GRAHAM WHITE'S FIRST ANNUAL SPORTS [Main Title]

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  • Title: GRAHAM WHITE'S FIRST ANNUAL SPORTS [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 299
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: A sports day at a British Army convalescent camp, probably in Britain, 1918.
  • Description: The sports are held by convalescent soldiers wearing hospital blue uniforms, and by nurses. A man and woman in civilian clothes, well-dressed, throw sweets to the crowd of convalescents. The sports consist of a tug of war, a three-legged race with soldiers tied to nurses, a bicycle race and a wheelbarrow joust in which the men try to knock a bucket of water off a counterbalance.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 299
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 299)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: recreation, British military - sport: athletics (object name) medical, British military - hospital (object name) society, British - charity (object name) 31/3(41) (event) GB, England (?) (geography) Class (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 99 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 299

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