Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Light Blues’ Easy Boat Race Win
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cambridge Win By 10 Length (Boat Race). DESCRIPTION: Cambridge win the University Boat Race by ten lengths. SHOTLIST: KS CU programme. Several shots of crowds along towpath, raining. Venders selling light and dark blue favours. Shots of peoples’ feet walking along muddy towpath. Shot from towpath neat Hammersmith, GV of river. Girl piper playing bagpipes. Elevated GV Oxford winning the toss, crowds round two captains. Oxford and Cambridge carry boats out to water, paddling to stake-boat. GV start of race. Out of camera shot. SV Cambridge with slight lead. Elevated shot as Cambridge approach Hammersmith Bridge, with two lengths lead. Out of camera shooting Hammersmith Bridge. GV Cambridge leading and approaching the Stork Training Ship seen in background. GV SV of two boats going up. LS Cambridge with good lead passing Chiswick, out of camera shooting Barnes Bridge. Approach winning post. Cambridge lead by ten lengths. Cambridge look quite fresh, Oxford slumped. Cut-ins of crowds on the banks.
- Keywords
- Sport; Rowing; Water sports
- Locations
- Putney; Mortlake
- Footage sources
- Gaumont
Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer
Pathe
Universal
- Card file number
- 48390
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Hilton Craig
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Montague G. Benson
- Length of story (in feet)
- 222
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Light Blues’ Easy Boat Race Win', British Movietone News Issue No. 930A, 3 Apr 1947. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/14375 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)