Pancake Race

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2542

Date Released

19 Feb 1978

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Cruft’s Dog Show
2. 2Baby Giraffe
3. 3President Sadat Visit
4. 4'Two Ronnies’ Investiture
5. 5Pancake Race
6. 6Ladies Slalom

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pancake Race. DESCRIPTION: Beauty Queens line up in Lincoln’s Inn Fields for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race. The winner was Miss Jamaica International, Dorothy Ottey. SHOTLIST: MS open top bus arriving with beauty queens on board. GV street. MS beauty queens leaving bus. MA jazz musicians playing on top of bus. MS beauty queens line up tossing pancakes. MS beauty queen No 5 Shauna Brown (Miss Scottish TV 1977). MS No 1 Dinah May (Miss Great Britain 1976) tossing pancake. MS pan beauty queens. MS John Blake (Chef of the Gloucester Hotel) and marshal firing starting gun. MS girls running. LS ditto. LS Lynn Perry (Miss ATV 1977) sits up after falling over. MCU winner No 8 Dorothy Ottey (Miss Jamaica International).

Keywords

Women; Customs and traditions; Competitions

Locations

London; Lincolns Inn Fields

Card file number

78/18

Credits:

Commentator

Leonard Martin

Camera

Richard Day

Length of story (in feet)

71

Story extras:

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