Canada - Empire Games: Athletes Arrive (1954)

Vancouver, Canada. GV Trans Canada Airline arriving at Vancouver from Britain, with English, Scottish and Northern Ireland teams. SV Vancouver police pipe band playing. SV teams coming off plane. TV pipe band. SV Australians arriving down gangway. SV pan, Rhodesian team standing about. CU badge on blazer ’Rhodesia, Boxing’. SV toy springbok held by two South African girls. CU blazer ’South Africa’. AS sign: “Empire Village“. LV pan, flag raising ceremony. CU man holding Gold Coast sign. SV man rising Gold Coast flag. CU girl with fuzzy hair from Fiji. SV group of Jamaicans. CU badge ’Jamaica’. SV British Guiana hauling up flag. AS name on hut ’Scotland’. SV group of Scottish athletes. SV & CU Marjorie Jackson, an Australian sprinter. CU Murray Helberg from New Zealand. SV Australian John Landy leaving building. (FG.) (Orig.G.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.