Vim and Vigour!

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

578

Date Released

30 Jun 1932

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

NoS Summary - Sports display by young people - athletics, gymnastics, acrobatics.
British Pathe synopsis: "Filmed at Polytechnic, Chiswick" "It takes the young stars to show us really concentrated vim and vigour - especially when there’s a prize in the offing - " L/S of a school sports field with a group of youngsters having a running race. Parents watch the race. M/S of them running through the finishing tape. A girls race follows. One girl gives up and walks. The camera follows her to the end. "This is where the sack is willingly taken - " Older girls - teenagers - have a sack race. "Tempted with an apple - again - !" Women try to bite apples which are suspended on strings. C/U of some of the women. "Meanwhile, Adam is enjoying himself "in the mass." High angle shot of synchronised exercise routine. A couple of hundred men in white exercise in unison. Various shots of the routine. They are in the middle of a large sports field or park. "On the bars - " Men do gymnastic somersaults using the "bars". Acrobatic routine on the high bar. "Slow-stuff, too - " We see the vaults in slow motion. Then the bar exercises. " - And on the mat!" Men do various somersaults, rolls, gymnastic and acrobatic lifts etc. Two men performing a routine together.

Keywords

Sport; Athletics; Physical fitness and training; Youth

Locations

London; Chiswick; England

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.241
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP241
National Film Archive Catalogue

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