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Title: BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS No. 937A, AMERICANS WALK OFF WITH THE WALKER CUP

Reference number: 0269

Date: 1947, May 22

Production company: Movietone News

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 2.39 mins

Description: Filmed at the Royal and Ancient golf course, St Andrews. The American captain is presented with the Walker Cup. Will Fyffe and Sir Alexander B. King are spectators.

Credits: Movietone News Vol 19
[comm. Lionel Gamlin]

Shotlist: Credits (0.04) Royal and Ancient Club house and green at St. Andrews. The American team and their wives. Shots of visitors, including Will Fyffe and Sir Alexander B. King (0.33) shots of tents alongside the course for commentators to relay news of the match by walkie-talkie. (0.37) Leader board; The matches in progress, intercut with crowds and men wearing walkie-talkies. Shot of leader board with players' names and scores. (2.16) The American captain, Francis Ouimet, is presented with the trophy; he makes a speech (2.39)