1966 New York Mets Baseball Season Review "The Mets Are Coming", with Borden's Dairy Advert! F845

A promo film for the New York Mets season of 1966. This chronicles all the activities that the team engaged in this year, which was by all accounts a good year for the team (so the film claims...I really don't know myself). It ends rather abruptly, as there was sprocket damage in the last minute of film. It is possible this was lost film.

I can find very little about this film, but I assume it was a regional TV syndicate 30 minute slot filler (with ads). The production companies (Vision Associates and Wink Films) appear in various records of the 1960s as making this sort of thing for such stations, but I can find nothing of this particular production.

It has a couple of sweet sponsor adds at each end of the film.

Strange how often a sort of marching music was in vogue for American promos of the 1950s and 60s...perhaps the soundscape of a culture that felt it was going somewhere?

I can't pretend to know anything about baseball...but after watching it I sense there is more to this sport than I had realised.

Credits:

Narrated: Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson
Script: Dick Young
Production Supervisor: Arthur Richman
Edited: Barry Winik
Photography: Dick Winik
Produced: Vision Associates (also Wink Productions)
No director or script are mentioned.