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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

5374

Title

[GIRLS' GYMNASTICS]

Producer

Mr & Mrs John Anthony Pownall

Date

1981

Gauge

spr8mm

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Running Time

17 mins 03 secs

Description

Girls' amateur gymnastics team at Macclesfield Leisure Centre - indoor practice is followed by an outdoor exhibition of floor routines and horse vaulting. The team is then seen indoors doing floor work, the beam and parallel bars followed by a group shot of the team in their tracksuits. Further scenes of outdoor horse vaulting, and the film ends with Sarah Jayne Pownall practising bar work and floor routines in the family garden.

[Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]

 

 



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