Colour: Irish Grand National

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2236
Date Released
10 Apr 1972
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Washing Feet Ceremony
  2. 2Bob-A-Job
  3. 3Stuntman Crashes into Sydney Harbour
  4. 440th Anniversary of Sydney Bridge
  5. 5Royal Easter Show
  6. 6Colour: Irish Grand National

Story

Story No. within this Issue
6 / 6
Section Title
Colour
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Irish Grand National - in Colour. DESCRIPTION: Fourteen horses took part in the Irish Grand National, the biggest racing event in the Irish racing calendar. Dimwit ridden by Matt Curran won the event by eight lengths, followed by Beggar’s Way and then Bahia Dorada. SHOTLIST: SV Irish Grand National trophy zoom back & pan to GV horses parading in paddock. LV ditto. LV crowds in grandstand. CU pan woman wearing short fur coat. SV pan No 3 The Dikler in paddock parading. LV bookies & tic-tack man. LV No 4 Dimwit in paddock parading. SV line of bookies. CU pan bookie to board showing prices. SV No 10 Bania Dorada parading. SV people watching. CU 2 angle shots bookies boards 10/0 and 20/0 bets. CU bookie taking money from punter. GV jockeys mounting. LV crowds watching. GV horses parading up course. SV Dimwit No 4 followed by No 5 Kinloch Brae. LV horses parading up course. SV No 14 Beggars Way. LV start of race, pan No 10 in lead with 2 others followed by Nos 6 & 13, they jump 1st fence pan to BV. CU pan No 9 with leaders including No 10 they all jump another fence. FV ditto. GV pan ditto with Nos 9 & 10 still with leaders No 6 & 7 followed by Nos 4,3 & 13. LV crowd watching. GV horses over penultimate fence with No 7 Veuve in lead - Veuve falls bringing down last year’s winner King’s Sprite No 8 and Dimwit No 4 goes into lead. SV pan as Dimwit races home to win, passes post. SV zoom back from presentation of trophy to crowds watching.
Keywords
Sport; Horse racing
Locations
Republic of Ireland
Card file number
98021
Credits:
Camera
George Fleishchmann
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Length of story (in feet)
209
Story extras:
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