| PHYSICAL FITNESS Sir Kingsley Wood and Oliver Stanley watch an exercise display at a school in Battersea, part of incentive to improve physical fitness among yo | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6322 |
| Catalog #: | 178284 | |
| Clip Number: | 178284-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 36/90 | |
| Timecode: | 01:29:17 - 01:30:32 | |
| Location: | Battersea, London, England | |
| Year Shot: | 1936 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/TEENAGERS: Sports LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London SPORTS/PHYSICAL FITNESS: Misc. SPORTS/PHYSICAL FITNESS: Stretch | |
| Description: | Physical fitness. Government's concern for the nation. Battersea, London. M/S of schoolboys doing star jumps (modified jumping jacks), the camera pans across the rows to Sir Kingsley Wood, the Minister of Health, and Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Education who are watching. This is a new incentive to improve the physical fitness of young people. M/S as they do stretching exercises, M/S as boys balance and bend on a bar for strength, others do backward rolls. Various shots as they somersault, vault and jump through a hoop. M/S of Kingsley Wood suggesting the Cabinet and House of Commons should do these exercises as well! | |
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