I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling (1960)
• June 7th, 1960 • 0h 25min
Documentary
Overview
A short 1960 documentary about physical fitness trends in the big city. Here you see modern man brought to bay by his own poundage, resolved to erase by exercise what rich food, idleness and age have put on.
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