Learning on ScreenThoroughbreds for the World
Series
- Series Name
- This Modern Age
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: Begins with Lord Derby at home with his horses, trainer and stud groom, then on to famous race horses, from the Godolphin Barb to Airborne, and from foalhood to maturity. The emphasis is on British racehorses and racing as export. The film goes into the care and breeding of the horses in some detail, including their movement when riderless and the length of their pedigrees.
- Researcher Comments
- Trade show in 10 January 1947.
- Keywords
- Horse racing; Horses
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
Monthly Film Bulletin Vol.14 No.157 January 1947, p15.
Documentary News Letter Vol.6 No.56 April-May 1947, p89.
Enticknap, Leo. The Non-Fiction Film in Britain, 1945-1951 unpublished PhD thesis p253.
- Credits:
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- Support services
- George Ivan Smith
- Editor
- George Ivan Smith
- Production Co.
- This Modern Age, Ltd.
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
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- 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).
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