The Athletic Event Of The Year (1928)

Full titles read: “The Athletic Event of the year - Both Light and Dark Blues at practice show fine form. Records are going to be broken at this year’s ’Varsity Sports!“ Queen’s Club, London. Great M/S shows a man running towards us along a long jump track on an athletic field in slow-motion; he leaps into the air and comes down on the sand. L/S (at normal speed) of two men running around the track and jumping over hurdles. Another great slow-motion shot of a man taking a pole-vault jump. C/Us of several of the Oxford and Cambridge University athletes; most are wearing cricket jumpers. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire