Heron Bridge Captures the Chester Cup

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1092A
Date Released
11 May 1950
Date submitted
8 May 1950
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Trailer: WRNs Recruitment
  2. 2Royal Start for Bif
  3. 3Army Day
  4. 4Extremists Demonstrate
  5. 5Rain Mars West Indians’ Opening
  6. 6Naval Exercise in Arctic Waters
  7. 7Cycle Broncos
  8. *Heron Bridge Captures the Chester Cup
  9. *Rugby League Final
  10. *Sponge Fishing in the Mediterranean

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Chester Cup. SHOTLIST: KS. Horse passing camera - CU elevated GV crowds - raining hard. Bookies & crowds in rain, umbrellas up etc. Horses in paddock parade. Start of race. Panning shot of racing horses "Heron Bridge" goes on to win followed by "Father Thames". Lead in & Tommy Burns dismounts, his face covered in mud.
Local distribution only
For Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds only instead of Item 5.
Keywords
Sport; Horse racing
Locations
Cheshire; Chester
Card file number
53703
Credits:
Camera
George Richardson
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Camera
James Humphries
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Length of story (in feet)
164
Story extras:
Film clip

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