340 Starters in North London Cross Country Run at Hendon

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

536

Date Released

1 Dec 1921

Stories in this Issue:

1. *340 Starters in North London Cross Country Run at Hendon
2. *Lovely Lingfield
3. *Miss Joan Mclean to Be the Children’s Joy as ‘Peter Pan’ This Christmas Time
4. *'Potted Sunshine’ Pierces London’s Night
5. *'Who Said Xmas?'

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "It was almost dark at the time but ‘Topical’ managed to take the pictures with their special ‘Potted Sunshine’ lights. "WA Pottinger, Hendon Harriers first man home"." Cross country race filmed at night by ‘potted sunshine’ [method of flash photography].

Keywords

Sport; Athletics

Length of story (in feet)

38

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