WRESTLING MATCH
Full length video
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Title: WRESTLING MATCH
Reference number: 9516
Date: 1963*
Director: filmed by A.J.G. Bodie
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2.16 mins
Description: Footage of an outdoor wrestling match filmed at Princess Royal Park in Banff, including various scenes of bouts and a tag team match.
Shotlist: exts two wrestlers and referee in ring at Princess Royal Park in Banff, several people in crowd watching, MacDuff Distillery (?) seen in the distance – wrestler in mask is thrown across the ring, referee breaks them up – c/u masked wrestler grappling opponent on floor of the ring – c/u masked wrestler being grappled by opponent, spectators seen in background (0.24) wide shot youth wrestlers grappling on the floor of the ring after being thrown – c/u youth wrestlers grappling on ring floor, spectators seen in background (0.44) wide shot tag team match, wrestler being thrown to the ground in ring while partners wait outside of ropes, oof – tag team partner grappling opponent from outside the ring (1.12) gvs wrestling bout, various holds and grapples (1.34) opponent being pinned on ground, partner outside the ring kicks at the referee to interrupt the hold (1.53) all four wrestlers in ring, referee waving arms leaves ring, spectators laughing (2.07) referee waves arms in ring, pan to spectators in stand starting to leave (2.16)