Movietone Sporting Calendar

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1126A

Date Released

4 Jan 1951

Date submitted

2 Jan 1951

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1For Schoolboys Only
2. 2Robinson - Ko Specialist
3. 3Hut Town Burnt Out
4. 4A Strange Invention
5. 5Movietone Sporting Calendar
6. 6Rovers Victory
7. 7Launch of Clan Sutherland

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Movietone’s Sporting Calendar. DESCRIPTION: A comic look at sporting events and Britain’s lack of success. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Montage - Footballers, athletics, tennis players & cricketers in action. SCU Derek Stiles looking through field glasses, takes them down from eyes. WG Grace surrounded by fans walks into camera, with cricket bat. LS cricket field, players in action, crowds in background look on. CU batsman & wicket keeper. MCC & West Indians, West Indians seated in pavilion. Autograph hunters get bat signed. Cricketer - MCC runs to boundary for ball, crowds in background. Australian team walk onto field. MS players in fore & crowds in background. Old style (ancient) tennis men & women play at Wimbledon. Early 1900s playing doubles. Singles game in progress. CU heads following game - side to side. CU modern tennis players, American. Dog amid crowds, heads turning following ball during tennis. Pan of players. SCU cameras on top of car, turning quickly following play. CU type - man looks sad. GV football pitch, players in action, crowds look on. SCU players dribble ball. CU players around goal. Ball into net. SCU man in crowd, his hat & hair stand on end. MS English football team return from Rio, on steps from airliner. CU ditto. CU athletes get ready to start. CU athletes running. CU type - man. MS men hurdling. Cross country race, GV, runners downhill. GVs walking race in progress. SCU pole vaulting. MS Russian throwing discus. Another putting the shot. Woman putting the shot. CU Cup presented to a man. Crowd shot, all wearing glasses. Cricket ground, people put up umbrellas etc. because of rain. Guardsman (Horse-guard) with umbrella over his head. Pole vault fellow continues to gain height. Crowd shot. Clock. Hands of clock going backwards. Tennis shot. Still - WG Grace. Ditto CU WG Grace.

Keywords

Sport; Mass media; Weather; Aviation; Athletics; Football; Animals; Cameramen; Newsreels

Card file number

54814

Credits:

Editor

Charles A. Ridley

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

290

Story extras:

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