His Home Town’s Welcome (1932)

Full title reads: “Cardiff. His Home Town’s Welcome. Lord Mayor and jubilant crowds greet handsome Jack Petersen - first Welshman to be Britain’s heavy-weight Champion.“ Cardiff, Wales. Welsh boxer Jack Petersen and colleague displaying the Lonsdale belt he won in becoming Britain’s Champion heavy weight. Petersen shows the belt to the Lord Mayor of Cardiff and other civic dignitaries. C/U Jack Petersen - his nose shows him to be a boxer. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984