The Grand National

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1555
Date Released
23 Mar 1959
Date submitted
21 Mar 1959
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Grivas in Athens
  2. 2The Grand National

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 2
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Grand National - 1959. DESCRIPTION: Movietone’s record of the great Steeplechase, run at Aintree. SHOTLIST: GV parading ring. LS horses being paraded. CU pan same - ‘Tiberetta’. Same ‘Mr What’. CU bookmaker (4). TS parade. MS ‘Mr What’ pan to ‘Done Up’. MS ‘Oxo’. MS ‘Wyndburgh’ crowd (4). Start (3). FS 1st fence - horses fall. Tracking shot - race. Crowd (3). Slow motion at Becher’s Brook. FS Canal Turn. Tracking shot race (3). FS taking 14th fence. TS pan - horses take Water Jump. BS horses. Tracking shot race. Slow Motion - Becher’s. BS horses over camera - same. Pan race. Horses take jump (2). Tracking shot jumps. FS ‘Oxo’ ahead of ‘Wyndburgh’ at last fence. GV towards finish. MS pan horses. Longer shot ‘Oxo’ wins. MS horses canter in. MS ‘Oxo’ being led through crowd. FS pan same. ‘Oxo’ with owner.
Keywords
Sport; Horse racing; Gambling; Newsreels
Locations
Aintree; England
Footage sources
Movietone
Pathe
Card file number
76719
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
492
Story extras:
Film clip

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