Learning on ScreenMovietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The Grand National
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- British Movietone News
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- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sheila’s Cottage Wins Grand National. DESCRIPTION: THE WORLD’S GREATEST STEEPLECHASE WON BY SHEILA’S COTTAGE AT 50-1. SHOTLIST: KS LIBRARY - Slow motion horses taking first jump - side view. Elevated shots large crowds (x4). Elevated paddock shots, horses in same. Horses parade past camera, include Caughoo, Silver Fame, Prince Regent. Interior - jockeys weighed in (x4). Jockeys walk into parade ring. SCU jockeys mounting horses. Elevated horses canter past grandstand in background. Elevated horses canter along to start. Cut-in crowd shots. MS at start, horses await orders. GV line up at start. LS start, horses panning into past and out of camera. LS first jump, horses over and two fall. Cut-in crowds watch with binoculars. Pan and over 3rd jump. SV horses over another jump. Lough Conn leads over jump. SV Becher’s Brook - 2 fall. Horses out of camera, remote control. Panning of race. Elevated horses into camera at Canal Turn. SV slow motion over Valentine’s. Elevated horses over 12th jump, crowds in background. LS panning shot of race. Into camera, over jump, horse falls. Elevated jump 14 and Water Jump. MS crowds. Round bend into camera (semi). Elevated panning and taking 17th jump. Pan of field, over jump, Highland Lad falls. Horses out of camera, remote control. Panning shot First of Dandies leads. over Valentine’s - slow motion. Elevated SV pan of race (x2). Pan of race First of Dandies leads. Into camera - over 29th jump. Crowds. Elevated shot horses approach run in, Sheila’s Cottage, overtakes First of Dandies. SV crowds in fore, with above two horses to finish. Crowds. MS Sheila’s Cottage winning and riding on into unsaddling enclosure. Crowds around horse Sheila’s Cottage. In unsaddling, jockey (Thompson) dismounts, unsaddles horse and walks in to be weighed. Good CU of winning jockey.
- Keywords
- Horse racing
- Locations
- Liverpool; Aintree
- Footage sources
- Gaumont
British Paramount
Pathe
- Card file number
- 49991
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Alec Tozer
- Camera
- James Humphries
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Martin Gray
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Camera
- Paul Wyand
- Length of story (in feet)
- 755
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