The World’s Greatest Sporting Contest

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1190A

Date Released

27 Mar 1952

Date submitted

20 Mar 1952

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Grand National - World’s Greatest Sporting Contest. (Cut By Mr Wiggins). DESCRIPTION: Aintree is preparing for the great day - the Grand National on April the Fifth - and it’s preparing for the hundreds of thousands who’ll be there to see the World’s greatest steeplechase. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Elevated MS empty paddock. Empty grandstand, crowded grandstand. Empty paddock, horses parade round paddock. At the start - empty. Start on actual day. First jump - empty. First jump horses going over. Empty jumps mix to horses over jumps. Last jump - empty, horses over last jump. Elevated GV empty part of course where horse is led in. Mix to horses being led in crowds around. All the ‘empty’ scenes mix to the scenes of the actual day.

Keywords

Sport; Horse racing; Buildings and structures; Newsreels

Footage sources

Library

Card file number

56954

Credits:

Camera: James Humphries
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

101

Story extras:

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