A brief history of table tennis in film - from Forrest Gump to Marty Supreme

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Table tennis and film have a surprisingly entangled history. Both depended on the invention of celluloid - which not only became the substrate of film, but is also used to make ping pong balls.

Following a brief ping pong craze in 1902, the game largely disappeared and was widely assumed to have been a passing fad. More