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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 4 mins 46 secs
Subject: CELEBRATIONS / CEREMONIES ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE SPORT
Summary This film is from the C.H. Wood collection and contains footage of the 1946 West Yorkshire Trial. There are many shots of the competitors riding along the track through water, mud and grass, as well as shots of the spectators, judges and the riders falling off their bikes.
Description
This film is from the C.H. Wood collection and contains footage of the 1946 West Yorkshire Trial. There are many shots of the competitors riding along the track through water, mud and grass, as well as shots of the spectators, judges and the riders falling off their bikes.
Title-West Yorkshire Group Trial, near Denholme Dec: 1st 1946
Title-Deep Cliff, Harden Moor
The camera is at the top of a steep, mossy, rocky hill looking down onto the riders making their way up the track. Spectators stand...
This film is from the C.H. Wood collection and contains footage of the 1946 West Yorkshire Trial. There are many shots of the competitors riding along the track through water, mud and grass, as well as shots of the spectators, judges and the riders falling off their bikes.
Title-West Yorkshire Group Trial, near Denholme Dec: 1st 1946
Title-Deep Cliff, Harden Moor
The camera is at the top of a steep, mossy, rocky hill looking down onto the riders making their way up the track. Spectators stand at the top of the hill and move when the riders get near to them. There are shots from different points along the track. One of the riders goes into a boulder and stops and some men have to help him to move the bike.
In the next section, the riders have to go along a narrow ledge that runs along the top of a stone wall. Then the shots cut back to the top of the hill watching the riders bounce their way up towards the camera; the judges write in their score books.
Title-To Shipley Glen for lunch
The riders drive along a very muddy track between a railing and a stone wall in a type of parkland. There are shots of many riders on that track either, speeding along the track or getting stuck and having to use their feet to move the bike.
Title-And home by way of Eldwick Glen.
The riders go along a good road along the glen before coming to a gap in a wall where they have to go through and up a steep hill. Some of the shots are taken from a distance away looking at the riders as they move away from the camera, and the other shots are taken from the direction that the bikes are heading.