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A five-woman roller skating team, the Pittsburgh Pitts, sets out to strike a rock 'em, sock 'em blow for womanhood in a race with an all-male team: April 24, 1978 1: 2 "Come to Me, My Melancholy Mongo" Her teammates secretly arrange for lonely, dateless Mongo to have a night of romance with the team's owner-coach. May 1, 1978 1: 3 "The Birth of ...
Roller Derby Girl; Roller Life; Rollerball (1975 film) Rollerball (2002 film) S. The Shaggy D.A. T. This Is Roller Derby; U. Unholy Rollers; W. Whip It (film)
Derby is a 1971 American documentary film directed by Robert Kaylor about the world of professional roller derby in the 1970s. The film is also known as Roller Derby in the United Kingdom. Plot summary
The film was made to cash in on publicity from MGM's roller derby film, Kansas City Bomber. Roger Corman agreed to produce the film for AIP, even though he had established his own studio, New World Pictures. This was one of the last times Corman collaborated with AIP. There were several other competing roller derby films announced in early 1972.
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues [note 1] worldwide, though it is most popular in the United States. [2] A 60-minute roller derby game, or bout, is a series of two-minute timed jams.
The collection is full of Pepsi blue, which Roach says is a given, and also includes sateen bombers, shorts, snap-away pants, trucker hats, and a denim jumpsuit, which Roach absolutely loves.
Springfield Roller Derby — at the time Springfield Roller Girls — was founded by Ted Hall, Jason McDaniel and Catina Ankrom in 2006, according to the league's website. The league practiced for ...
The Los Angeles T-Birds team in 1983. Roller Games was the name of a sports entertainment spectacle created in the early 1960s in Los Angeles, California [1] as a rival to the Jerry Seltzer-owned Roller Derby league, which had enjoyed a monopoly on the sport of roller derby — and its name — since its inception in 1935.