Xx Olympic Games Highlights

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2257A

Date Released

7 Sep 1972

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1. 1Xx Olympic Games Highlights

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1 / 1

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MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Xx Olympic Games Highlights. DESCRIPTION: Movietone presents some of the highlights of the 1972 Olympic Games now in progress in Munich. SHOTLIST: Zoom out from tower of Olympic building. TS artificial white white water canoe course at Augsburg. MS Raymond Calverly (GB) turns canoe over and then rolls up. MCU Siegbert Horn (GDR) on course (x2). CU man with camera and woman in crowd. MS men jump in to rescue a double kayak in difficulties. MCU Walter Hofmann and Amend Rolf-Dieter (GDR) winning the Canadian pairs (x2). MS New Zealand rowing eight winning gold in front of America, Russia and Germany. GV NZ boat crossing finish. MS girls with medals on cushions. GV NZ team presented with gold medals. CU Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) winner of pole vault, he runs and over vault. GV Ludvik Danek throwing in mens discus. TS Ruth Fuchs (GDR) throws javelin. GV pan with Heide Rosendahl (WDR) in long jump. MS head on of her jumping. MS start of the women’s 100 metres. TS of race and slow motion to finish with winner Renate Stecher (GDR) and 2nd Raelene Boyle (AUS). MCU starter fires gun. TS start of mens 100 metres. Pan with runner slow motion of race, finish, winner is Valeri Borzov (USSR) leads from Robert Taylor (USA) and Lennox Miller (JAM). CU Borzov after race. GV start of mens 400 metres hurdles. TS of race that includes David Hemery (GB). MS Hemery over hurdle. TS finish John Akii-Bua (Uganda) wins, 2nd Ralph Mann (USA) and 3rd Hemery. GV start of mens 800 metres. TS race. CU man and woman in crowd. MS runners. GV finish of race with David Wottle (USA) coming through to take gold. CU Wottle. GV start of 20k walk. MS roof of Olympic Stadium tilt down to walkers on road. GV walkers during race (x2). TS crowd in stadium. MS Peter Frankel (GDR) wins gold. MS Princess Anne talking with two women. GV rider starts three day event cross country course. GV another rider on course. GV Horst Karsten (WDR) into water jump and falls off (x2). LS rider comes off. MS Duke of Edinburgh with officials. GV Richard Meade (GB) past at speed. MS Kato (Japan) on parallel bars. GV Nakayama (Japan) on rings. MS Tsukahara (Japan) on horizontal bars. MS Olga Korbut (USSR) on horizontal bars (x2). Karin Janz (GDR) - winner of gold medal - on horizontal bars (x3). TS swimming pool start of womens 100 metres free style. MS underwater shot of competitors. TS finish of race. MCU girls with medals gold Sandra Neilson (USA), silver Shirley Babashoff (USA) and bronze Shane Gould (AUS). TS Beverly Whitfield (AUS) winning 200 metres free style. MS Ulrika Knape (SWE) makes high dive. GV gold medallist in mens spring board diving Vladimir Vasin (USSR). TS Nobutu Taguchi (Japan) wins mens 100m breaststroke. MCU Mark Spitz (USA) in 200m butterfly. MS underwater shot of turn. TS Spitz slow motion. TS Spitz wins. GV Willy Brandt applauds. GV Mark Spitz receives gold medal.

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Sport

Card file number

98418B

Credits:

Commentator

Leonard Martin

Length of story (in feet)

759

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