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Bigger Stronger Faster: Sports on Film

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Directors

Seth Gordon

Producers

Ed Cunningham

Cinematographers

Ross Tuttle

Editors

J. Clay Tweel

Jim Bruce

Sound

Nathan Smith

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

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2007

United States

79 min

Color

In the early 1980s, legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe, an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed. The top scores are monitored by a cadre of players and fans associated with Walter Day, an Iowan who runs Funspot, an annual tournament. Wiebe breaks Mitchell’s record in public at Funspot, and Mitchell promptly mails a video tape of himself setting a new record. So Wiebe travels to Florida hoping Mitchell will face him for the 2007 Guinness World Records…

Director

Seth Gordon (born July 15, 1976) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film editor. He has produced and directed both film and TV for several major film and television studios, and for PBS, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Nations 1% For Development Fund. His films have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival.

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