Paddle Your Own Canoe (1927)

Item title reads: “Paddle Your Own Canoe!. 100 entrants in first canoeing Marathon over full course of 26 miles.“ Medfield M/S of a group of canoes on the water. Each canoe has one man in it using a kneeling stance to paddle. They come round a river bend in a large group. L/S down river with canoes paddling towards camera, one going at speed under a bridge. The water is almost like a mirror. The thin muscular men are then seen lugging their canoes up onto the bank, followed by canoeists hauling and carrying their canoes overland, through the woods. They relaunch, watched by crowds on the bank, and from boathouses. Note: VHS Sleeve indicates item as G 1431 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 1