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‘Drain – A Dogbowl Short’ film

Rare footage of Z-Boys bowl skating from the 1970s.

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‘Drain – A Dogbowl Short’ film

Filmmaker Jake Janisse has recently released this mini skate film, Drain - A Dogbowl Short.

It features previous unreleased 8mm footage of Dogtown's legendary Z-Boys including Stacy Peralta and Tony Alva skating the renowned Dogbowl in Santa Monica way back in the summer of 1977.

It was shot by Dogtown local Wayne Babcock, who is also the proud owner of the collection of antique decks shown in the video.

This is a rare slice of skate history...

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Creative Commons License‘Drain – A Dogbowl Short’ film (text) by Ed Andrews is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Comments (1)

  • I really appreciated this clip artistically, the focus on the skateboard collection, like a gallery exhibit and then the song used. Something about that footage, it just comes across as a sunnier time, like a Beach Boys song. The skating seems tame by today's standards, cool to think that it was all invented by these people.
    James
    http://nominatedshortfilm.word.....ess.com

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