Glasgow Highland Games

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1042A

Date Released

26 May 1949

Date submitted

23 May 1949

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Royal Guests at Windsor Wedding
2. 2New Zealanders at Cricket Headquarters
3. 3Rita Hayworth to Wed at Riviera Chateau
4. 4Big 4 Meet in Paris
5. 5Philadelphia Orchestra Rehearses for British Tour. (Exclusive Pictures)
6. *Mr Churchill’s Call to Scotland
7. *Big Golf Prize Won by Haliburton
8. *Trailer - Reaping the Benefit
9. *Glasgow Highland Games

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Glasgow Highland Gathering - No Film. SHOTLIST: GV crowds at Ibrox Stadium. Highland dancing in progress. Tossing the caber. Pipe bands playing. "Catch-as-catch-can" wrestling. Sword dance being demonstrated. Highland Fling performed. Throwing 56lb weight over bar, one failure, another succeeds. One competitor (GE Mitchell) tosses the caber.

Local distribution only

For Scotland only instead of Item 2.

Keywords

Sport

Card file number

51997

Credits:

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

111

Story extras:

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