Pancake Race
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pancake Race. DESCRIPTION: The National Pancake Racing Championships held at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. BBC Golden Girl Pat Keeling wins one of the races. SHOTLIST: LV sign Lincoln Inn Fields park in back ground. SV girls lined up practising tossing pan cakes in pans. SV Miss GB 1971/72 Caroline More tossing pan cake. LV mass of pigeons eating on lawn. SV girls getting ready taking off track suits. CU ditto, pan to No 1 Miss Australia (Valli Kemp) taking off track suit. GV crowds watching girls lined up for start. SV girls lined up and false start, No 7 drops pan cake. CU woman watching. FV girls lined up again and off, another false start, SV pan crowd watching. GV girls racing towards camera down straight, SV pan Nos 7 and 8 past camera, No 7 wins. SV pan No 6 left behind comes in last. SV mass of pigeons still eating. SV winner No 7 Pat Keeling holding up pan and pancake. SV photographers. CU Keeling, the winner. [Also taking part - Elizabeth Robinson, Miss Great Britain. Former Miss Great Britain, Wendy Ann George. Helen White.]
- Keywords
- Customs and traditions; Curiosities
- Locations
- Parliament Hill Fields
- Card file number
- 98922
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Denis White
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 92
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How to cite this record
'Pancake Race', British Movietone News Issue No. 2284, 12 Mar 1973. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/29804 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)