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News In The Swim 1954
Description
Folkestone, Kent.
LV group of Egyptian swimming team standing at hotel entrance, & CU. GV pan, swimming pool at Folkestone. CU notice 'Channel Swimmers Now in Training'. SV three swimmers exercising on edge of pool, left to right, Bob Payson of U.S.A. Toufic Bleik from Lebanon, Signor Beltram...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sanja
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 29656
- Sort Number:
- 54/061
- Time in/Out:
- 01:48:07:00 / 01:49:13:00
- Canister:
- 54/61
- Film ID:
- 176.32
- Issue Date:
- 09/08/1954
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"Signor Beltram" is Damian Beltram.