A 1976 fourteen minute documentary short film on skateboarding ,produced ,directed ,photographed and edited by Californian filmmaking team Jim Freeman (who died in the same year as this film's release) and Greg MacGillivray. A kind of promo for skateboarding (with narration written by Drew Karrigdon) ,this features skateboarding dogs and chickens ,a one legged skateboarder called Mike Johnson ,a fair number of female skateboarders ,and Guy Grundy breaking his own skateboard velocity record (with a time of 55.7 miles per hour). In this world where 'every surface becomes a dance floor' and 'it's all above board' ,we have skateboarders using empty swimming pools as skateboarding rinks (with 'kids pulling out all the stops' - the narration often goes for a comic tone) ,stunts ,leaps ,turns ,and crashes ,accompanied by a surfeit of intriguing angles ,with evocative use of slow motion ,and mounted cameras as standard.
