Grasmere Sports
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 7
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Grasmere Sports. DESCRIPTION: The annual sporting event at Grasmere is one of the oldest in the British Isles. The locally flavoured events include Guide and Hound Racing and Cumberland wrestling. SHOTLIST: Side V hounds lined up for start of Hound Trail. Front V ditto. SV crowds with umbrellas. SV pan hounds racing away up field. SV pan man running up field, Senior Guides Race. SV BV ditto. SV pan crowds watching in rain. SV 2 man wrestling - Cumberland style - one falls. CU girl holding up umbrella - pouring with rain. SV pan No 7 and 17 running down hill to finish race. SV women sheltering under umbrellas. SV winner No 17 (FL Reeves) kissing his wife. SV pan hounds leaping over wall, 2 across road, 2 over another wall & race up field.
- Keywords
- Sport; Weather; Dog racing; Dogs; Athletics; Animals
- Locations
- Cumberland; United Kingdom
- Card file number
- 96280
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- John Braban
- Camera
- Keith Medley
- Length of story (in feet)
- 63
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