Learning on ScreenRussians Hammer England
Series
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- British Movietone News
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Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Boxing - England V Russia. DESCRIPTION: Amateur boxing at Wembley, and let’s hope it wasn’t a fore-taste of England’s performance in the Empire Games later this month! Grigoriev, fighting Peter Bennyworth in the Bantamweight bout, scored one of Russia’s 8 victories. We won only two. Heavyweight Len Hobbs, a crane-driver from Battersea, was no match for Abramov, ex-European champion and six-times Russian titleholder. The Englishman went down in the first round, and the Russian scored a rather ponderous points advantage. Now, the Lightweight fireworks of Russian champion Nikonorov against Brian Whelan, who beat McTaggart in this year’s ABA Championships. Whelan went on to score one of England’s two successes. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV ring - bantamweight contest between Grigoriev and Bennyworth (6 shots) bantamweight contest. CU crowd. MS waiting for result - Russian hand goes up. CU Len Hobbs comes out for the heavyweight contest (2 shots) contest. LS Len Hobbs goes down. CU crowd (7 shots) Hobbs gets up - contest carries on. CU crowd. CU Nikonorov comes out for the lightweight contest (3 shots) lightweight contest. CU crowd. MS waiting for result - England hand goes up.
- Keywords
- Boxing
- Locations
- London; England; Wembley
- Footage sources
- Movietone
- Card file number
- 85420
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 164
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