Pocket Billiards 8/8/7/73
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Professional pool players Luther Lassiter and Steve Mizerak play pocket billiards and are briefly interviewed in what appears to be an excerpt from a longer piece.
Credits
Frank Koza (filmmaker); Steve Mizerak (interviewee); Luther Lassiter (interviewee)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Frank Koza Collection
Notes: Professional pool players Luther Lassiter and Steve Mizerak play a game of pocket billiards against each other. Afterwards a reporter asks Steve about how they prepare for a billiards tournament, to which Steve answers "Practice, keep happy, and keep your pockets full of money."; In the background there is a banner for "Viking Cue MFG. Inc." and a sign for "The National Billiards News"; The tournament they are being asked about might be the U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship. In 1973 Steve Mizerak was the winner and Luther Lassiter was the runner up.
Subjects: Sports; Games; Pool (Game)
Cfa elements: Color Reversal Intermediate, 32 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/13018
Notes: Professional pool players Luther Lassiter and Steve Mizerak play a game of pocket billiards against each other. Afterwards a reporter asks Steve about how they prepare for a billiards tournament, to which Steve answers "Practice, keep happy, and keep your pockets full of money."; In the background there is a banner for "Viking Cue MFG. Inc." and a sign for "The National Billiards News"; The tournament they are being asked about might be the U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship. In 1973 Steve Mizerak was the winner and Luther Lassiter was the runner up.
Subjects: Sports; Games; Pool (Game)
Cfa elements: Color Reversal Intermediate, 32 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/13018
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:16