| SPORTS AT ARMY HOSPITAL aka WOUNDED AND NURSES Recovering soldiers playing sports. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5103 | |
| Catalog #: | 365308 | |
| Clip Number: | 365308-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 12 I | |
| Timecode: | 01:06:35 - 01:07:37 | |
| Location: | Wandsworth, London. | |
| Year Shot: | 1915 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CONTESTS: Recreational (Tug O War, Sack Race, etc) LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England WORLD WAR ONE, MILITARY: R & R, Rest and Relaxation | |
| Description: | SPORTS AT ARMY HOSPITAL aka WOUNDED AND NURSES Recovering soldiers playing sports. Wandsworth, London. "Our Cheery Wounded". Contests for recovering soldier patients and nurses at 3rd London General Hospital; Wandsworth. Silly; wacky; weird; Monty Python type stuff. Opens with part of an obstacle course sequence: front view of men (wearing regular civilian clothes) running to row of covered barrels; diving into them and breaking through the other side; letting loose lots of dust. More men behind them crawl through the barrels. In BG; some British Army in uniforms and some other guys in shirts and ties all watch. Next;a bobbing-for-apples thing. Shot of a line of enamel bowls lined up on the grass; the men come bounding into the frame; throw themselves over the bowls and try to pick up apple in their teeth. CU of one guy who keeps trying after others are done. Next; a funny race in which blindfolded men run while guided by nurses (in nun's habits) who run behind the guys and hold them by "reins"! They have to run across a field; circling some folding chairs. Finally a contest with two men straddling a pole and hitting each other with pillows until one of them loses his balance and falls over; while a group of other soldiers (some with eyepatches; etc.) and nurses watch. Comic. | |
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