Gymnastic Festival At Stockholm (1939)

Full titles read: “GYMNASTIC FESTIVAL AT STOCKHOLM“ L/S’s of thousands of athletes gathered in a large stadium in Stockholm for the Linigad festival (named after Pehr Hendrick Ling - the inventor of Swedish Drill). The commentator says that it is the ’Olympic Games of the physical drill. Several shots of British athletes demonstrating their fitness on apparatus and also walking on their hands only. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé we