New Centre for Sport

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1833

Date Released

20 Jul 1964

Date submitted

13 Jul 1964

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1New Centre for Sport
2. 2Awards for Youth
3. 3Laying the Ghost
4. 4New Rig for Victory
5. 5He’s Done It

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Centre for Sport. DESCRIPTION: The National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace cost 2 1/2 million pounds - but it’s worth every penny. There is an eight lane racing pool with electronic timing. A new diving pool and a third pool for teaching beginners. Special observation panels make it easy for coaches to observe faults in a driver’s under-water technique. It contains facilities for every conceivable event - including a fine cycle track. Unfortunately it has opened too late to have much affect on results at Tokyo, but its full worth should be proved by the time the next Olympics are held. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV indoor stadium. MS Duke of Edinburgh arriving. MS stadium building. MLS the Duke walking. Pan same walks to building. GV interior athletes gathered in stadium hall. LS Duke speaks. LS athletes. GV same. GV interior athletes in stadium. Pan GV swimming pool. LS diving board. GV underwater swimmers. CU Duke looks through observation post. CU swimmer. Pan Duke to boxing hall. GV hall for gymnastics. Pan athletes hostel. GV outdoor stadium. LS sprinters. MS coach talks to athletes. GV pole vaulting. Pan cycle racing. GV tennis court. LS netball match. GV same. CU same. MS stadium. GV same.

Locations

London; Crystal Palace

Footage sources

Royal Rota

Card file number

88598

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

128

Story extras:

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