Racing Outlook

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1483
Date Released
4 Nov 1957
Date submitted
29 Oct 1957
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1New Town Honoured
  2. 2Cyprus Demonstration
  3. 3Halloween Ball
  4. 4A Big Baby
  5. 5Balloon Launches Rocket
  6. 6Racing Outlook

Story

Story No. within this Issue
6 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Greyhound Racing. DESCRIPTION: A greyhound race in Germany, it was the final race of 1957 for the Rhineland Westphalia district. The climax of this year’s obstacle meeting in Czechoslovakia, was the sixty-eighth Grand Pardubice Steeplechase. SHOTLIST: Shots of dogs (Afghans) on course. Mechanical hare starts. Shots of dogs leaving starting box and racing round. Shots of dogs racing. CU dog on a lead watching. Various shots of dogs fighting. STEEPLECHASE - CARD 72009 General shots of horses jumping fence, some lose their riders and fall. Shots of horses approaching the Taxis ditch, one horse refuses and goes back. Many riders fall in water. Horse refuses to jump it again. Horse walks through ditch and gets rider soaking wet.
Keywords
Sport; Horse racing; Dog racing; Dogs; Animals
Locations
Germany; Czechoslovakia; Westphalia; Lippstadt
Footage sources
Germany
Card file number
72014
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
128
Story extras:
Film clip

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