World Famous Players Ball (2002) (edited still)

AP-107 · FILM AND TELEVISION

World Famous Players Ball (2002)

Michael Maroy's 2002 DVD record of Don Magic Juan's Chicago Players Ball, the earliest surviving Too Real For TV title.

Film card: Too Real for TV / Hood Box Office.

World Famous Players Ball is a documentary by Michael Maroy on Archbishop Don "Magic" Juan's annual Players Ball in Chicago. It was produced by Maroy Visual Images, Inc. and presented by Too Real For TV, and is the earliest surviving title from the label. The original DVD, held in the Hood Box Office archive, carries a 2002 copyright on the back cover (the disc label reads 2003), the credit "A Film by M.B. Maroy" and a printed running time of about 90 minutes.

The packaging names Don Magic Juan, Snoop Dogg, Ice-T, Bad Azz, King Jo Jo, Good Game, Kenny Red, Pimpin Ken and Lee Mack. It is event footage: arrivals, costumes, awards and interviews at a gathering that the HBO documentary Pimps Up, Ho's Down had already brought to television in 1998. Being filmed at the ball places a person there; it does not establish anything else about them.

This archive's Players Ball record covers the event itself; this entry covers only Maroy's film of it. Disclosure: this archive is maintained by Hood Box Office, which hosts and sells the film; descriptions quoted from its pages are the seller's own copy.

STATUS
Unknown

ERA
2002

ASSOCIATED WITH
Michael Maroy; Maroy Visual Images, Inc.; Too Real For TV; Bishop Don Magic Juan; the Players Ball; Chicago; Snoop Dogg; Ice-T

STANDING
Documented

DOCUMENTED RECORD

2002 — Copyright year on the back cover; the disc label reads ©2003 (Hood Box Office DVD Archive copy).
Label and credits: "Too Real For TV Presents / A Film by Maroy"; "A Film by M.B. Maroy"; manufactured and distributed by Maroy Visual Images, Inc.
Running time as printed: about 90 minutes. UPC 694143003020.
Names on the packaging: Archbishop Don "Magic" Juan, Big Snoop Dogg, Ice-T, Bad Azz, King Jo Jo, Good Game, Kenny Red, Pimpin Ken, Lee Mack.

NOT ESTABLISHED

Which year's ball the footage shows: the packaging does not say, and the sleeve and disc dates differ by a year.
How much screen time each named person has: the names come from the packaging, not from a viewing log.