Pong on film

Is the film Beerfest (2006) the first film to depict the playing of pong? (See The Dartmouth;Wikipedia.) The characters appear to use paddles, but the film’s creators learned the game at Colgate.

Daniel Lindsay, director of a post-9/11 documentary titled Why U.S.?, is directing a film meant to document pong and its history on a national scale, according to an article in The Dartmouth. He and producer Josh Otten were in Hanover gathering material in November.

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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link to Stanford Daily regarding Why U.S.? removed, broken link to The Dartmouth fixed.]
[Update 12.12.2006: Documentary information added.]

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