| Suffragette death at 1913 Derby | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5004 |
| Catalog #: | 364565 | |
| Clip Number: | 364565-2 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1 C (Y) | |
| Timecode: | 01:43:29 - 01:45:08 | |
| Location: | Epsom, England, Great Britain | |
| Year Shot: | 1913 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CIVIL RIGHTS: Women, Suffragettes LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK SPORTS/EQUESTRIAN: Thoroughbred Racing | |
| Description: | Part of the film of the 1913 Derby; in which suffragette Emily Davison runs onto the track and throws herself at the King's horse with fatal results. (Davison, a radical "suffragette" who had failed in an earlier dramatic suicide attempt, believed that her death might serve to demonstrate the desperate dedication to the cause- -which it did, though not in the way she hoped.) Title: "Tattenham Corner" Hi ang view as horses come round the bend, in FG a bunch of guys on top of autos to watch as horses come down the track; in BG Crowds in stands. Title: "Suffragette Killed in Attempt to Pull Down the King's Horse." Again, view of track as horses come round a bend; Davison runs out in front of horse; is not surprisingly knocked down. People begin to run onto the track. Another camera view from front row of stands, w/ a few heads in FG watching horses coming down the straight. 01.44.48 Shot from inside track as crowd spills onto the field; crawling under rope; big grandstand in BG. LS panning on crowd in stands, filling entire screen. (Neg of complete story on Derby inc. Davison is on WPA 5186.). | |
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