Sporting Holiday (1963)

Maidenhead, Berkshire. L/S sail boat on Thames at Bisham Abbey, various shots people sailing. M/S model boat on bank, a group of people are stood round. Various shots as instructor uses it to demonstrate sailing techniques. M/S another instructor showing boy in canoe how to use paddle, he hands it over and boy pushes off from side. M/S canoe capsizing and coming up again. M/S instructor on bank showing how to surface. L/S canoe capsizing again, boy pushes himself up right way. L/S high angle boats on river, pan across to three tennis courts. L/S two people having a tennis match, M/S girls watching. L/S as people run on and throw balls, various shots of people hitting them. M/S basketball game, various shots of the match. Various shots as boys stand and watch man demonstrate wrestling, M/S two boys in kilts wrestle. M/S as boy gets out of instructor’s headlock, two boys practise it. Two men watch. Cuts exist - see separate record FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OU