Selected Originals - National Beauty Queen Aka Bathing Belles (1952)

Selected originals (offcuts, selected scenes, out-takes, rushes) for story ’National Beauty Queen’ - 52/71. Short section used as title sequence for newsreel story. Without superimposed title. A line up of young women wearing swimming costumes - they are taking part in the ’Sunday Dispatch’ National Bathing Beauty Contest - Morecambe, Lancashire. 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 News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
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