The Derby (1956)

Epsom. People are gathering at Epsom for the 1956 Derby - a wet day. LV. Epsom race course, showing a stand in distance. TV. Massed crowds at the track taken from the stand. GV. Royal party walking towards camera, heading for paddock. TV. People milling around bookmaker. CV. Bookmaker in top hat. LV. Paddock with horses circling. GV. Some of the horses walking in the paddock. GV. Jockeys coming into the paddock. GV. Walking shot - through crowds, camera pans round to bookies. TV. Horses emerging from paddock led by the Queen’s horse Atlas with Harry Carr up - followed by No 2 Gilles de Retz and No 3 Hornbeam, ridden by Joe Mercer. TV. No 7 “Tenereze“ walking to the parade. LV. The end of parade, horses turn at the beginning of the line and start to gallop back. GV. Crowds in the stand looking across the course towards the start. LV. Horses circling before coming up to the tapes. GV. The starter climbing onto his rostrum. GV. Horses up at the tapes and one on the far side very eager. He goes into the tapes