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- 1950-1952 (Produção)
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Commonwealth Games held in Auckland, 1950. Some filming taken by Derek Pugh [English 400m and European 400m Champion, 1950]. Subjects include the outgoing flight; College quarters; 'tuning up'; Garden Party; opening ceremony in Eden Park; athletics; the Maori welcome; Boi Ball dance; Rotorua; old Maori village; Rotorua athletic meeting; farewell to New Zealand; shots of Sydney, Darwin, Singapore, Calcutta, Egypt and Rome; home.
European Athletic Championships held in Brussels, 1950. Subjects include Brussels; Heysel Stadium; athletics; start of the marathon race won by Jack Holden; scenes with Zatopek, Reiff, Pugh, Shenton and Bannister.
Olympic Games held in Helsinki, 1952. Subjects include the flight out; camp on Saarassi; arrival of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh; Olympic Village including Stampfle, Gordon Pirie, Geoff Iden, Billy Holt and Tommy Thomas; athletics; marathon; Prix des Nations with the horse Foxhunter; a Finnish tour showing Porvo, Turku, Naandoli, Tampere, The Lakes, Aylanko and Hamenlinna.
Originally numbered No.19a Reels 1-3, 21 and 24 Reels 1-3.