Royal Tournament (1920)

Olympia, London. Intertitle: “ ... Everyone should see this year’s wonderful show and thus help the Services Charitable Institutions“. L/S of men in T-shirts with . (possible .) doing exercises inside an enormous covered stadium. The men run over to a row of posts in the centre of the stadium, they stand on each others shoulders to fix poles horizontally between the posts. The men on the shoulders jump down, the remainder hang from the poles and do ’chin ups’. The men then use the poles to vault and swing from in an impressive gymnastic display. 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