Cramer Releases Feature-Length Sports DVD in Collaboration With The Boston Globe

Cramer Releases Feature-Length Sports DVD in Collaboration With The Boston Globe -- Boston's Greatest Sports Stories: Beyond the Headlines DVD Features more than Sixty of Boston's Most Historic Sports Stories, Including the Boston Red Sox 2004 Season. -- Revealed for the First Time are the Behind-the-Scenes Events Known Only to the Writers and Photographers at the Scene and In The Moment. NORWOOD, Mass., Nov. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- More than six months in the making -- and temporarily delayed so that writers, editors, and videographers could include last minute coverage of the Boston Red Sox' celebrated 2004 season as well as the victory parade that attracted three million fans from all over New England, Cramer announced today that in partnership with The Boston Globe, it has completed and is releasing its feature-length DVD entitled Boston's Greatest Sports Stories: Beyond the Headlines. It becomes the seventh major product in Cramer's growing and award-winning portfolio of independent or collaborative broadcast-quality productions, two of which have earned Emmy awards. Drawing on over 100 years worth of treasured historic stories, pictures and the personal recollections of The Boston Globe's writers, photographers and editors, the almost three-hour DVD also includes historic film footage and interviews about the most memorable sporting events in the history of Boston. The sports include Red Sox baseball, Patriots football, Bruins and Olympic hockey, Celtics basketball, Ryder Cup golf, the Boston Marathon as well as boxing greats with a Boston-area heritage. In all, more than 40 of the region's most memorable sports stories are featured. Cramer's Emmy Award winning filmmaking professionals, producers, editors, writers and technical specialists distilled some 100 hours of raw footage and reviewed more than 600 photographs in the half-year-long project to create this first-of-its kind DVD production. Scripted by Leigh Montville, a long- term and nationally-known former sportswriter at The Boston Globe, this collection gives the 'behind-the-scenes' stories in the words of The Boston Globe's men and women who are at these events and who come to know the sports stars from a vantage point most fans never get a chance to see. Among other never-reported inside stories, viewers of the DVD learn what is was like to interview an imposing Ted Williams for the first time; what it meant to work at the old Boston Garden where sometimes it seemed the rats outnumbered the spectators; what went through the sportswriter's mind that cold day after Thanksgiving the year Doug Flutie completed that improbable Hail Mary pass. Featured interviews include the recollections of such veterans of the sports-writing, editing and sports-photography business as Jackie MacMullan, Dan Shaughnessy, Bob Ryan, Bud Collins, Fran Rosa, Nick Cafardo, Peter Gammons, Gordon Edes, John Powers, Jim Davis, Don Skwar, Kevin Dupont, Frank O'Brien, Jim McCabe, Vince Doria, Michael Smith, Barry Chin, Ron Borges, and Michael Vega. Cramer, based in Norwood, Massachusetts, is the leading independent integrated media productions company specializing in integrated marketing solutions, interactive media, print and video services, and training solutions. These core service offerings are principally provided to an industry-leading portfolio of corporate clients, including Serono, Bayer HealthCare, Novartis, Genzyme, Comcast, EMC, Citizens Bank, Gillette. PricewaterhouseCoopers, and UPS. The Company's independent video and DVD productions have included: Banner Years: The History of the Boston Garden; Red Sox Home Run Heroes; The Story of Golf; The Boston Red Sox: 100 Years of Baseball History; The Beanpot: Where Dreams Come True; and Cowboy Up: The Story of the 2003 Boston Red Sox. Boston's Greatest Sports Stories: Beyond the Headlines is available online as well as at a broad range of popular regional retail outlets for $19.99. Online it can be ordered at http://www.boston.com/sportsdvd or by calling 877- GLOBE-DVD. It is available as well at the following retail outlets: Stop & Shop, Shaw's, Walgreens, Best Buy, Sports Authority, Star Market, Tedeschi Food Shops, Lil' Peach, and Store 24. Contact: Ken London General Manager, Special Programming 781-278-2325 klondon@crameronline.com Source: Cramer CONTACT: Ken London, General Manager. Special Programming of Cramer, +1-781-278-2325, klondon@crameronline.com Web site: http://www.crameronline.com/ http://www.boston.com/sportsdvd ------- Profile: International Entertainment