News In A Nutshell (1936)

Item title reads - News in a Nutshell. Intertitle - ’Leith’ (Scotland) - L/S of fire blazing at sailcloth and rope factory. Various shots of burning structure. M/S of fireman and engine. M/S of two men fighting the fire with a hose and water. Various shots of the buildings on fire and burning wreckage on the ground. Intertitle - ’Ilkley’ (Yorkshire) - M/S as motorcyclists set off for the race and officials look on. M/S as one cyclist goes through a very muddy bog. M/S as one gets stuck and their wheels churn in mud. People watch as they bump around the course and through Brown’s Brook where one man has to get off his steaming motorcycle and push. Intertitle - ’Leeds Castle, Maidstone’ (Kent) - Good L/S of Leeds Castle. M/S of Patty Berg, a member of the Curtis Cup golf team, taking her shot. M/S as Britain’s Joyce Wethered takes hers. M/S as Cecil Leitch takes a shot. L/S of people watching and castle in the background as Alfred Padgham plays his shot. L/S as people walk to next hole. M/S
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