Learning on ScreenRoyal Tournament in the Open Air
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: The Royal Marines put on the gun-running-hunting cabaret act which is a foretaste of fighting skills the Armed Forces put on for their famous Royal Tournament in the Open Air. From the Marines we move on to the RAF police dog act - a fight against an armed intruder that rolls from the roof of a car to the ground - a fight that makes previous ones look like staged and improbable imitations of a real arrest. Here you see the discipline that, in a moment, you re-encounter at Devonport as the Field Gun Race gets under way. This is the race that for sixty Royal Tournaments has thrilled the public only we see it in close-ups and out in the open. It takes tough athletes to make the Field Gun Race look easy - and it takes tough athletes to make gymnasts look graceful and effortless. The Army Physical Training Corps do that and more - they show the split-second timing, the teamwork, the fitness and the daring that, you gasp to discover, Service life can still stir in a man.
- Keywords
- Displays; Military
- Locations
- Aldershot; Devonport; Devon; England; Essex; Hampshire; Debden
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Wilfrid Thomas
- Length of story (in feet)
- 642
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