Borough Market employees carry 100-weight bags on heads in race for award of clock donated by Charlie Chaplin; others carry basket stacks
Title Card: "Sporting Porters Use Their Heads - London Eng. - Jolly employees of Borough Market try sure cure for headaches in annual derby" / WS employees carrying bags on their heads start race as gun goes off / (100-weight bags for a mile, and the winner will be presented with a large clock donated by Charles Chaplin) they start race as on gun goes off / VS competitors walk and run on track with bags on their heads / Following two men running with bags on their heads, catching up with another man having bag on back of his neck instead of head / Follow man running to the finish line, he throws bag on ground, two men try to catch him / MS man is presented with a large clock, man shaking hands with a lady / Intertitle: "Swell Headwork" / MS showing competition of men carrying high stacks of straw baskets on their heads / Note: exact day not known
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DETAILS
Editorial #:
1667908660
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
October 01, 1930
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:00:52:22
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr005605_01_01
- Borough Market,
- 1930-1939,
- Accuracy,
- Adult,
- Archival,
- Award,
- Bag,
- Basket,
- Black And White,
- Carrying,
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- Central London,
- Charitable Donation,
- Charlie Chaplin,
- Cheerful,
- Clock,
- Competition,
- Confidence,
- Contest,
- Day,
- Employee,
- Film - Moving Image,
- Finish Line,
- Gun,
- HD Format,
- Handshake,
- Head,
- Headache,
- Human Head,
- London - England,
- Men,
- Newsreel,
- Produced Segment,
- Real Time Video,
- Running,
- Showing,
- Sport,
- Sports Race,
- Stack,
- Throwing,
- UK,
- Walking,
- Women,