🎬British Pathé – Traditional ceremony carried out a start of salmon fishing season by local vicar. Blessing the water at Muddeford. Originally part of News in a Nutshell - international news stories in brief. Muddeford, nr. Bournemouth, Dorset. Traditional ceremony at beginning of each year's salmon fishing. Various shots of procession of people and choir boys, led by Reverend Eric Dickson, walking down to beach. The vicar gives a short service. Various of Rev. Dickson in a rowing boat blessing the waters. Note: old records spell village name - Mudeford.

🎬British Pathé – Item title reads - Bravo Bournemouth! Heroes of fifth round - force "the Hammers" to a replay - with meritorious 1 - 1 draw. Location unknown. (Bournemouth versus West Ham). M/S as the football teams run out onto the pitch. The referee shakes hands with the captains and they do the same, the coin is tossed. Various shots of the match, goalkeeper saves a goal then one is scored.

🎬British Movietone - The April sale of New Forest ponies at Brockenhurst. The half wild ponies are brought in for auction, six times a year, and if taken in hand young, they are docile and easy to break in. GV ponies grazing in New Forest. SV pan pony led out of horse-box. 3 SVs ponies led in from forest, pan ponies led out of horse-box into paddock. GV diesel train towards camera to GV paddock and auction ring. SV horses in paddock. CU sign "Value Added Tax". SCU horses in paddock. LV ponies in pens having numbers stuck on their backs. SV man sticks number on back of pony. SCU 2 ponies. CU number on back pan up to pony's head. SV ponies leaving paddock for auction ring. LV pony No 5 being auctioned in ring. SCU pony trotting round ring. SV auctioneer completes bid. SV girl in crowd. SV pan pony leaves ring, another pony enters. SV buyers watching. LV pony No 18 being auctioned. SCU auctioneer. SCU woman buyers. CU pony in ring. SV pony leaves auction ring. LV horses in paddock as one horse rears up & almost breaks loose. SV pan young boy owner trying horse over jump. CU people watching. SV pan owner riding away on pony.

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬British Movietone - NO SOUND - Auction in progress - yearly sale of the new forest ponies. Pigs, Ponies and speeding vehicles

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬British Pathé – Boy Scouts build stables and hut for army near Winchester. Title reads: "HANDY BOY SCOUTS build huts and stables for Kitchener's Army near Winchester". Winchester, Hampshire. Pan on scene of boys working on long building with frame near completion, some of the boys are up on top, others on the ground. Boys pushing a small cart along a track. MS boys loading pipes onto it, then running as they push it back. The Scouts put up pieces of corrugated metal (to be walls of the building?). Then they lift what looks like 2 half-cylinders side by side and put these onto a long frame of an incomplete building so that they form 2 long troughs about chest-high, probably for the stable. Construction, volunteers, war work, World War One homefront activity

🎬British Pathé – The Mayor of Bournemouth cuts ribbon to inaugurate the extension of the town boundaries. Full title reads: "Hampshire. Bigger Bournemouth! Mayor and Corporation inaugurate extension of boundaries - nearly doubling size - of famous seaside resort." Bournemouth, Hampshire. The Mayor of Bournemouth and other local civic dignitaries walk along road in procession. They stop at a tape across the road which the Mayor, after making a speech (mute), cuts. They then proceed to walk into the newly extended part of Bournemouth. The Mayor, Percy May Bright, lays a ceremonial stone marking the extension of the boundary. The Mayor is welcomed to the new area.