The St Leger

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1058

Date Released

12 Sep 1949

Date Other

Sep 1949

Stories in this Issue:

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: St Leger 1949. DESCRIPTION: The last classic of the season, at Doncaster is won by Michael Beary on Ridge Wood, SHOTLIST: Various shots of the crowds. MCU of bookies. Various shots of people looking at their cards. Shots of Johnny Longden coming out of building. Shot of Gordon Richards coming out. Shot of Aga Khan. TPS of all the runners. MCU of the favourite "Swallow Tail", "Krakatao", "Dusty Devil", "Ridge Wood", and Johnny Longden on "Mon Chatelain" and "Lone Eagle". Shots of racegoers looking through their binoculars. MCU of the Princess Royal looking through her binoculars. Shots of the line up. Horses running towards camera. LS running. Various shots of the race. CU of men with binoculars. LS of the horses coming down the final straight. Michael Beary riding the winner "Ridge Wood". Shots of "Ridge Wood"in the winners enclosure.

Keywords

Horse racing

Locations

Doncaster

Card file number

52520

Credits:

Camera: David W. Samuelson
Camera: James Humphries
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Martin Gray
Camera: Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

240

Story extras:

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