The Grand National
Series
- Series Name
- British Paramount News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 2
- Summary
- Early Mist "walks away" with world’s biggest steeplechase by twenty lengths from Mont Tremblant. Only five finish out of field of thirty-one. Paramount’s jump-by-jump report brings thrilling race to life again.
- Keywords
- Sport; Horse racing; Newsreels
- Locations
- Liverpool; Aintree
- Footage sources
- British Movietone News
British Pathe
Gaumont British
- Library number
- 21269
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- Arthur W. Farmer
- Camera
- Edward Henry Hawkins
- Camera
- George Richardson
- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Camera
- James F. Gemmell
- Camera
- James Humphries
- Camera
- John C. Harding
- Camera
- Len W. Dudley
- Camera
- Martin Gray
- Camera
- Ronald L. Read
- Length of story (in feet)
- 492
-
Production Documents
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This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
- info@screenocean.com
- Web
- http://reuters.screenocean.com/
- Phone
- +44(0)1954 262052
- Address
- 124 Horseferry Road,
London
SW1P 2TX - Notes
- British Pathe Ltd (qv) also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
- Series held
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How to cite this record
'The Grand National', British Paramount News Issue No. 2304, 30 Mar 1953. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/44324 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)