Cross Country Championships

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2165A

Date Released

3 Dec 1970

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Cross Country Championships
2. 2Eton Wall Game
3. 3Cat Club Show
4. 4Bea Personality Girl
5. 5Premiere of ‘Scrooge’
6. 6Velasquez Auction

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cross Country Championships. DESCRIPTION: More than two hundred entrants for the London Cross Country Championships and a stiff six-mile course round Hampstead Heath. Prevailing conditions make for plenty of wet feet. SHOTLIST: GV runners limber up. SV tracking shot ditto. LV start of race, mass of runners pan towards & past heading for forest. GV pan runners through forest. GV feet splashing in soggy ground. SV runners splashing. GV as they run over crest of hill. SV runners down hill towards. SV pan 2 runners. GV runners towards through forest. CU feet splashing in puddle. LV pan AG Taylor No A in lead, P Fagan No 61 running 2nd. SV pan other runners. LV towards John Macnamara now in lead. CU girl watching. SV towards No A and No 61. Angle shot finish sign. LV pan John Macnamara No H comes in to win. SV timekeepers. SV group shot Macnamara 1st, Fagan 2nd, Taylor 3rd. CU Macnamara.

Keywords

Sport; Environment; Athletics

Locations

London; United Kingdom

Card file number

96579

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Norman Fisher

Camera

Reginald William Smith

Length of story (in feet)

134

Story extras:

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