Skateboard Sense

★★★★★ · Skate Or Die · MediaWhore · 2004-11-30

Excellent 70's skate footage encouraging kids to wear protective gear and to stay off the street!! Like the other reviewer on here stated, this film really shows off skateboardings surfing roots with all of the carving manuevers they perform on the banked playground walls (or cement wave). The narrator for this movie states "You just can't have any fun skateboarding on crowded streets, it's just too dangerous". How wrong he is!! Anyone who appreciates skateboardings colorfull history will love this film.

★★★★★ · Subtle with interesting effects · John_Smith · 2005-03-25

This film is quaint, a real product of its time. It also has some very impressive features that in a way forecast the Z-boys film. Close to the beginning there is a tracking shot from behind, whrer the camera follows a skater zigzagging through a line of orange pylons. The skater's moves are great, but it occurred to me that the camera operator was duplicating the the moves to keep up, and the shot was steady with no bumps or jitters. The sped-up accident sequences are very clever too, being both funny and punctuative of minor acidents. In all, another example of first rate filming in the…

★★★★★ · UNDERRATED AND VERY FUNNY · Classic_TV_and_Radio_Fan · 2008-11-12

Ok it's not funny, but it sure is underrated.

★★★★★ · Thank You Rick Prelinger · Robin_1990 · 2008-04-15

This film looks like it was saved just in time. It's not "Citizen Kane", But it's a fun time-capsule with great footage. Thank you Rick for preserving this fun film.

★★★★★ · Wayback machine · NCalBiker · 2010-01-05

Wow, desert boots on a skate board. Been there, done that. Talk about taking you back. Banana boards from PayLess, no padding, crepe soled shoes, no helmet... amazing we survived. No, this is not funny. What it does is show the early days of the sport, before WE started thinking about the future, or possably lack of. I remember riding the ambulance with a friend that didn't make it on a long down hill. He went down, hit his head and lost all feeling from the neck down. 35 years later, he still needs someone to feed him. WEAR A HELMET, PLEASE.

★★★★ · Well shot · mjwise · 2006-01-25

Sid Davis Productions was actually getting fairly competent by the 70's if this film is any indication. I can't help but wonder if Sid himself had passed on producing and directing duties to others by the 70's and also if this was still produced under his infamous $1000 film budget. Gone are the cheaply acted outings and heavy-handed, moralistic tales of the 50's. This film gets its point across through simple demonstration (with, as others have mentioned, excellent tracking camera work) and a few sped-up shorts. While I think you could disagree with some of its message (Kneepads, gloves…