How Your Tennis Racket is Made - The Frame is Straight Grained Rent Ash, Free from Knots

Series

Series Name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue

Issue No.

1369

Date Released

5 May 1924

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Smiling Duchess at Guildford - Accompanied by the Duke of York Opens New Wing of Royal Surrey County Hospital
2. 2Cricket Begins - Scotland V Yorkshire at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow
3. 3How Your Tennis Racket is Made - The Frame is Straight Grained Rent Ash, Free from Knots

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

MV man shaping frame of racket. [SUBTITLE]: FIXING THE WEDGE AND COMPLETING THE HANDLE MV man fixes wedge, puts racket in vice, fits other bits to it. [2ND SUBTITLE]: DRILLING THE HOLES FOR STRINGING MV drilling holes. [3RD SUBTITLE]: STRENGTHENING THE SHOULDERS WITH SURGICAL AND STRING BINDING MV man binds tape then string round frame. [4TH SUBTITLE]: STRINGING WITH FINEST CAT-GUT MV stringing. [5TH SUBTITLE]: POLISHING AND EXAMINING MLV various men polishing and examining. [6TH SUBTITLE]: IT LOOKS EASY, BUT IT TAKES AN EXPERT. CU trick shot of racket stringing without workman.

Keywords

Sport; Industry and manufacture; Newsreels

Locations

England

Library number GR

7505 missing

Length of story (in feet)

180

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