Sport Slants #3 (1931)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Ted Husing hosts/narrates this Warner/Vitaphone short as he explains three different sports: cricket, sailing and polo. Those who enjoy ESPN and shows like Sportcenter as much as I do will probably get a small kick out of this "documentary" that was clearly meant to introduce these sports to people in mid-America who probably had never seen them and might not have even heard of them. I can't imagine anyone in 1931 would have been interested in this thing if they were already familiar with the sports. I say this because Husing really goes into great detail about the rules of all three sports so if you already know them then what's to gain by watching this? I'm not overly familiar with any of the three sports so I did enjoy learning a few of the tricks that I wasn't familiar with and especially during the opening act on cricket. For the most part Husing really goes all out and by the time you're done watching this you'll understand the sports and their rules. The sailing and polo are two sports I'm really not interested in so my attention span was going in and out throughout the final six-minutes of the film.