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  1. Channel Swim

    Date released
    5 Oct 1959
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    249
    NoS ID
    120790
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: A "sport" only to the hardiest and most durable among us is distance swimming, and the toughest test in this country is the International Cross-Channel Race. We show you something of the...

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  2. Greta the Great

    Date released
    28 Aug 1958
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    58/69
    NoS ID
    108294
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    Greta Anderson shatters the women’s Channel swim record - and nearly the men’s as well.

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  3. Channel Swim

    Date released
    28 Aug 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1525A
    NoS ID
    022569
    Story no
    1 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Channel Swim. DESCRIPTION: Some thirty swimmers got ready for the start of the international Cross-Channel race, at Cap Gris Nez. A chilly prospect: to set off, in the dark, from...

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  4. The Channel Swim

    Date released
    31 Aug 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1578
    NoS ID
    023196
    Story no
    2 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Channel Swim. DESCRIPTION: On the beach at Cap Nez, greasing-up for the big swim. There was Greta Anderson (twice a winner). Rough seas made the organisation of the start very...

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  5. Records Broken in Channel Race

    Date released
    28 Aug 1950
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1108
    NoS ID
    016626
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Records Broken in Channel Race. DESCRIPTION: At Cap Gris Nez there was great excitement for the start of the Daily Mail Channel Swimming Race. The favourite, Frenchman Roger Le Morvan...

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  6. Channel - Under Sea Drama

    Date released
    22 Aug 1960
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    60/68
    NoS ID
    109327
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    American woman, Jame Baldsare, fails in attempt to swim Channel below surface

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  7. Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Channel Swim Record Broken

    Date released
    2 Sep 1948
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1004A
    NoS ID
    015294
    Story no
    4 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Blower Breaks Channel Record. DESCRIPTION: Tom Blower breaks the record for swimming from England to France. SHOTLIST: KS Dusk shot - Tom Blower about to enter water. Silhouette almost...

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  8. Swan Upping

    Date released
    17 Jul 1972
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2250
    NoS ID
    029472
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Swan Upping. DESCRIPTION: For 498 years, this ceremony of marking the swans on the River Thames has been carried on. The swans marked according to the previous marks on the beaks of the...

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  9. Water Witches

    Date released
    22 Aug 1929
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    429
    NoS ID
    332238
    Story no
    4 / 7

    NoS Summary - Hornsey open air swimming pool - lots of posing girls and larking around. British Pathe synopsis: "Filmed at Hornsey open air swimming pool". "This picture explains why Adam frequents the pools...

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  10. The Channel Swimmers

    Date released
    20 Aug 1951
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1159
    NoS ID
    017317
    Story no
    2 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Channel Swimmers. DESCRIPTION: 20 competitors - thirteen men and seven women - entered for this year’s Daily Mail Channel Swim. Hamad of Egypt was the first to arrive, closely...

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