News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Sporting Personalities

Issue

Issue No.

3

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Stanley Matthews

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: Stanley Matthews of Staffordshire, eighty times an English Soccer International, began learning his extraordinary ball-control as a boy on a strip of ground in the shadow of the pottery-kilns. This accounts of his career uses film records of memorable games to pinpoint examples of his skill and craftsmanship on the football field. He is also seen receiving the CBE (the first footballer to be thus honoured); and in Ghana, being crowned ‘King of Soccer’. Winner of a Grand Silver Medal at the International Festival of Sporting Films, Cortina, 1960.

Keywords

Football

Written sources

Films From Britain Catalogue   1964-1965, p260 - used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 923/3

Credits:

Production Co.

Anvil Films Ltd

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Colonial Office

Sponsor

Commonwealth Relations Office

Sponsor

Foreign Office

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Notes

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