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  • Short Summary

    Islington presents outdoor party with boxing and wrestling as entertainment for wounded soldiers

  • Description

    Titles read: 'Islington's Garden Party To Wounded - Boxing and wrestling by champions.'

    London.

    Islington presents outdoor party with boxing and wrestling as entertainment for wounded soldiers (as spectators; not participants). Opens with boxing match; shot from a few rows back in audience; looking over men's hats. CU winner; who smiles at camera and holding up his hand and wiggling his forefinger. Wrestling in progress. Then CU wrestlers struggle on the mat; referee rules that a pin is made; and they stand up. In FG the corner; with a towel hanging from the rope and a large bowl of water on the edge of the platform.

    Fight; entertainment World War One; sports.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1900.06
    Media URN:
    72808
    Group:
    Old negatives
    Archive:
    British Pathe
    Issue Date:
    1918
    Sound:
    Silent
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:42:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:05:43:00 / 01:06:25:00
    Canister:
    ON 103 B

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