Running of the 128th Grand National. Colour Special

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2236A
Date Released
13 Apr 1972
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Running of the 128th Grand National. Colour Special

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Story No. within this Issue
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Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Running of the 128th Grand National - in Colour. DESCRIPTION: The 1972 Grand National - a big field of 42 runners take part in this gruelling annual event. Movietone follows the demanding race from the rails. The winner WELL TO DO closely followed in second place by GAY TRIP, with a tie for third place between BLACK SECRET and GENERAL SYMONS. SHOTLIST: Movietone Main Title. Zoom out crowd in stand at Aintree (wet). LS stand - people with umbrellas. MCU woman with transparent brolly. MLS bookies - taking bets under brollies. MS bookie. MCU girl in mini skirt. CU tic-tack man. CU girl in hot pants. CU Mrs Mirabelle Topham leaves house with Grand National presentation trophy. CU trophy. GV paddock. LS jockey AL Moore mounts Miss Hunter No 34. LS jockey JG Taffy Davies mounts Twigairy No 7. GV jockey (Richard Evans on No 26 Permit) mounting. GV horses around paddock. MS No 8 Fortina’s Palace - Jeff King jockey and No 9 The Pantheon (ridden by Ken White). GV parade along course of horses. MLS No 1 L’Escargot (ridden by Tommy Carberry) pan to No 2 Gay Trip (ridden by Terry Biddlecombe) pan to No 3 Black Secret. GV parade of horses, centre back to start. LS crowd. CU pan with binoculars. LA race starts. TS race in progress over jump No 1 and 2. CU slow motion horse 17 Bright Willow, No 25 General Symons. CU No 17 & another over jump 3. TS race in progress. CU ditto. CU horse’s head. LS horses over jump 4 jockey (Richard Pitman) off No 28 Lime Street. CU horse’s head Miss Hunter. CU Moore. CU head of Miss Hunter. TS horses over jump 5 following them with leaders 39 Fair Vulgan (ridden by Macer Gifford) and Miss Hunter No 34. GV horses over Becher’s Brook Nos 39, 34, 33 Gay Buccaneer in lead then 3 horses fall. TS horses over jump 7 pan to No 39 in lead Fair Vulgan towards Canal Turn. GV Canal Turn, No 32 Nom de Guerre falls, No 19 stray horse falls Saggart’s Choice. GV horses racing towards jump 9 Valentine’s Brook, over at 363’ with 39 and 34 in lead, pan with leader as he goes over next jump. CU Miss Hunter over jump 14. LV as rest of field over jump 14. CU looking through binoculars. GV horses over Chair jump (15 with 39 & 34, 3 and 17 in lead with others) pan as they race towards water jump 16, a stray horse jumps barrier and off course in front of leader, rest of field over jump. SV horses round bend - end of 1st time round. [reel 1 - 305 seconds]. Reel 2 - horses over jump 17, leaders 39, 3, 27, 7, 25. CU slow motion horse’s feet No 3. SV horses over jump 18. CU slow motion legs No 3 pan up to jockey and over jump 19. LV rest of horses over 19. CU slow motion 5, 27, 2. LV racing towards beeches. CU pan slow motion jockeys. SV horses over jump 21, with No 3 in lead. GV horses over beeches brook 8, 24, 39 fall. SV pan tracking shot as they go over 23. CU jockey Graham Thorner on No 20 Well To Do. GV horses over Canal Turn, No 38 The Pooka falls tracking shots horses approaching Valentines and over, Nos 3, 25, 20 and 2 in lead. Low angle from Valentines horses racing away. SV group including No 3. CU Nos 3 and 25 over jump slow motion. CU No 3 jockey. GV horses over another jump, followed by No 3 in lead with 25 close behind. GV Nos 20, 3, 25 and 2 over last jump No 30. GV mass crowds watching. GV as they race towards finish in following order 20, 2, 3 & 25. No 20 passes post. SV pan winner into unsaddling enclosure. Angle shot ditto. SV woman patting steaming horse. LV winning horse Well To Do. CU sash reading World Blue Ribbon of Steeplechasing. CU Well To Do. [PART 2 - 189 SECONDS].
Keywords
Sport; Horse racing
Locations
Liverpool; Aintree
Card file number
98034
Credits:
Camera
Cedric Baynes
Camera
Denis White
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Camera
Gordon Limb
Camera
Keith Medley
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Camera
Norman Fisher
Camera
P. Simmon
Camera
Ray Gallard
Camera
Stan Goozee
Length of story (in feet)
743
Story extras:
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