Fastest Horse - U.S.A (1938)
Item title reads - New champ. World's fastest harness horse.
America (USA).
M/S of the horse 'Billy Direct' stood with trainer and driver Vic Fleming. C/U of Vic and the horse. M/S of Fleming with his sons Billy and Jimmy. M/S of Vic in a gig attached to the horse. C/U of Vic talking about beating the record set by Dan Patch in 1905. Various shots as 'Billy Direct' races along and past the camera, pulling the gig. FILM ID:987.36
Eileen Sheridan (née Shaw le 18 octobre 1923) est une cycliste anglaise spécialisée dans le contre-la-montre et les records sur route.
Elle a battu tous les records* de la Women's Road Records Association à la fin des années 1940 et dans les années 1950, incluant le célèbre Land's End to John o 'Groats : la Grande-Bretagne du nord au sud, 1355 km en 2 jours, 11 hres, 7 mins.; elle a roulé les premiers 756 km sans s'arrêter !!!
Eileen vit (elle a 99 ans) avec sa famille à Isleworth, Middlesex depuis 1952.
*Cinq des records qu'elle a établis n'ont toujours pas été battus, y compris Londres-Édimbourg en 20h 11m 35s, établi en 1954. Son record de 1000 milles (1600 km) en 3 jours et 1 heure a tenu 48 ans jusqu'en 2002.
I would never imagine that I would be able to see how Moscow was in the 60's, internet indeed revolutionised the way we consume media, it makes us capable of doing things once unimaginable.
Channel: British Pathé
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LECTURE 18: COMING APART (PART 1): In February 1968, the Indian spiritual guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918-2008), the leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement, welcomed the members of The Beatles to his ashram in Rishikesh, near the Ganges River, in India, which triggered an avalanche of publicity for the eccentric spiritual spokesman. This decidedly irreverent British Pathé newsreel footage from the time offers a glimpse of the Fab Four at Rishikesh, participating in TM seminars and absorbing Indian culture and living.
Horses from the Vienna's Spanish Riding Academy practise their dancing.
Horses of the famous Vienna's Spanish Riding Academy are put through their paces in their new home at Wels. They dance forward and past each other. The star performer, a white Lipizzaner stallion, goes through its dancing paces, it stands on its hind legs and then performs a Courbette.