Sportin’ Life (1945)

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Horace Lindrum and Sidney Smith doing a few trick shots on the billiard table at Cheltenham Town Hall. This is a charity event organised by Red Cross in aid of Cheltenham General Hospital. Gerry Wilson, Gordon Richards, boxer Len Harvey and Jimmy Wilde playing a game of snooker. Crowd looking on. Jack Watson is the M.C. 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.