Women’s Olympiad (1922)

Item title reads - Women’s Olympiad. English girl athletes “win all along the line“ - Monte Carlo, Monaco. M/S of the girls sitting on the ground, the camera pans across them. Various shots as they put their shoes on. M/S as one girl clears the high jump, another knocks it down and a third clears it also. Intertitle - ’the new theory that “sport may kill sex“ does not worry them!’ Various shots as four ladies take their turn at the shot put. M/S as they line up to start the hurdle race. L/S as they clear the hurdles. M/S of three of the British ladies stood together. C/U of one of them. 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 (1910-19