CBI #116: World Filmer Socrates Leal w/ unreleased footage

[chops]

Hello Slap,

I posted an interview today with legendary world/dwindle filmer Socrates Leal.

http://chromeballincident.blogspot.com/2018/04/chrome-ball-interview-116-socrates-leal.html

He even sent over some unreleased golden era footage of Guy, Koston, Rick, Jed, Creager and Gav that I'm pretty hyped on.

Hope you are well.

Bye.

[yep yep]

rolling one up and reading this!!!!

[Global Moderator]

I've always wanted to see the footage of these sequences... this was a gift that absolutely made my year.

[silhouette]

this is incredible. thanks for all the hard work over the years, your contribution to the culture is priceless, much appreciated

[Willy Santos cut my hair]

He (Henry) came in to edit with that Black Sabbath song and a list of all his tricks in the exact order that he wanted them. He even had it down to how it opened up with that line to start everything out, no music. He specifically wanted you to hear the bricks.

“No music until this line comes kicking in and that’s when you start the song.“

my respect for Sanch has just tripled. so stoked

[GOKU]

When I was younger, for some reason my mental image of Socrates was always this older wise bald black man with glasses and big beard

[shark tits]

When I was younger, for some reason my mental image of Socrates was always this older wise bald black man with glasses and big beard

he bs flipped a trash can of a wall in an old mag, dude could also kfbsts. a real man's man in the LA schoolyard sense. i thought he was a pussy though in NOLA when billy pepper took that lady's glasses from her face and brandished a knife, soc goes 'i'm not filming this' but he was badass when he got in rick kosick's shot of billy pepper at the white house doubleset.
thanks chops!

[TheDraught]

this is skateboardings equivalent to the Dead Sea Scrolls

love that late afternoon, warm light LA vibe.

5 gnars for anyone who makes a high quality gif of Ricks tre flip on the banana board for my new sig.

[5inchDick]

FUCKING AMAZING

DEF ONE OF THE BEST THINGS IVE WATCHED IN YEARS FOR FUCKING SURE.


THANK YOU MR. CHOPS. THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH.

BETWEEN THIS AND FREDS BOB INTERVIEW THIS WEEK COULDNT HAVE ENDED ANY BETTER

[Dark Knight]

Thank you, Chops!  I couldn’t be happier.

[Alan]

That footage is definitely in the holy grail category! Thanks Chops!


p.s. Please tell Soc I loved Clerks and Mallrats.

[BacksideWallride]

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When I was younger, for some reason my mental image of Socrates was always this older wise bald black man with glasses and big beard

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he bs flipped a trash can of a wall in an old mag, dude could also kfbsts. a real man's man in the LA schoolyard sense. i thought he was a pussy though in NOLA when billy pepper took that lady's glasses from her face and brandished a knife, soc goes 'i'm not filming this' but he was badass when he got in rick kosick's shot of billy pepper at the white house doubleset.
thanks chops!

"Quit leaning in!"

[schralp pal]

Congrats on 10 years!

His world stories were some of the best yet. Does he still work at dwindle?

[fongool]

Making/releasing the Menace video 20 years after the fact would be so sick. I had never seen that Fabian part -- the Pupecki part would probably be mental.

[shark tits]

"i'm not gonna lean, i'm not gonna do this, i'm not causin a problem. i'm a homo sexu al."
dude ripped but now that i think of it, i might've been confusing his bs flip w/ pat canale.

[happenstance]

Making/releasing the Menace video 20 years after the fact would be so sick. I had never seen that Fabian part -- the Pupecki part would probably be mental.

I always considered the City Stars video as the Menace video, more or less. I felt like they never stopped advertising that "video coming soon" in their transition from MNC > All City > CS.

I hadn't seen that Fabian part either. Some crazy stuff. I know some of it had been used elsewhere, but not all of it. That frontside flip fakie nose manual on the table was impressive!



Edit: And thank you chops for 10 years of cbi. Your passion for skateboarding really shines through in your interviews.

[shark tits]

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Making/releasing the Menace video 20 years after the fact would be so sick. I had never seen that Fabian part -- the Pupecki part would probably be mental.

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I always considered the City Stars video as the Menace video, more or less. I felt like they never stopped advertising that "video coming soon" in their transition from MNC > All City > CS.

I hadn't seen that Fabian part either. Some crazy stuff. I know some of it had been used elsewhere, but not all of it. That frontside flip fakie nose manual on the table was impressive!



Edit: And thank you chops for 10 years of cbi. Your passion for skateboarding really shines through in your interviews.

because the night belongs to frank hurts.