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La dona i els esports = [Women and Sports]

Date produced: 1935

Filmmaker(s):

Eusebi Ferré Borrell

Description:

Documental sobre el Club Femení i d'Esports de Barcelona que recull les úniques imatges en moviment d'aquesta institució pionera. Documentary about the Women's and Sports Club of Barcelona that collects the only moving images of this pioneering institution.


Life at Deep Cove

Date produced: 1937

Description:

Life at Deep Cove "shows family leisure activities, 1937 Deep Cove Regatta; colour section of sunbathing and Deep Cove scenes" British Columbia Archives.


Mendexako I. Kros Lehiaketa [Mendexa Cross Country Contest]

Date produced: 1986

Filmmaker(s):

José Luis De la Torre Agirre

Description:

Kroseko reportajea.

El filme retrata el deporte cross country.

The film depicts cross country running.


Motor Car Racing at Southport

Date produced: 1934

Filmmaker(s):

George Jesse Turner

Description:

"Exciting times at Southport, as racing cars hurtle around a course laid out on the sands, in this short reel by filmmaker George Jesse Turner. The town has an impressive history of motor racing - before the famous Brooklands circuit opened in 1907, cars raced each other through Southport streets, though this proved too disruptive, and the sport was wisely relocated to the town's sandy beaches." (BFI Player)


Northern Lawn Tennis Club

Date produced: 1930

Filmmaker(s):

Leonard Frederick Behrens

Description:

"Scenes of a men's single match taking place at the Northern Lawn Tennis Club in Didsbury. A seated crowd watch the game from the side lines. Concludes with a group of 7-8 adults and a young child walking through a garden gate and along a path towards the camera." (NWFA Online Database)


Olimpiadi invernali di Garmisch [Winter Olympics in Garmisch]

Date produced: 1942

Description:

"documentario"/documentary


Olympionic

Date produced: 1969

Filmmaker(s):

Rose Dabbs

Stuart Dabbs

Description:

Olympionic is another successful film by Rose and Stuart Dabbs of the Bronx. Naturally it's in color, and it is only 4 minutes long. The film is an excellent example of creativity, experimentation and what have you. It's all put together neatly. Here's your chance to see a film twice, three times and even as many as twenty times all in one screening. The gracefulness of the film is really a work of art. Oh yes, it's about Olympic diving" PSA Journal, Nov. 1969, 57.


Pro-Rec Annual Display, May 4th, 1945 : Under the Direction of Mrs. Hilda Keatley, The

Date produced: 1945

Description:

"Young women at Brockton Point, Stanley Park, put on a display of Pro-Rec activities: massed calisthenics, costumed dancing, drill team (brief shots only), more massed calisthenics. The film concludes with a couple of men's tumbling runs." (BC Archives)

One of the regular displays or demonstrations put on in Vancouver by the Provincial Recreation Program ("Pro-Rec"), a community-oriented physical education program administered by the British Columbia Department of Education. Mrs. Hilda Keatley was the Provincial Supervisor for Women. The program operated in many BC cities and towns during the years 1938-1953. (D.J. Duffy)

The filmmaker has not been identified.


Rhos-on-Sea T.T., The

Date produced: 1931

Filmmaker(s):

Don Johnson


Rodeo

Date produced: 1935

Filmmaker(s):

Ralph A. Cathles

Description:

"Comprehensive record of the event at London's White City stadium, with U.K., U.S., and Commonwealth entrants. Cowboys and cowgirls, saddled and bareback-riding, bucking broncos, roping, steer riding and dangerous horseback acrobatics. Named riders - Hardy Murphy, Ted Elder and Homer the Rodeo Clown." (EAFA Database)


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