Getting There

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

628

Date Released

15 Jun 1933

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - Two sports are contrasted - mountaineering and speed boat racing.
British Pathe synopsis: "To some "getting there" is to reach the summit of Mt. Hood, the 11,000 feet trifle in Western America." L/S of large amount of climbers walking towards the camera. M/S of the walkers as they make their way up a snowy mountainside in single file. "The view (and the exercise) is the only reward for the sportsman -" Panning shot of the landscape under cloud. "Later on they’ll tell you how they climbed it - about this speed ..." Fast motion footage of the climbers seemingly rushing up the hillside. "Someone’s telling fibs," said our Cameraman. "This is how they did it!" Slightly slow footage of the climbers. "If you like the thrill of speedier sport, try racing the waves - " L/Ss of speedboats moving towards the camera. "From an airship you get a bird’s eye view - " Aerial shots of a harbour with lots of boats. "We hate to see anything get ahead of our Cameraman, so here goes - a two-mile a minute seaplane idea of the sportsmen below - " Seaplane follows two speedboats, catching up with them. As the plane passes over the top of one, a man in the boat waves. Other shots of the speedboats racing around a buoy from the plane.

Keywords

Sport; Ships and boats; Competitions

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.263
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP263
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name: British Film Institute (BFI)
Email: For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk
Web: http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
Phone: 020 7255 1444
Fax: 020 7580 7503
Address: 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN
Notes: The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
Series held: View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)

Name: British Pathe Ltd
Email: info@britishpathe.com
Web: https://www.britishpathe.com/
Phone: 0207 665 8340
Address: 3.29 Canterbury Court
1-3 Brixton Road
London
SW9 6DE
Notes: Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
Series held: View all series held by British Pathe Ltd

Record Stats