BRITISH EMPIRE AND AMERICAN SERVICES SPORTS, STAMFORD BRIDGE, SEPT 7TH 1918 [Main Title]

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  • Title: BRITISH EMPIRE AND AMERICAN SERVICES SPORTS, STAMFORD BRIDGE, SEPT 7TH 1918 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 633
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  • Summary: An athletics meeting for servicemen and women from Britain, the Imperial forces and the US Army at Stamford Bridge football ground, Fulham, London, 7th September 1918.
  • Description: The film starts with a posed group of the RAF team. Three heats of the 100 yards sprint are shown, followed by the one mile race which is won by Corporal J Mason from New Zealand. (Mason is not shown clearly on the film.) Two competitors take part in the long jump. The women's auxiliary forces 440 yards relay is won by the RAF team, which is shown in a posed group. The 120 yards hurdles is won by Lieutenant Fraser RAF, who is shown posed afterwards. The one mile relay is won by the RAF team, as is the tug-of-war. At the end of the games Lord Beaverbrook presents prizes to the winners.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 633)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Aitken, William Maxwell, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (person) Mason, J & [-] (person) Fraser (Lieutenant) (person) British Army (regiment/service) Royal Air Force (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Women's Royal Air Force, (regiment/service) British Army, New Zealand Div (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: recreation, British military - sport: athletics (object name) recreation, British air - sport: athletics (object name) society, British military - friendship (object name) 31/3(41) (event) GB, England & London, SW <Fulham & Stamford Bridge football ground> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 315 ft; Running time: 5 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Production: probably an RAF film, if only on the grounds that most of the winners shown are RAF personnel Remarks: an interesting film of a routine event, with some highly inventive camera angles. But one is left wondering why so many obviously very fit men were still in England while the armies in France were involved in winning the war
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