Grasmere: Lakeland Sports

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2256A

Date Released

31 Aug 1972

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Grasmere: Lakeland Sports. DESCRIPTION: The annual Grasmere Sports, in England’s Lakeland. Events such as the Hound Trail, Guides Race and traditional Lakeland Wrestling. SHOTLIST: GV owners with dogs before trials. SV bookie. SV crowds watching. SV bookie. GV pan dogs race away at start of trial. LV towards dogs racing towards road, pan as they jump wall cross road and jump wall on other side. GV men running up hill in guides race. SV pan as No 10 runs past up hill. SV 2 wrestlers, they both go down, get up and shake hands. SCU man with binoculars sitting watching. LV towards runners in guides race running down to finish, pan with No 2 in lead (Tony Sedgwick - New Hutton). LV towards and pan No 10 (P Bland - Staveley) running down in 2nd race. LV crowds lining course. SCU No 2 at finish. LV pan winning dog Torchsinger coming down final slope, trained by Albert Watson owned by Harry Buchanan. LV trainers waving dogs in. GV dogs racing down final stretch to finish. SV trainers waving in dogs from finishing line. LV pan Torchsinger races in to win. CU Torchsinger.

Keywords

Customs and traditions

Locations

United Kingdom

Card file number

98417

Credits:

Camera: Keith Medley
Commentator: Leonard Martin

Length of story (in feet)

116

Story extras:

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