All-In Regatta (1960)

M/S of a large crowd wearing summer clothes sitting on the grass by the boating lake at Butlin’s Holiday Camp in Clacton, Essex on a hot summer’s day; M/S of a large comedian man wearing a white ’Butlins’ hat sitting in the crowd and blowing up a rubber ring, while a lady next to him in sunglasses and summer dress looks on and laughs. M/S of two middle-aged women in sun hats and a man looking on. M/Ss of the large man getting into a kind of kayak canoe with the ring round his neck, as a smaller man in sailor suit gets in the front with an oar; two girls in the crowd watching and laughing; commentator says “...the boating lake at this Clacton holiday camp is not more than a few inches deep; but just the same, at the weekly regattas held on it, anything goes, and the contestants do well to finish the course, let alone win“. M/Ss of the canoe being pushed into the lake (large man has ’Lifesaver’ written on his back) where it immediately capsizes; a family of three in the crowd look on, the mother and boy ea
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