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The Grand National, 1930

Series

Series Name
Pathe Super Gazette

Issue

Issue No.
1698
Date Released
31 Mar 1930
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The Grand National, 1930

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
The course is four miles, 836 yards and 30 obstacles have to be negotiated. Only slow motion can adequately reveal the beautiful sight of the huge ‘field’, taking the first jump. Safely over the first five jumps, Bechers Brook with its dreaded 3 ft 3 ins drop is reached. Our unique slow-motion-stop camera shows you how they jumped and fell at Bechers Brook. Canal turn. Valentine’s Brook - 4 ft high and 3 ft wide with a brook 6 ft 6 ins on the other side. Now again - ever so gracefully, in slow motion. Over the water jump and then off for the second circuit and 20 still standing. Grief again, at Bechers - G Goswell on "May King", amongst others - taking a nasty toss. (Watch it in slow-motion). The grand National’s most thrilling finish for years, T Cullinan squeezing "Shaun Collin", home by a neck from "Mellerays Belle", and, "Sir Lindsay".
Keywords
Sport; Horse racing; Newsreels
Credits:
Camera
Frank Augustus Bassill
Camera
Harold G. Jones
Camera
Harry Starmer
Camera
John Campbell Gemmell
Camera
John Gordon Lewis
Camera
Leslie Wyand
Camera
Montague Redknapp
Camera
Nicholson
Camera
Paul Robello
Camera
Robert Kenneth Leslie Gordon
Camera
William Cheseldon Moser
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Notes
Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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