- Introducing the pro-football world champions, the Chicago Bears, for the first time on the picture screen in an animated analysis of the intricate and tricky plays that won for them during the 1933 season the peerage of all football teams.
- Famed grid plays that gave many star football players national renown in the football world are seen again as depicted by Harold 'Red' Grange and other greats, which features the world's champion pro-football team, the Chicago Bears. Old 77 Harold 'Red' Grange will demonstrate in slow motion how easy it was for him to make All-America with his famous dashes for touchdowns right from the kickoff. In 1924, Grange, then the "Galloping Ghost" of Illinois, made several sensational field runs for touchdowns against Michigan, and he performs the same feat in the picture, this time in slow-motion photography so that the play may be analyzed. Bronko Nagurski, of Minnesota '29, is shown crashing through the line, falling down, getting back on his feet, and continuing for a touchdown. In 1929, Nagurski achieved collegiate fame, when, in the memorable game against Iowa, he ran 49 yards for a touchdown, and again in the same year, against Wisconsin, when he made a sensational crash through the line for the scoring touchdown. Jack Manders, Minnesota '32, is shown in a spectacular spinner play inside of tackle. This is the same maneuver that Manders mastered against Wisconsin in 1931, when he ran 85 yards for the final and winning touchdown. These and many other baffling plays, which have elevated the Chicago Bears to the top rung of the pro-football ladder, make "Pro Football" what is considered one of the most unusual short subjects of the year. The plays were taken both in slow motion, and with rapid fire action, and the dialogue was supplied by that witty off-screen commentator, Pete Smith.
- "Pro Football", the unusual Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Oddity, introduces the world's championship professional football team, the Chicago Bears, for the first time on the picture screen in an animated analysis of the intricate and tricky plays that won for them during the 1933 season the peerage of all football teams, both amateur and professional. The plays are illustrated both in normal and slow motion pictures, with the details of their outstanding scoring plays, in such a manner that the picture audience can follow the ball and see the flashy feats of football legerdemain that the human eye usually misses upon an open football scene. Among the elusive plays, almost all of them invented by the Chicago Bears, are forward and triple-lateral passes; the spread and double spread plays that have baffled all of the professional teams that have competed with the Chicago team; difficult goal kicking: spring-board touchdowns; huddle plays using center; spread lateral interference and a score of more additional thrilling football tricks. Most unbelievable of all, big "Bull" John Doehring hurling a 57 yard pass behind his back. The film shows the pros as super-footballer. The action of the plays is described by Pete Smith, MGM's inimitable commentator. The direction is by Ray McCarey, former football star quarterback in his own right.
- The Chicago Bears professional football team, focusing on the offensive line, is shown in scrimmage. The explanatory remarks of the mostly rather unconventional but all legal plays are told by Pete Smith. The final scrimmage is of a more genteel way to play the game that some of a more delicate nature may prefer.—Huggo
- This MGM Oddity features the 1933 National Football League champion Chicago Bears. The team demonstrates various plays, which are shown first in real time, then in slow motion.—David Glagovsky <dglagovsky@prodigy.net>
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