Summary

Footage Information

British Pathé
VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY
Item title reads - 'Varsity cross country. Cambridge "run away" from Oxford .... easily winning team and place honours. Roehampton, London.

M/S of the six competitors from Oxford University stood in two rows before the race. The Cambridge team do the same, they laugh and point at the camera. L/S as they line up ready to start, people stand at the side of the road as they run down. M/S of two men holding a scarf from each university knotted together, the winner runs up and salutes as he passes the line. M/S of two of his team mates congratulating him. C/U of him on his own looking tired and out of breath.

M/S of the finish line and winner. M/S of the Cambridge team before the race. L/S as they stand at the starting line. C/U of the winner laughing, M/S of him with his friends. M/S of the two teams again. M/S as the Oxford team climb out of an upstairs room and down a ladder. M/S of the Oxford team again.

Note: the cuts run from 01:12:31 to the end of the item. A yellow tinted version exists.
British Pathe
1925
00:01:33:00
Black & White
Silent
438.08

Keywords

Roehampton London Cambridge Oxford universities running
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