Wrestling - Olympic Preview
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wrestling - Olympic Preview. DESCRIPTION: Britain’s first International Tournament between amateur wrestlers from 3 countries took place at Manchester’s Belle Vue. It was between Japan, the United States and England. Pictures show the Heavyweight bout between Merrill Solowin of Toledo University and Dennis McNamara, British Heavyweight Champion. The American won. British Featherweight Champion, Albert Aspen, was matched against Osamu Watanabe. Aspen was well and truly over-powered by the Japanese. The Middleweight bout saw reigning British champion, Hill trying to get the better of Camilleri of the US Air Force. But Camilleri had the upper hand. Convincing winners were the Japanese, America took second place. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS start of Heavyweight bout Solowin V McNamara. CU spectator. MS wrestling - Solowin falls out and climbs back into ring. CU spectator. MS fight ends - Solowin (America) the winner. CU spectators. MS Osamu Watanabe (Japan) V Albert Aspen (GB) in Featherweight bout. MS referee moving into position on mat. MS spectators. MS J Hill (GB) V Camilleri (USA). Spectator. MS fight in progress. MS spectators applaud. MLS Japanese referee lifts the winner’s arm. Camilleri. Winners: Heavyweight: Solowin (USA), Featherweight: Watanabe (Japan), Middleweight: Camilleri (USA).
- Keywords
- Sport; Air force
- Locations
- Manchester; Belle Vue
- Footage sources
- 5 Cities Film
- Card file number
- 86776
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 158
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