News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Movietone News Presents: The 1939 Boat Race
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 9 / 9
- Section Title
- News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: University Boat Race, 1939. DESCRIPTION: Victory goes to Cambridge in this year’s Inter-varsity Boat Race. SHOTLIST: Oxford and Cambridge, bring out their boats and Hart Massey, the diminutive Oxford cox takes his seat. The crews race from Putney to Mortlake, and Oxford are stroked by Bingham. Cambridge by Sanford. The race is won by the Cambridge crew with a margin of four lengths. Crowds of people on tow path.
- Keywords
- Sport; Rowing; Students; Education and training; Water sports
- Footage sources
- Great Britain
- Card file number
- 36015
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Alan Howland
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 159
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'News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Movietone News Presents: The 1939 Boat Race', British Movietone News Issue No. 513, 3 Apr 1939. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/9854 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)