For This Year’s Boat Race (1927)

Item title reads: “For This Year’s Boat Race. Both crews have now started training in real earnest. Cambridge are well together and pleasing the critics“. Cambridge and Shrewsbury Sequences of each of the crews launching their boats and rowing along at pace. Intertitle reads: “Oxford are training at Shrewsbury and hope to break their spell of hard luck.“ 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 website.