Sport & Sporting Personalities: Walking

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1153A

Date Released

12 Jul 1951

Date submitted

9 Jul 1951

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Royal Visitors at Abbey Wedding
2. 2Sport & Sporting Personalities: Golf
3. 3Sport & Sporting Personalities: Tennis
4. 4Sport & Sporting Personalities: Henley
5. 5Sport & Sporting Personalities: Walking
6. 6Oil Crisis Scenes
7. 7Berlin Parade for Field Marshal Slim
8. 8Paris Celebrates 2,000 Years
9. 9Turpin - World Champion
10. *Leeds Children’s Day

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 9

Section Title

Sport & Sporting Personalities

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sport & Sporting Personalities - Brighton-London Walk. DESCRIPTION: Marathon walk from London to Brighton and back. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Line-up walkers. Croydon. Start of race, walking through crowded streets. Passing over Westminster Bridge, turning round at Big Ben, & back over Westminster Bridge. Night shot passing through Crawley. Signpost indicating direction to Brighton. SCU rear view of walkers in headlights of car. Daylight shots approaching Brighton. No 35, Stirling-Wakeley, through Brighton & starting on return journey. Frenchman - CU walking still on way to Brighton No 35 arriving at Croydon & winning, passes through crowds, does not stop walking.

Keywords

Sport; Buildings and structures

Card file number

55748

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Camera

Martin Gray

Length of story (in feet)

131

Story extras:

Film clip

Movietone IconMovietone

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

AP Archive

Email

info@aparchive.com

Web

http://www.movietone.com

Phone

+44 (0)20 7482 7482

Series held

View all series held by AP Archive