The Great Snail Race (1969)

Strumpshaw, Norfolk. This seems to be some kind of village fete with a French theme. French Gendarme, bottles of French wine. MS Line of people carrying worlds largest French loaf, 39 ft. long. People look at paintings and buy garlic. CU Bowl full of live snails. VS The snails being numbered and put onto large table, they crawl over a course 52 inches long, CU snails in action. MS More wine being poured and drunk. Lots of smiling faces in this film - were you there?! (Orig. Neg.) 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), a
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