Movietone’s Sport Reports: Rugby League Final
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 8
- Section Title
- Movietone’s Sport Reports
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sport Reports - Rugby League Final. DESCRIPTION: Workington Town beat Featherstone Rovers when they met in the Rugby League Final before seventy-three thousand fans at Wembley. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Crowd shots. Ditto. Toss-up. Kick-off, Featherstone penalised, Risman scores for Workington. General play. Lawrenson intercepts, & runs nearly length of pitch to score at try. Risman scores from conversion. Evans manages to score for Featherstone, just over line. Eden presents Cup. SCU winning team with Cup, captain shouldered, the lid of the Cup falls off.
- Local distribution only
- Not shown in Scotland, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle or Leeds.
- Keywords
- Sport; Politics and government; Ceremonies
- Locations
- Wembley Stadium
- Card file number
- 57079
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- George Richardson
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Martin Gray
- Camera
- Montague G. Benson
- Camera
- Paul Wyand
- Length of story (in feet)
- 114
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s Sport Reports: Rugby League Final', British Movietone News Issue No. 1194A, 24 Apr 1952. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/17746 (Accessed 08 Feb 2025)