Screening Time: Saturday, May 3, 1:30 PM,
Charles Theatre 5
Director: Filmaking team Cliff Hackel, James
Mokhiber, Murray Pinczuk, and Rick Young
Cast: Alva Brown, Michael Olesker, Royal Parker
 Country:
U.S.
Year: 2003
Running Time: 40 minutes
Format: Beta SP
Duckpin Bowling – the bowling phenomenon based predominantly
in Baltimore that is played by knocking down smaller pins with
smaller balls than traditional ten-pin bowling. A once-thriving
sport popular enough to keep one-thousand-plus lanes open and
carry a few highly-rated local television shows, duckpin bowling
is now kept alive at a diminishing handful of lanes. The surviving
lanes suffer as longtime bowling enthusiasts become too old to
bowl, and the next generation fails to find enough interest in
the sport to keep it alive. This is Duckpin Country documents
the story of duckpin bowling from it’s creation, to it’s
heyday, up to the recent battle to keep alive Southway Lanes,
one of the city’s beloved duckpin bowling institutions.
Features appearances from Baltimore television personality/"Pinbusters"
host Royal Parker; legendary lady bowlers Norma Gunkel, Patsy
Stroessner, Min Weisenborn (a.k.a "the Russian shotputter")
and Ruth Zentz; former Southway owner and Duckpin Hall of Famer
Cliff Kidd; developer Pat Turner; Marge Chaney of the National
Duckpin Bowling Congress (in Linthicum); and Southway’s
Alva Brown with her sons Rick and Rand Brown.
--Skizz Cyzyk
Presented By: Cliff Hackel, James Mokhiber, Murray Pinczuk, and
Rick Young
Showing with Ray4theNBA
Director: Jim O’Donnell
Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 28:00
Format: Beta SP
Ray Harris has dreams of playing basketball in the National Basketball
Association. He can make a three-point shot from anywhere behind
the line. He is a free-throw specialist, who has a better than
seventy percent chance that he will sink the shot. Yet Ray is
30 years old and only 5 foot 3 inches tall. This documentary follows
Ray as he tries to achieve his goal by founding a student intramural
basketball league and continually trying to interest sports agent
Jimmy Sexton in his talents.
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