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  • Short Summary

    The best tennis players compete at Wimbledon.

  • Description

    Item title reads - The Mecca of Tennis. World's finest players meet on the famous Centre Court. Wimbledon.

    L/S as the camera pans across the crowds to men playing a match. M/S of the audience watching the ball going backwards and forwards. Various shots of the men's match. M/S of a ladies match. M/S of one female player hitting the ball. Various shots of male players at the net.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    408.22
    Media URN:
    19583
    Group:
    Unissued / unused
    Archive:
    British Pathe
    Issue Date:
    25/06/1925
    Sound:
    Silent
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:18:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:37:43:00 / 01:39:01:00
    Canister:
    G 1201

Comments (1)

  1. scorpio1163 says

    One of the players in the footage of the women's singles match is Suzanne Lenglen, but the camera is too far away to be able to identify her opponent. The women's player hitting the ball is Helen Wills which suggests that the footage is from 1924 rather than 1925 as Wills didn't take part in the 1925 tournament.

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