| DEXTERITY AND DARING AT SYDNEY SHOW Farmers competitions which includes wheat pitching in Sydney, Australia. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6398 | |
| Catalog #: | 97433 | |
| Clip Number: | 97433-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 39/36 | |
| Timecode: | 01:10:31 - 01:11:55 | |
| Location: | Sydney, Australia. | |
| Year Shot: | 1939 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CONTESTS: Unusual LOCATIONS/AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Sydney SPORTS/EQUESTRIAN: Show Jumping | |
| Description: | DEXTERITY AND DARING AT SYDNEY SHOW Sydney, Australia. L/S's of Australian farmers competing in a wheat pitching contest in large stadium. This involves throwing bags of wheat over a high pole with a pitch fork. Several shots of axemen chopping at large upright logs. They stick post in the crack they have made in the logs and climb onto it before starting to chop again and climbing further up. L/S's of the show jumping competition including a slow motion shot of the a rider taking a spectacular fall as his horse fails to clear the water jump. | |
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