Training for the Channel

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1577A

Date Released

27 Aug 1959

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Soccer Starts
2. 2Training for the Channel
3. 3Mini-Cars on Show
4. 4Kariba Dam Report
5. 5Rockefeller Wedding
6. 6The Princess in Australia
7. *Edinburgh Festival

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Training for the Channel. DESCRIPTION: Greta Anderson has been limbering up at Margate. Twice already she’s won the cross-Channel swim. Winner of many swimming races, she holds the Women’s cross-Channel record of ten hours, fifty-nine minutes. SHOTLIST: MS Greta Anderson training. MS swimming bath. MS to CU. Greta Anderson dives in pool. Under water shot. Greta Anderson swimming. MS Greta Anderson eating meal. MS Greta Anderson dives in sea. CU Greta Anderson swimming (2).

Keywords

Environment; Competitions

Locations

England; Margate

Card file number

77973

Credits:

Camera

David W. Samuelson

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

60

Story extras:

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