Springboks

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2110

Date Released

10 Nov 1969

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Springboks V Oxford. DESCRIPTION: The South African Tourists open their tour under Siege conditions at Twickenham. Four hundred police unable to silence the dissenting voices. The shadow of Apartheid casts a gloom over the match in spite of some excellent rugby - and a win for Oxford by two penalty goals to one. SHOTLIST: 2 shots protestors outside ground with banners. 2 shots banners ‘Apartheid & boycott’. 2 shots police search spectators outside. LAS pan teams out. MS teams kick off. MS scrum zoom out player kicks touch. MS line out. GV crowd. MS Springbok kicks penalty. GV scrum. MCU ditto. GV Oxford scrum half to fly half. GV Oxford score penalty. GV loose play. MS crowd. MS line out followed by scrum & play. HAS kicker. LAS kicker scores penalty for Oxford. Crowd with arms raised. HAS police taking away demonstrator. MS police pulling person from crowd. MS police & demonstrator. MCU police and crowd. MS man running away from police. MLS man runs towards goal post. MS man surrounded by police at foot of rugby post. Teams applaud each other at end of game. Laidlaw shouldered off.

Keywords

Sport; Demonstrations; Crime

Locations

Twickenham; United Kingdom

Card file number

95341

Credits:

Camera: Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

221

Story extras:

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