating:

Good idea, but too short
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ABC Wide World of Sports: 40 Years of Glory
Starring: ABC Wide World of Sports-40 Years of Glory
Manufacturer: Espn
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ASIN: B000MM0LDM
Release Date: 2007-04-03

Description

ABC Wide World of Sports: 40 Years of Glory - (Sports) Relive over 40 years of sports' pinnacles and perils pulled from the classic ABC shows.

Customer Reviews:

Good idea, but too short.......2007-06-15

I love the idea of a DVD (or several) showing old footage of sports events. Wide World of Sports was one of those defining television sports shows of the 1960s and 70s. Why not a 4-hour retrospective, with the opportunity to really show some in-depth highlights? This DVD was fascinating, but with only 1 hour of material it barely had a chance to give us a flavor of the original show.

Jim McKay's Legacy.......2007-05-24

Back cover reads, "From Lance Armstrong's first amazing Tour de France win to Nadia Commaneci's dramatic Olympic feats, and Evel Knievel's death-defying motorcycle jumps, rediscover the unforgettable legacy of Wide World of Sports". Includes bonus update on Vinko Bogataj, Muhammad Ali, and Jim McKay.

Average customer rating:

Fun, Wacky and close to my life LOL!!

Glory Years
Starring: Donna Denton , George Dzundza , Michael Fairman , Archie Hahn III , and Tawny Kitaen
Director: Arthur A. Seidelman
Manufacturer: Tango Entertainment
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ASIN: B000FKP45Q
Release Date: 2006-05-04

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Fun, Wacky and close to my life LOL!!.......2007-05-13

Fun, Wacky and close to my life LOL!!
This is a good movie for those who have Bad luck!!
I will help you forget that last trip to the casino.
Great shots of old vegas style casino gaming.

This movie has been one of my fav's for years.
Thanks Amazon for having an oldie but goody!!

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Well Done and Well Worth Buying
AMAZING STUFF
Well worth the money!!!!

100 Years of Flight: 17 Days of Glory
Director: Allen Farst
Manufacturer: Niche Records
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00014X8JU
Release Date: 2003-12-30

Description

"100 YEARS OF FLIGHT," DVD IN CELEBRATION OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS Ohio-based filmmaker Allen Farst, director/executive producer of Niche Productions (Dayton, Ohio), recently shot a 130-minute DVD called "100 Years of Flight: 17 Days of Glory," the DVD is replete with never-before-seen footage documenting the events that shaped a community's celebration of the aviation groundwork laid by native sons, Orville and Wilbur Wright.

Through sheer initiative, Farst was able to secure sole access to document the 17-day festival held in Dayton last summer, in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the Wrights' 1903 maiden flight at Kitty Hawk. The DVD features exclusive footage, from the Opening Ceremonies with President Bush to National Aviation Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies hosted by Harrison Ford, all of which were brought to a stunning finale at the 26th Annual Vectren® Dayton Airshow. Additional footage includes interviews with politicians, former astronauts and such pilot/celebrities as John Travolta. The DVD also takes a first-ever look inside the Wright Mansion at Hawthorn Hill, a tour hosted by Wright granddaughter Amanda Wright Lane.

Customer Reviews:

Well Done and Well Worth Buying.......2003-12-17

Enjoy exclusive footage of Opening Ceremonies,The Great
Blimp Meet, the Balloon Celebration, and theNational Aviation Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies hosted by Harrison Ford, all of which were brought to a stunning finale at the 26th Annual
Dayton Airshow starring all three North American Jet Performance Teams; the US Air Force Thunderbirds, the US Navy Blue Angels and the Canadian Snowbirds. Director Allen Farst gets up close and personal with politicians, former astronauts and celebrities as they reflect upon the importance of these festivities and discuss what aviation has meant to our history and what it
means to our future. Also enjoy exclusive visits to today's leading general aviation manufacturers who share the same passion for flight as theWright Brothers did 100Years ago.

AMAZING STUFF.......2003-12-11

I watched all the probelms Iinventing Flight had trying to pull off the celebration, however, this DVD hits all the high's here in Dayton OH. If you want up close, this is it! A good family gift.

Well worth the money!!!!.......2003-12-05

Director Allen Farst gets up close and personal with politicians, former astronauts and celebrities as they
reflect upon the importance of these festivities and discuss what aviation has meant to our history and what it
means to our future. Also enjoy exclusive visits to today's leading general aviation manufacturers who share the same passion for flight as theWright Brothers did 100 Years ago.
This DVD takes you to ALL of the events for under $20! Well worth the money!!!!

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Eminem The Glory Years DVD

Eminem - The Glory Years
Starring: Eminem
Manufacturer: Mvd Visual
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With his popularity consistently growing on what seems like a weekly basis, to say 'there's no stopping Eminem' could be considered this season's most tepid understatement. On Eminem: The Glory Years - part documentary, part critical review, all fascinating insight - the truth is revealed by the likes of Eminem's first manager, esteemed writers from Rolling Stone, NME, Uncut and Spin, family members and close friends and many more who know, work with, love or despise him. Previously unseen photographs from private collections and the rarest film footage ever released complete a film that will appeal to all those with an interest, from the Eminem mega fan to the casual observer.

Customer Reviews:

Eminem The Glory Years DVD.......2006-01-01

I got this dvd for christmas i only watched it a few times it's alright but i thought it would have a whole biograhy on Emmy. It really is only about the music. I wouldn't recommend buying it.

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For collectors only.

NASA - 25 Years of Glory Vol. 2
Starring: Nasa-25 Years
Manufacturer: Madacy Records
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ASIN: 6304870388
Release Date: 1997-12-09

Customer Reviews:

For collectors only........2000-09-02

This presentation contains four vintage NASA films: The Flight of Apollo 11 - Eagle Has Landed, Apollo 13 - Houston We've Got A Problem, Apollo 15 - In The Mountains of the Moon and Apollo 16 - `Nothing So Hidden...'

There is nothing remarkable to be found here. If you're interested in NASA films these four are good additions, at least from an historical point of view. The film quality is understandably fair to poor; nobody was concerned with Hollywood production values. And the content is rather boring. Even the film about the near-tragedy of Apollo 13 was downplayed in typical NASA propaganda style.

Madacy Entertainment has once again proven their incompetence with this disk. They gave us bios of four astronauts, three of whom never flew an Apollo mission. A look at the Gemini capsule, and summaries of three Gemini missions not only has nothing to do with the subject matter of the disk, the print is so small that it is almost unreadable. There is a five-question trivia game that is a joke. And there is a short film clip of a JFK speech at Houston, TX. (This is not the famous, "I believe that this nation should commit itself..." speech given to congress.) As we are a little more than four minutes into the clip it abruptly ends, looking for all the world as if someone pushed the pause button on their VCR.

Finally, the scene index gives you only eight choices for almost two hours' worth of program, none of these choices gets you to the beginning of any of the four films. And the disk itself would not give me any time or chapter information that would normally be found on a professionally produced DVD.

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Worthwhile for its technical look at the Challenger disaster.......2003-10-10

You could hardly find a stranger juxtaposition between two NASA films than what you will find here on this NASA volume 5 release. Our look at NASA's lowest of times is followed by a self-congratulatory video covering the first 25 years of the space agency's existence. Neither of these features is very impressive visually, and they are both far from exciting, but the look at the Challenger disaster makes this a fascinating, worthwhile DVD to own. Don't expect any kind of retrospective of or memorial to the Challenger, however, for the content you will find here is rather clinical and dry. The feature opens with some kind of NASA video feed coverage of the seven astronauts getting suited up and crawling inside the spacecraft; it feels quite macabre to watch what you know are the final moments of these people's lives, but it does provide a good background on the seven heroes who were fated to die that day of January 28, 1986. The bulk of the footage, though, consists of a tape prepared by the Analysis Task Force whose job it was to find out what happened and why. It is a rather technical presentation, but it provides some amazing looks at the video footage taken from a number of cameras on the ground and in the air, pointing out tell-tale signs of the disaster in the making. While it does provide a good assessment of the cause of the disaster, it really doesn't take things far enough to engage in a blame-game type of presentation, nor does it offer any speculation as to the probability that the astronauts lived long enough to plunge violently into the ocean.

Then you have the story of NASA's first 25 years, a film I found drab and sometimes pretty boring. The best part has to do with the early work by NASA and its original astronauts in programs largely forgotten today; while Mercury and Gemini might ring a few bells today, there were really an incredible number of launches and missions that prepared the way for the moon landing in 1969. The video gives a good rundown of NASA's 1970s projects, as well, before concluding with a look at the first six successful missions of the space shuttle. The shuttle video did reawaken some emotions in me. I dreamed of working for NASA as a kid, and the launch and landing of the Columbia on that first mission is something I will never forget. Having just looked at the space vehicles used up until that time, the viewer can get some sense of just how amazing and exciting the shuttle was in its early life. The only complaints I have about this 25th anniversary NASA video are: 1) it slightly exaggerates NASA's importance in the creation of many non-space-related products and ideas and 2) it glances over the failures that were an integral part of NASA's history. The unfortunate and, given its cause, rather stupid fire that killed three astronauts on the launch pad in 1967 is at least mentioned, but there is no direct comment made about Apollo 13. I find this doubly strange because the Apollo 13 mission saw disaster transformed by NASA into its finest hour. Finally, I was gratified to see mention made of the animals that were launched on test flights long before men climbed atop any fireballs. Many animals, especially monkeys, were sent up never to return alive, and the story of these first true astronauts is a story that needs to be told.

When it comes down to brass tacks, though, I would only recommend this item to those with a keen interest in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. The NASA 25th anniversary video is surprisingly uninteresting as a whole and shamefully glosses over the trials that stand as an integral part of that history. The extra features on the DVD are also rather meaningless, consisting only of four astronaut biographies, a set of 5 trivia questions, a short description of the shuttle and three of its early missions, and a completely inexplicable film reel of the ludicrously fake spaceships featured in Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Excellent video documentation of the disaster.......1999-04-28

NASA had some guts to release this. The first sequence is the NASA TV video feed from the time the crew leaves the preperation facility until the last debris hit the water. They show the crew boarding the Shuttle and give brief bios of each crewmember.

After that, they then analyis the flight in painstaking detail, showing mulitple ultra-slowmotion views of the flight from liftoff to water impact of the debris. They show the breakup of the vehicle in such detail that it is painful to watch.

They then use computer graphics to show the problem with the o-rings and restate the conclusions of the Presidential investigating committee. (They do not show any of the proceedings of that investigation.)

After about an hour on the accident, they provide some stock footage of the history of NASA, and (in really bad taste IMHO) scenes from "Plan 9 From Outer Space", and some other stuff I didn't sit through.

This disk does not go behind the scenes, it shows the flight, and then explains in detail what happened and why. It shows why the decision to launch was fatal, but it doesn't explain why NASA made such a bad launch decision.

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gabriel@bacavalley.com.......2004-02-04

As with ALL of Madacy's productions, I found this to be, as one reviewer here said I might, BORING. I lived through the history of NASA presented in the DVD, and was expecting much more than a poor patchwork of stock footage, loosely connected by tepid narration.

From the NASA propaganda archives.......2000-09-02

"You and your fellow astronauts follow the test program closely," the narrator drones on as the first of four NASA films is played out. "Freedom 7" starts us down a long, and often tedious journey through NASA history with America's first man in space, Alan B. Shepard. "The Voyage of Friendship 7" follows chronicling John Glenn's orbital flight. These two films are almost carbon copies of one another, except that in the second the narrator and the background music have loosened up, slightly. Mercifully, these two elements are silenced during the final countdown and first couple of minutes of each flight. With Shepard's suborbital flight I got the feeling that I was following him from liftoff almost to splashdown, although the actual trip lasted three times as long.

The third film, "The Four Days of Gemini 4," gives us a glimpse of America's first spacewalk. The narrator is different, the monotone is not. The few minutes of Edward White's adventure are mundane by today's standards, but they were nothing less than Star Wars at the time. I found the few seconds of private reentry conversation between White and James McDivitt somewhat interesting. "Set back and relax. You ain't gonna do much about it from here out." White returns to his "public" voice when he knows the radio blackout has ended.

The last film begins with what seems to be an aborted launch, but is actually a practice. "Gemini VIII, this is Houston Flight" focuses on ground support and recovery and almost neglects the mission itself. It's one of the few times where mission control voices are actually in sync with the person on film.

These are vintage NASA films and the video quality must be judged accordingly. Also, this being propaganda, nothing bad ever happened during that time, so the fact that the Gemini VIII docking nearly ended in tragedy is downplayed significantly. Also, it is noted that Glenn returned with his retro pack attached, but no mention is made that the nation waited and prayed because it was not known whether or not he would burn up on reentry.

Madacy Entertainment's "extras" are pathetic. There are four astronaut bios, two of which have nothing to do with this video. There are three mission summaries and one page on the Mercury capsule. All of this is in print too small to be comfortably read. The film clip stated on the jacket to be George Melie's [sic] film "Voyage de la Lune" is actually 30 seconds each from William Cameron Menzies' "Things to Come" (1936) and Georges Melies' 1903 silent "Trip to the Moon." Both of these titles are noted IN the video, but Madacy obviously never watched it. And there are five "challenging" trivia questions (and answers if you get them correct.) The challenge here is to figure out why the DVD shuts down altogether while in the "game."

Especially worthless is the scene index. Of the eight choices not one leads to the beginning of a film. (One can be accessed by keying the correct number on your remote. This exception is obviously accidental.) This is one of the more useful features of DVDs but Madacy clearly hasn't a clue.

These films are as interesting as a history lesson. Which is to say that if you enjoy history of this kind you might like this disk. Otherwise, forget it.

DON'T JUDGE THIS HORRIBLE VIDEO BY ITS COVER!.......2000-02-05

Like the other films released by this company, I bought this DVD and was apalled to learn that this is simply re-packaged OLD NASA FILM with a misleading new cover. These 1960's-70's-era films are garbage, with bad picture, bad sound, and narrators so terrible that you expect to hear a projector start skipping, just like when you were a kid in elementary school. Shame on this company. There are many excellent space videos out there--and this IS NOT ONE OF THEM.

Classic for the 'Space Program' fanatic -only!.......1999-10-18

This DVD is a collection of NASA's orginal 'propoganda' films on the US manned space program. These are the films you may have seen during a science class in 1963-6 (presumably when your science teacher needed a break). A retrospective view from 1999 makes these films look low-tech and corny, however for those who lived through these times they are a reminder of the very different world view ('Free World') then about. Anybody with a serious interest of fondness of the early space age will value this DVD as a collector. For the rest of you, this DVD may be quite boring! I, however, am ordering the remainder of the set of five.

Average customer rating:

Almost worth the cost, if you've got a discount...

NASA - 25 Years of Glory Vol. 4
Starring: Nasa-25 Years
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ASIN: 6304870485
Release Date: 1997-12-09

Customer Reviews:

Almost worth the cost, if you've got a discount..........2000-09-02

This collection of four NASA films marks the beginning in this series of something watchable. After watching the previous volumes in this set it's obvious that NASA has come a long way in improving the quality of a lot of the space footage. The background music also reflects a less mundane approach.

"Opening New Frontiers," "We Deliver," "Launch and Retrieval of Satellites" and "Satellite Repairs" show the early Space Shuttle program, but neglect the R & D phase which really should be included in the series. The insistence on using only NASA films leaves a hole here. Sure, R & D is not too compelling, but none of this material is gonna keep you glued to your set. In spite of that there is a lot of decent material here. Shuttle launches, satellite deployments and rescues, interior shots, all are much better than NASA's earlier years.

Did you know that "by the mid-80s" we should be enjoying two shuttle launches per month? This is according to the first film, which focuses on the first four launches. It seems we're a bit behind schedule.

Madacy has included "extras" which should have been left behind. The bios of two of the four astronauts, as well as the page on Skylab and the summaries of the three Skylab missions belong on Volume 3 which covers Skylab. This disk is devoted to the shuttle, folks! It doesn't matter much, because the print is too small to read unless you're good friends with your set. The "challenging" trivia game is not worth the time to find your way back to the main menu.

The film clip, laughingly called, "A Montage of Soviet Mission Clips" has never been seen by the person who invented its title. It is actually a bit more than a minute showing an Apollo launch and first stage separation. The obviously non-Soviet radio exchange mentions "Apollo 11." While I realize that much of this material is boring, I would have hoped that someone at Madacy would have stayed awake long enough to get their facts straight. Also, someone was asleep at the switch in the edit room, because there is a moment at the end showing the narrator frozen as if the pause button on their VCR was pushed just a bit too late. But, regardless of the title, this clip has nothing to do with the subject matter on the disk. It should have been included with Volume 3 instead.

As with other Madacy releases, the scene access is unusable. Eight selections and not one leads to the beginning of a film, and all but two drop you off in the middle of a sentence. There is no chapter and time information available on screen, as should be with a properly produced disk. And speaking of time, the 120 minutes indicated on the jacket must have been approximated using a sundial. It's almost a half-hour short.

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Paths of Glory-100 Years of Pitt Football

For 100 years the University of Pittsburgh has forged a tradition of gridiron excellence. This program spans from the earliest days of the Pitt football program through 9 national championships. - Get to know some of Pitt's legendary coaches like "Pop" Warner, Doctor "Jock" Sutherland and Jackie Sherrill and more. Re - live the Golden years of the "Golden Panthers". See Pitt's memorable victory over Fordham at Pitt Stadium, the legendary rivalry between Pitt vs. Penn State, and be there as Marshall Goldberg leads Pitt to the Rose Bowl in the late `30s. Go back to 1976 when "Touchdown" Tony Dorsett hits the trifecta becoming the NCAA's all - time leading rusher, winning the coveted Heisman Trophy and leading the Panthers to a National Championship with a win in the Sugar Bowl. See Lombardi Award winner, Hugh Green, the countries best defensive lineman in 1980. Watch all - time Pitt great and NFL Hall - of - Famer Danny Marino win MVP of the Sugar Bowl in the early 80's.

Re-live all of these great football memories and more in this exciting program.

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