1968 - Sport’s Golden Year - in Technicolor

Issue No.

69/1

Date Released

30 Dec 1968

Stories in this Issue:

Story No. within this Issue: 1 / 1
Summary: Olympic ski-ing, the Grand National, the Derby, Grand Prix Motor Racing, Water Ski-ing, Power Boating, the Olympics. Football - what a year it was for sport. Pathe News recaptures some of those golden moments of triumph, those split seconds of thrills when men and women, the cream of the world’s athletes, pitted themselves against all comers and passed the supreme test of their abilities. 1968 will be long remembered as a time when records were broken, spectators were thrilled as never before - in every way, 1968 was truly Sport’s Golden Year.
Keywords: Sport; Review of the Year
Footage sources: Library
Length of story (in feet): 795
Story extras:: Film clip

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