Athletes arriving in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for Empire and Commonwealth Games
Title "Vancouver set for Canada's 'Olympics'" superimposed over athletes doing calisthenics / plane taxiing towards camera at airport / two shots of athletes coming down steps from plane / plane taxiing / athletes coming down steps from plane / CU jacket athlete is wearing with words "Rhodesia Boxing" on pocket / CU jacket athlete is wearing with words "Empire & Commonwealth Games, Vancouver 1954, South Africa" on pocket / CU jacket athlete is wearing with words "British Empire and Commonwealth Games 1954, Canada" on pocket / close shot of female athlete posing for photo opportunity / row of five athletes from British Guyana (now Guyana) with their arms on each other's shoulders posing for photo opportunity / group of athletes from Jamaica posing for photo opportunity / CU jacket athlete is wearing with word "Jamaica" on pocket / shot of swimming pool / swimmers diving off boxes on edge of pool to start race / close shot from behind of sweatshirt athlete is wearing that says "Australia" on its back / row of five Australian female athletes running in place / female athlete throwing discus / Australian sprinter Marjorie Jackson Nelson and another female sprinter come out of starting blocks and run past camera / close shot of Nelson posing for photo opportunity / two shots of athlete from Kenya throwing javelin / New Zealand runner Murray Halberg on left running with two other runners / close shot of Halberg posing for photo opportunity / four Australian runners standing in row at airport posing for photo opportunity, runner John Landry at far right / close shot of Landry / Landry walking away from airport terminal / Note: exact day not known
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Editorial #:
1335966002
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
July 01, 1954
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released.ÌýMore information
Clip length:
00:00:55:12
Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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:
sr004802_01_07
- New Zealand,
- 1950-1959,
- Athlete,
- Javelin,
- Kenya,
- Sport,
- Accuracy,
- Adult,
- Airplane,
- Airport,
- Airport Terminal,
- Archival,
- Arrival,
- At The Edge Of,
- Australia,
- Black And White,
- British Columbia,
- British Empire,
- Canada,
- Commonwealth Games,
- Composite Image,
- Day,
- Discus,
- Distant,
- Diving - Sport,
- Diving Into Water,
- Exercising,
- Females,
- Film - Moving Image,
- Film Composite,
- HD Format,
- Horizontal,
- Jacket,
- Jamaica,
- Looking At Camera,
- Newsreel,
- Opportunity,
- Pocket,
- Portrait,
- Produced Segment,
- Real Time Video,
- Runner - Athlete,
- Running,
- Sports Race,
- Standing,
- Steps,
- Stretching,
- Sweatshirt,
- Swimmer,
- Swimming,
- Swimming Pool,
- Swimming Starting Block,
- Taxiing,
- Text,
- Throwing,
- Travel,
- Vancouver - Canada,
- Video with Sound,
- Walking,
- Women,
- Women's Discus,
- Women's Field Event,
- Women's Javelin,