Ascot Gold Cup (1956)

Ascot. GV. Massed crowds assembling for Ascot race. STV. Four women chatting together wearing latest hat fashions. SV. The Aga Khan being helped out of his car by attendants to his wheelchair. CU. Begum Khan smiling. SV. Aga Khan sits down in wheelchair. CU. Aga Khan in wheelchair. GV. Crowds and horses parading round the paddock for the Gold Cup Race. STV. The Queen Elizabeth II arriving and walking towards the paddock. The Princess Royal and Princess Margaret are with her. Princess Margaret wearing a cloche of feathers hat. STV. Two fashionable women. GV. Horses parading in paddock. SV. Young fashionable woman wearing flowered hat, she looks up to camera and holds up umbrella to show flowers on it. CU. Woman with flimsy picture hat. GV. Horses parading up course to starting gate. SV. Horses No 12 Beignet, and No 13 Clichy, parading up course. No 12 goes out of picture. CU. Man with top hat looking through binoculars. GV. Horses lined up for start - tapes up - pan to back view as they race down course. CU. People in grandstands looking through binoculars. GV. Horses racing down the straight for the first time round with Macip in the lead ridden by jockey Serge Boullenger. CU. Pan, Macip in the lead followed by others. CU. Man looking through binoculars. SV. Horses racing down the straight with Macip in the lead the whole time, followed closely by Bewitched and Clichy. Macip passes the post. SV. Top shot, winner being led in. (Neg.) (Title Scene "J") FILM ID:595.23 FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/