| SPORTS NEWS - HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5787 |
| Catalog #: | 309052 | |
| Clip Number: | 309052-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 56/55 | |
| Timecode: | 01:18:29 - 01:20:09 | |
| Location: | Henley (Henley-on-Thames), Oxfordshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1956 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CROWDS: Spectators, Sports LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Oxfordshire SPORTS: Trophies, Cups & Prizes SPORTS/WATER: Rowing (Sculls) | |
| Description: | SPORTS NEWS - HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA Henley (Henley-on-Thames), Oxfordshire GV. Henley and river scene. GV. Crowds massed along river bank, race in progress. SV. Crowds on river bank sunning themselves. CU. Elderly man with cap. SV. Two fashionable girls. LV. The Poplar and Blackwall Club (Dockers) posing with their eighty-seven year old coach and sixteen year old cox (R. Cottage). SCU. Eighty-seven year old coach and sixteen year old cox. SV. Pan, the Wyfold Cup (fours) race in progress. Royal Engineers v Brockville Club of Canada. Royal Engineers on the far side. GV. Group of men and women watching race. SV. Group of men watching race one wearing boaters. SV. Finish of the Wyfold Cup with the Royal Engineers winning. SV. Group of people looking at the various cups in glass cases. SCU. The Grand Challenge Cup flanked by two other smaller cups. SV. Group of people, one man looking through binoculars. SV. Finish of the Diamond Sculls, with Tony Fox of London and T. Kotzerka of Poland competing. Kotzerka passes the post to win by four lengths in eight minutes and thirty seven seconds. SCU. Spectators applauding. LV. Pan, start of the Grand Challenge Cup. French Army v Rodclubben Three Towns of Sweden. Pan to back view as the teams race up river almost neck and neck. Side view, people watching. GV. The Grand Challenge Cup race finishing, the French Army boat passing the post, winning. The cox of the French boat gets excited, lifting his arms up in the air. SCU. Audience. LV. Both boats side by side after race. | |
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