Close Finish in the Chester Cup

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1040A

Date Released

12 May 1949

Date submitted

9 May 1949

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1All Yorkshire Rugby League Cup Final
2. 2Aerostatic Fete Revives Memories
3. 3The Duke Talks to World Youth Forum
4. *Close Finish in the Chester Cup

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Chester Cup (Mute). DESCRIPTION: Run on the Old Cup Course of nearly two miles, two furlongs, this race ended in a thrilling finish with ‘John Moore’ just winning from ‘Honorable II’. SHOTLIST: Cut story (special). KS GV crowds. Various shots of crowds. Horses parade round paddock, Honorable II with Gordon Richards up passes camera. Elevated GV start. Shots during race, panning shots as John Moore just winning.

Local distribution only

For Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester only instead of Item 2.

Keywords

Horse racing

Locations

Chester

Card file number

51921

Credits:

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Camera

James Humphries

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Camera

Martin Gray

Length of story (in feet)

110

Story extras:

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