Movietone’s Sport Reports: Rugby League Final

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1194A

Date Released

24 Apr 1952

Date submitted

21 Apr 1952

Stories in this Issue:

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 8

Section Title

Movietone’s Sport Reports

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sport Reports - Rugby League Final. DESCRIPTION: Workington Town beat Featherstone Rovers when they met in the Rugby League Final before seventy-three thousand fans at Wembley. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Crowd shots. Ditto. Toss-up. Kick-off, Featherstone penalised, Risman scores for Workington. General play. Lawrenson intercepts, & runs nearly length of pitch to score at try. Risman scores from conversion. Evans manages to score for Featherstone, just over line. Eden presents Cup. SCU winning team with Cup, captain shouldered, the lid of the Cup falls off.

Local distribution only

Not shown in Scotland, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle or Leeds.

Keywords

Sport; Politics and government; Ceremonies

Locations

Wembley Stadium

Card file number

57079

Credits:

Camera: George Richardson
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Martin Gray
Camera: Montague G. Benson
Camera: Paul Wyand

Length of story (in feet)

114

Story extras:

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