Starting Stalls Make Turf History
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Starting Stalls Make Turf History. DESCRIPTION: Pictures show the first ever starting stall ever used for a race in this country - before the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket. SHOTLIST: MS pan rider No 3 out of parade ring (Lester Piggott). GV start of race by rising gate method. GV ditto. GV horse being caught as gate rises. GV start of race using starting stalls. GV start of race using car on same principle but for a running start. GV starting stalls at Newmarket. LS ditto. MLS pan ditto. MS one of stalls. MS official closing stall doors. CU official pressing button to open doors. MS doors opening. MS official closing doors. GV horses into stalls. CU man looking through binoculars. LS pan start of Chesterfield Stakes from stalls in slow motion. LS Lester Piggott riding home winner. MS pan Lester Piggott No 3 into unsaddling enclosure.
- Keywords
- Motor racing; Newsreels
- Locations
- Newmarket
- Footage sources
- Library
- Card file number
- 89912
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 152
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