Pancake Race

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2542
Date Released
19 Feb 1978
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pancake Race. DESCRIPTION: Beauty Queens line up in Lincoln’s Inn Fields for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race. The winner was Miss Jamaica International, Dorothy Ottey. SHOTLIST: MS open top bus arriving with beauty queens on board. GV street. MS beauty queens leaving bus. MA jazz musicians playing on top of bus. MS beauty queens line up tossing pancakes. MS beauty queen No 5 Shauna Brown (Miss Scottish TV 1977). MS No 1 Dinah May (Miss Great Britain 1976) tossing pancake. MS pan beauty queens. MS John Blake (Chef of the Gloucester Hotel) and marshal firing starting gun. MS girls running. LS ditto. LS Lynn Perry (Miss ATV 1977) sits up after falling over. MCU winner No 8 Dorothy Ottey (Miss Jamaica International).
Keywords
Women; Customs and traditions; Competitions
Locations
London; Lincolns Inn Fields
Card file number
78/18
Credits:
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Camera
Richard Day
Length of story (in feet)
71
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Pancake Race', British Movietone News Issue No. 2542, 19 Feb 1978. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/31105 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)