CANADA: ’Centipede’ race (1919)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Scenes showing a variety of canoe races. Full Description: CANADA: British Columbia: Victoria: TITLE: This is known as a Centipede race. ..Victoria, B.C.: Canadian girls defeat a crew from US MV 3 women in swimming costumes paddling canoe with their bare hands, camera follows to LS as they reach the jetty, just beating another boat. SV team (8 men) in canoe. TITLE: Indian war canoe race. SV 2 teams sitting in canoes, resting paddles before start of race. SV teams start paddling off. LS canoes past in race (4 canoes). LS canoes past. LS canoes paddled past to finish, 3 spectators sitting on back(back view), smoke of finishing gun and spectators wave their handkerchiefs Background: Scenes showing a variety of canoe races. FILM ID: VLVA1CP7KYH3JFQWY63FG0WAFN2KV To license this film, visit