Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Thrilling Olympic Finals

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1001

Date Released

9 Aug 1948

Date submitted

6 Aug 1948

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Section Title

Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Thrilling Olympic Finals. DESCRIPTION: There was a photo finish in the women’s 80 metres hurdles with Fanny Blankers-Koen of Netherlands just taking gold from Britain’s Maureen Gardner. The men’s 400 metres produced a thrilling finish with Wint of Jamaica coming from behind to beat his countryman McKenley. The yachting has been taking place at Torbay but as yet no final results have been achieved. SHOTLIST: KS MS Olympic flame with crowds in background. Interior - GV Wembley Empire Pool. Competitor climbs steps to top of diving board. CU type watching. MS diving. Underwater shot of competitor entering water. MS competitor diving, cut to underwater shot of him entering water. Cut-in Chinese sailors watching diving. MS Sammy Lee (USA) diving. Cut to underwater shot. Several shots taken from gantry shows divers out of camera into water. Slow motion shots of diving. CU Mrs Draves embracing Sammy Lee. CU Sammy Lee. Wembley Stadium GV hop, step & jump (triple jump). Into camera - slow motion competitor from Brazil performing. Ahman (Sweden) competing & winning. 80 metre hurdles - SCU Maureen Gardner (GB) on track. CU Fanny Blankers-Koen. SCU pan of competitors ready for start. Elevated GV of start, pan - Gardner & Blankers-Koen finish almost in dead heat, Gardner runs into track official. Cut-in crowds applauding. Gardner & Blankers-Koen walk across arena arm in arm. Photograph of finish. GV indicator shows win for Blankers-Koen. MS medal ceremony with Gardner & Blankers-Koen on dais. CU Royal Standard flying. MS Royal Box shows, King, Queen, Philip Noel-Baker in background. Elevated GV stadium. SCU expression of competitors in the putting the shot. CU types. Cut-in Duke of Edinburgh looking through binoculars behind him is Marquess of Blandford pan to Queen. Thompson (USA) makes winning put. CU Thompson pan with shot & hitting the ground. Torquay - GV from cliffs of crowds watching race. GV yachts racing. Various shots of races including the Swallow & Star yachts. Cut-in spectators. Various shots yachts under full sail, clouds in background. Several shots yachts racing at Torbay. Wembley Stadium - MS start of 3,000 metres steeplechase, camera panning over jumps, water jumps etc. Pujazon (France) (No 349) retires at a jump. Sjoestrand (No 357), Elmsaeter (No 355) & Siltaloppi (No 345) all in the front. Siltaloppi (Finland) stumbles over last water jump. Sjoestrand (Sweden) winning into camera elevated. CU Sjoestrand. 400 metres CU Wint (Jamaica) CU McKenley (Jamaica). GV start & pan of race, cut-in crowds. Into camera finish Wint overtakes McKenley to win. Slow motion of same, Wint winning. GV indicator. Victory ceremony - Wint & McKenley on dais. CU Wint. Wint & McKenley & 3rd (USA) competitor on dais.

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Sport

Footage sources

Gaumont

Card file number

50599

Credits:

Commentator: Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

693

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