Irish Derby - Big Day for Bing

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1882A

Date Released

1 Jul 1965

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Irish Derby Big Day for Bing. DESCRIPTION: The Irish Sweeps Derby at Curragh. The winning horse is Meadow Court - the horse in which Bing Crosby has a third share ownership. SHOTLIST: GV stands at Curragh. MS women wearing fancy clothes. CU woman’s hat. CU ditto. MLS crowds walking about in rain. MS Bing Crosby sheltering in doorway. CU Bing Crosby. MLS Meadow Court in parade ring. GV parade ring. MS Western Wind being paraded and Indian Summer. Name board showing runners for Irish Derby. GV start of race. LS pan race in progress with Baljour, Ballymarais and Scrapani in lead. Top shot pan Meadow Court (ridden by Lester Piggott) winning Irish Derby. MS crowd. Zoom in Meadow Court in winners enclosure.

Keywords

Sport; Horse racing

Locations

Republic of Ireland

Card file number

89855

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Vincent Corcoran

Length of story (in feet)

138

Story extras:

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