Real Champions!

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

934-1

Date Released

18 Jul 1929

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fire Engines Funerals
2. 2In the Sizzling Sunshine
3. 3Real Champions!
4. 4Prize Day at Police Orphanage
5. 5The Duke and Duchess of York
6. *A Scottish Invasion
7. *High Jinks
8. *At St Margaret’s

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Our wonderful girl athletes smash five records - 2 world’s and 3 British, in the 7th annual championship meeting at Stamford Bridge." Slow motion shots. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Miss H Hatt, 80 metres hurdles in 12 2/5 seconds (New world record)". "Mrs Cornell, Long Jump - 18’11 1/2 " (New British Record)". Women athletes in competition at Stamford Bridge.

Keywords

Sport; Athletics; Newsreels

Length of story (in feet)

96

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
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Web

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Phone

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Fax

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Address

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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