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Title: RIDING DISPLAY 1952 PAGEANT HAZELDEN 1953

Reference number: 10454

Date: 1952 / 1953

Director: filmed by Averil and Willie Murdoch

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.56 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a horse-riding display and a costume pageant at an equestrian centre.

Shotlist: Shots of boys gathered outside a stable on horseback. Adults are shown speaking to the boys and grooming the horses. People sitting on chair at the sides of the walled paddock. Shots of riding display, the children are shown managing and riding their horses. Shots of some of the riders being given awards. Shots of one of the riders attempting to get her horse to jump over a series of fences. The horse swerves each time to avoid the fence. Shots of riders doing an obstacle course and riding around the paddock. Some over-exposed shots of yachts on the water INSTITUTE OF AMATEUR CINEMATOGRAPHERS - A MEMBER’S FILM
People in uniform arrive in a walled paddock. The people parade around the arena. A man arrives with a horse and a foal. Shots of the audience. Series of shots as the riders try to jump fences. Shots of dogs and their trainers in the paddock, the dogs do an obstacle course. Boys on horseback dressed as cowboys, children dressed as Native Americans arrive and steal the horses. People dressed as a bull arrive, other people dressed as matadors and approach the bull. Shots of men on horseback playing polo. Shots of another scene, a tent is shown set up. A cowboy goes into the tent and a cloaked man steals his horse.