Learning on ScreenFred Winter
Series
- Series Name
- British Sporting Personalities
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: A film portrait of Fred Winter, one of the greatest steeplechase jockeys of all time. Son of a famous jockey, Fred started riding at the age of four; now in his thirties, his outstanding career, interrupted only by military service and two bad accidents, has seen him winner of the Grand National, twice winner in Britain of the Champion Hurdle, and four times Champion Jockey. Sequences show him in action during races, at home with his wife and children, in consultation with a trainer, and explaining how a rider can get the best out of his horse.
- Keywords
- Horse racing
- Written sources
- The National Archives INF 6 /850
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
Films From Britain Catalogue 1964-1965, p.258 - used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 923/5
- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- British Pathe Ltd.
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Colonial Office
- Sponsor
- Commonwealth Relations Office
- Sponsor
- Foreign Office
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
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