The Speed Girls (1930)

Full titles read: “The Speed Girls. - Ice Hockey is Women’s latest sport - the girls are practising for a - - -“ (remainder of title is obscured by timecode.) Hove, Brighton. M/S of six young ladies in gymslips on an ice-rink, holding ice hockey sticks. Another girl skates into shot; she says they are the Sussex Ladies Ice Hockey Club and are going to play a practise game. Various shots of the girls playing ice hockey - during this section we hear a man’s voice say “Alright, the mic’s moved“. Intertitle reads: “The men give the watchers a new kind of laugh - boxing on ice, one man minus skates! (The —- [?] is Harry Mason, the well-known boxer.)“ (may be incorrect - part of title is obscured by timecode.) M/S of two men boxing on the ice; one wears ice skates, the other just wears boots (he could be Harry Mason). 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.