Bouncing Time for Muscle Man

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1241

Date Released

16 Mar 1953

Date submitted

12 Mar 1953

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Spring Hair Styles
2. 2News Briefs: Air Crash Rescue
3. 3News Briefs: Monty’s Conference
4. 4News Briefs: Stalin’s Berlin Tribute
5. 5News Briefs: East Refugees
6. 6News Briefs: Transvaal Scottish
7. 7News Briefs: Australian Reinforcements
8. 8News Briefs: Korea Strafe
9. 9Bouncing Time for Muscle Man
10. 10Grand National Hopes

Story

Story No. within this Issue

9 / 10

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bouncing Time for Muscle Men. DESCRIPTION: At the Sports Palace in Paris, Red Indian meets Frenchman in mortal combat. This wrestling match included a novel version of Knees up Mother Brown. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Indian & Frenchman wrestling, also the referee gets into trouble.

Keywords

Sport; Curiosities

Locations

Paris

Footage sources

France

Card file number

58714

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

50

Story extras:

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