This RKO Sportscope about the sort of sports and games that the Basques play -- usually involving rock walls or swinging an axe while unshod feet are around -- is a typically interesting entry in the series. It is rendered a little more interesting to me because a lot of the games derive from handball, a game which my father played until he was sixty; one day he took me out to the court he played on and proceeded to embarrass me and leave a few bruises where the ball landed.
I do have some issues with Harry Wismer's narration, which is pitched consistently as a shout, as if the audience is deaf. It is possible to speak loudly without shouting and it is a trifle odd that Mr. Wismer never learned how.
I do have some issues with Harry Wismer's narration, which is pitched consistently as a shout, as if the audience is deaf. It is possible to speak loudly without shouting and it is a trifle odd that Mr. Wismer never learned how.
