News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone Gazette

Issue

Issue No.

256

Date Released

30 Apr 1934

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The FA Cup Final at Wembley

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: FA Cup Final at Wembley Manchester City V Portsmouth. DESCRIPTION: 94,000 spectators fill Wembley Stadium to watch the fight for the FA Cup, in which Manchester City beat Portsmouth 2-1. The King is present to share the pleasure of his subjects, and Tom Webster describes the Game for British Movietone News. SHOTLIST: CU Man leading the community singing. "Abide With Me". Shot of mass crowd. Elevated. Shot of Tom Webster sitting at "mike" talking. The teams onto field. GV Large crowd. The King mounts steps. Shot of the players on the field before the kick off. GV Field and the play. One player is carried off. Shot of Portsmouth scoring. Shot of Tom Webster at the "mike" still speaking. Aerial of the stadium over the football ground showing the game in progress. Shot taken from the rear of the spectators standing and waving hands and arms. Another goal scored. GV crowd waving and cheering. Players cross the field. Crowd roar.

Keywords

Royalty; Sport; Buildings and structures; Music and dance; Football

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

2889

Credits:

Commentator

Tom Webster

Length of story (in feet)

443

Story extras:

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