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1940 HORSE RACING: War-time Grand National
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4:12Now PlayingDate: 8th April 1940
Location: AINTREE, ENGLAND
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Grand National
ENGLAND: Liverpool: Aintree:
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Gen. top view & long view crowd.
CU Scottish officer.
CU naval officer.
CU RAF officer.
Long view naval officer sitting down.
Gen. view paddock.
Semi view Royal Danieli pan to other horses past.
CU MacMoffat past.
CU Bachelor Prince pan to Professor II.
Semi view Kilstar.
Long view & semi view of Pte. Gordon Roll with his horse Tuckmill.
Semi view jockey in army coat.
Semi view two jockeys in RAF coats.
Long view number board.
Sequence of jocking mounting.
Gen. view crowd pan to parade.
Semi top view horses going out.
Semi view Tuckmill thru' gates..Roll turned away by police at gates.
Semi view & CU pretty girl looking thru' glasses.
Long view horses jockeying for position.
Back view start. Semi view pan away.
Gen. view horses over 1st jump..Rockquilla & Royal Danieli.
Long view horses over jump...Royal Danieli in front.
Long view pan horses over Beecher's Brook...Royal Danieli & MacMoffat in front.
Long view pan horses over jump before Canal turn.
Long view horses over Canal turn...Royal Danieli in front.
Top view pan horses over Valentines Brook.
Angle shot slow motion horses over Valentines Brook.
Gen. view pan horses over jump...Royal Danieli & Macmoffat in front.
Semi view pan Macmoffat...Royal Danieli.
Top view over water jump.
CU pan horses round corner...Macmoffat, Royal Danieli, Gold Arrow.
Long view over jump...one fall...
Long view pan horses over Beechers...Red Freeman falls.
Slow motion over Beechers.
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