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NFL Films is a Mount Laurel, New Jersey-based company devoted to producing commercials, television programs, feature films, and documentaries on the National Football League, as well as other unrelated major events and awards shows. Founded as Blair Motion Pictures by Ed Sabol in 1962, and now run by his son Steven Sabol, it is currently owned by the NFL. Image File history File links NFLFilms. ...
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Film may refer to: photographic film a motion picture in academics, the study of motion pictures as an art form a thin skin or membrane, or any covering or coating, whether transparent or opaque a thin layer of liquid, either on a solid or liquid surface or free-standing Film...
Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ...
The National Football League (NFL) is the largest and most prestigious professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. ...
Ed Sabol is the founder (with his son Steve Sabol, among others) of NFL Films. ...
The 1962 NFL season was the 43th regular season of the National Football League. ...
Steven Steve Sabol is the president, and one of the founding members, of NFL Films. ...
Founding
Founder Ed Sabol was a World War II veteran who worked selling topcoats after returning back to the United States. In his spare time, he often used a motion picture camera, received as a wedding gift, to record his son Steven’s high school football games. Inspired by his own work, Sabol founded a small film company named Blair Motion Pictures, after his daughter. Sabol won the bidding for the rights to film the 1962 NFL championship game for $3,000, double the bid for the 1961 championship game. The film of that game impressed NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who asked the owners of the NFL to agree to buy out Sabol's company. Although the owners rejected Rozelle's proposal in 1964, they agreed a year later and renamed Sabol's company NFL Films. He received $12,000 in seed money from each of the league's 14 owners, and in return would shoot all NFL games and produce a highlight film for each team. [1] [2] Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
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The 1963 National Football League Championship Game was played on December 29, 1963 at Wrigley Field in Chicago. ...
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The 1961 National Football League championship game was the 29th title game. ...
Alvin Ray Pete Rozelle (March 1, 1926–December 6, 1996) was the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from January 1960 to November 1989, when he retired from office. ...
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Style Much has been made of the style that NFL Films produces. All follow certain patterns: they are always shot on film, they have one camera dedicated entirely to slow motion shots, they have microphones on the sidelines and near the field to pick up both the sound of the game as well as the talk on the sidelines, and use narrators with deep and powerful baritone voices, such as Harry Kalas, voice of the Philadelphia Phillies, and the famous John Facenda, the late WCAU-TV anchor who some called "The Voice of God." The style has been called tight on the spiral, a reference to the frequently-used slow-motion shot of the spinning football as it travels from the quarterback's hand to the receiver. NFL Films also dub sound bites of local radio broadcasts over key plays, because radio announcers are typically more enthusiastic about their home team than network television broadcasters. In addition, NFL Films often use multiple camera angles, muscular orchestral scores provided by Sam Spence, Dave Robidoux and Tom Hedden and film of the players and coaches in the locker room after the game. Many say that through the use of these techniques NFL Films turns football games into forms which almost mimic ballet, opera, and epic battle stories.[3] A microphone with a cord A microphone, sometimes called a mic (pronounced mike), is a device that converts sound into an electrical signal. ...
Harry Kalas (born March 26, 1936) is an American sportscaster, best known for his roles as lead play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseballs Philadelphia Phillies, National Football League radio broadcasts by Westwood One and as voice-over narrator for NFL Films, a regular feature on HBOs...
Major league affiliations National League (1883–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 14, 20, 32, 36, 42 Name Philadelphia Phillies (1883–present) Philadelphia Quakers (1883–1883) (Also referred to as Blue Jays 1943-1945 despite formal name remaining Phillies) Other nicknames Phils, Phightin Phils, Phightins Ballpark...
John Facenda (August 8, 1913 – September 26, 1984) was a broadcaster and sports announcer. ...
WCAU (NBC10) is a NBC owned and operated station serving the Delaware Valley area, owned by NBC-Universal, with its transmitter in Roxborough. ...
In film and broadcasting, a soundbite is a very short piece of footage taken from a longer speech or an interview in which someone with authority says something which is considered by those who edit the speech or interview to be a most important point. ...
Samuel Lloyd Spence is an American soundtrack composer best known for his work with NFL Films. ...
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The epic is a broadly defined genre of narrative poetry, characterized by great length, multiple settings, large numbers of characters, or long span of time involved. ...
Television programs NFL Films produces the Greatest Moments series, which details classic games from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s; the Lost Treasures series, which uses old NFL Films footage which had previously never been shown on television to give an inside and largely uncut look at football players, coaches, and referees; and NFL Films Presents, which shows games of today that NFL Films produces in their traditional, dramatic style. They appear on either ESPN or the NFL Network. ESPN, formerly an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...
NFL Network is an American specialty channel owned and operated by the National Football League (NFL) and is also shown in Canada and Mexico. ...
Also, NFL Films' game highlights are a staple of HBO's Inside the NFL. HBO (Home Box Office) is an American premium cable television network. ...
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NFL Films is famous for producing annual highlight films for each team. If the team had a good year the film reveled in each victory while if the team had a bad year a viewer would never be able to tell that from the highlight film.
The Sabols' have used NFL Films to showcase their excellent senses of humor, as in the Football Follies series. The Follies used blooper plays, outtakes and silly narration. A collection of bloopers performed by top NFL players. ...
Success Although NFL Films earns more than $50 million in revenue a year and is expanding at a double digit rate, compared to the $18 billion in revenue that the NFL earns from television alone, most consider this to be minor.[4] The real value of NFL Films is how it packages and sells the game and many credit it as a key reason that the NFL has become the most watched league in the United States.
In addition to covering the National Football League, NFL Films has also ventured into other unrelated documentary films, such as documenting the Munich Olympics incident for one of NBC's Olympics telecasts, and serving as back-up film photography for other major events. It also produced the video for Journey's 1983 hit single "Faithfully". The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...
The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...
Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco, California. ...
Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...
NFL Films has made the National Football League the second-most documented subject on film behind World War II.[5] Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
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See also The National Football League (NFL) is the largest and most prestigious professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. ...
United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ...
A collection of bloopers performed by top NFL players. ...
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