World’s Richest Foot Race (1946)

Unissued / Unused material. Title - ’Stawell Gift: World’s Richest Foot Race’. Victoria. Australia. MS band playing and marching at track. LS stand. Various shots crowds at the race. Various shots of a track race. Various shots people betting at bookmakers. MS start of race. MS Aboriginal athletes Eli Rubuntja and Edwin Pareroultja shaking hands. MS first heat of the Stawell Gift, the runners cross the line, one man falls. CU V. T. Deane who won that heat. MS crowds. MS bookmakers paying out wins. MS finalists warming up. CU another heat. MS’s sporting journalists reporting. Various shots as they race in final heat. Deane crosses line first. MS wife kissing him. MS as Miss Glennis Willoughby puts sash round his neck. CU Deane. 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. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also