Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Grasmere Games

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

429

Date Released

23 Aug 1937

Date submitted

18 Aug 1937

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fashions: Description by Beryl de Querton
2. 2Reports: Japan brings up reinforcements
3. 3Reports: Crystal Palace in flames again
4. 4Reports: Blast the road
5. 5Reports: Elephant power in Ceylon
6. 6Reports: Aussie girls can shoot
7. 7Army: Tommy Atkins new military plans is a bit of all right says Carl Bernard
8. 8Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Boxing - Peter Kane playing bowls
9. 9Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Boxing - Farr and Louis
10. 10Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Children’s Regatta
11. 11Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Trawlers Race
12. 12Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Grasmere Games

Story

Story No. within this Issue

12 / 12

Section Title

Sports: Reported by Alan Howland

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Grasmere Games. SHOTLIST: Close shots of wrestling bouts. Guides race starts, and up hill. Another shot of the wrestlers. Shot of pole vaulting. Finish of Guides race. Wrestlers still wrestling. Speeded up shots of this.

Keywords

Sport; Athletics; Newsreels

Footage sources

Local

Card file number

5615

Credits:

Commentator

Alan Howland

Length of story (in feet)

47

Story extras:

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