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Summary: Highly disjointed film of a sports meeting held by the RAF contingent in France, 28th April 1919.
Description: The film jumps and pulls-back frequently, making it very hard to follow. It starts with posed groups of football teams. A group of RAF officers, including a chaplain, talk together. Portrait shots, in uniform, of the winners of the various boxing heats: Sergeant Stone who won the lightweight, Corporal Garrett who won the middleweight and heavyweight and Corporal Winfield who won the welterweight divisions. The sports continue with the RAF crowd watching a football match. The winning team poses for photographs and its members are chaired away by the cheering crowd. A rugby match with, again, a posed shot of the winners. The tug-of-war contest also with the winners, followed by the athletes lining up for the start of the cross-country. A 'tote' takes bets. The winner of the cross-country comes in and is cheered by his supporters, who hold up a sign "Where Are They ?". Back at the football match the crowd cheers. In an acted sequence a 'toff' in the crowd has his pocket picked by two 'roughs'.
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Stone (Sergeant) (person)
Garrett (Corporal) (person)
Winfield (Corporal) (person)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: recreation, British air - sport: boxing (object name)
recreation, British air - sport: football (object name)
recreation, British air - sport: rugby union (object name)
recreation, British air - sport: athletics (object name)
religion, Christianity - military, British (object name)
First World War, Armistice & 28/4/1919 (event)
France (geography)
Class (concept)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: None
Subtitle language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 627 ft; Running time: 11 mins