Eton Wall Game

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2584

Date Released

10 Dec 1978

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Eton Wall Game. DESCRIPTION: The Eton Wall Game has a set of rules which are uniquely its own, the two teams - boys from the school - are known as ‘the Collegians’ and ‘the Oppidans’. In the scrum that is most of the game it is rare to see the ball and even more unusual is the scoring of a goal. SHOTLIST: GV exterior Eton College. MS students. GV ditto. MCU students climb over brick wall PB as students come over wall. MCU students jumps down from wall and another appears over the top. Various ditto. MS chalk mark on tree. MS garden wall. GV students by wall Eton school in background. MS tilt down from boys looking over wall to other boys playing Eton Wall Game - with scrummages by wall. Pan ball to boy by marked tree trunk. MS crowd. 3 shots scrum by wall. MS boys watching from top of wall. LS ditto. 3 shots scrum by wall. Pan students running. MS boys watching from top of wall. MS 6 shots scrum by wall pan ball PB end of scrum. MS end of game Collegians win 3 - 0 against the Oppidans (students who live out of college). MS teams congratulate each other.

Keywords

Sport; Customs and traditions

Locations

Eton; Berkshire

Card file number

78/187

Credits:

Commentator: Leonard Martin
Camera: Richard Day

Length of story (in feet)

194

Story extras:

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