Item title reads - The "Summer Eights". Oxford great boating and social annual festival opens in brilliant sunshine. Oxfordshire.
L/S of lots of people in boats punting and rowing down the river, they all look dangerously close to each other! M/S of a team of rowers in shorts and T-shirts...
Item title reads - The "Summer Eights". Oxford great boating and social annual festival opens in brilliant sunshine. Oxfordshire.
L/S of lots of people in boats punting and rowing down the river, they all look dangerously close to each other! M/S of a team of rowers in shorts and T-shirts stood in their boat with their oars in the air, a man punts them along. L/S of the team sat in their boat ready to row. The race begins and they set off. M/S as people run along the bridges ahead of them to get a good view. M/S as the two teams row, one is someway ahead.
Note: this item is orange tinted, there is a black and white version with the same title and footage on *PM0398*.
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