By Fred Hudson
The Roosevelt Raceway
Documentary is in-production and the trailer has been released. There will be a
short ten minute version released and shown at the 2017 Roosevelt Raceway
reunion (date and place to be announced soon). The full version will be
released in the Fall of 2017.
The goal is to have the
documentary aired on the PBS or the History Channel.
The Roosevelt Raceway
story is being produced by Trade Martin Productions with assistance from Billy
Haughton, Mike Lizzi and myself. Trade, a Grammy winner and multiple Clio Award
nominee, also wrote the Roosevelt Raceway song and is currently working on
other songs that will be added to the documentary.
Jimmy Jay, known as the
DJ of the stars and radio show host out of Boston, will be doing the voice
overs. Jimmy's prime time radio show has close to a million listeners and he
has done voice overs for many movies and commercials.
The story will tell how
modern harness racing came to being and how this once great racetrack came to
it's tragic end.
Included in the
documentary are some great photos, videos, and interviews with some of the
people that were there. We have also added some special effects which include
photos over videos (as seen in the trailer). There are other special effects
that will be included in the final video.
The preview/trailer with
an introduction can be viewed at http://www.rrtrotting.com/documentary
