Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Pre-Atom Sport
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 6
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Stone Age Sport. DESCRIPTION: Americans have taken sport back to the Stone Age. This American football match has cavemen for the competitors and real live pig skin for the ball. SHOTLIST: KS MS Stone Age football teams, as dressed in that period, loin cloth and carrying clubs. Various shots of the team playing, the "ball" being a piglet, game played like rugger, ground is covered in snow, ends by piglet getting away from the teams. Also as the teams get "knocked-out" they pile same in a heap. Finish on piglet running off pitch, team in hot pursuit.
- Keywords
- Sport; Curiosities
- Locations
- United States of America
- Footage sources
- USM?
- Card file number
- 46325
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 42
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Pre-Atom Sport', British Movietone News Issue No. 865, 31 Dec 1945. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/13670 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)