Summary

Egypt's Abdel Latif Abu Heif wins English Channel derby

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # D-7065
Clip SR004855_01_07.mov
Date 8/15/1955
Title Egypt's Abdel Latif Abu Heif wins English Channel derby
Description Title: "16 Start, 3 Finish - Egyptian Wins Channel Derby" superimposed over swimmer preparing for swim / [Cap Gris-Nez, France] MS gun fires for start of race and swimmers start toward water / Rear view of swimmers into water / MS swimmers in water / MS gendarmes looking on / MS Abdel Latif Abu Heif, swimmer from Egypt, swimming along side boat / MS Thomas Park, English-born American swimmer, swimming alongside boat / Rear view of men looking over side of boat / MS Madge Magrath, swimmer from Great Britain, being paced / MS Damien Beltram, swimmer from Mexico, swimming / MS Park swimming / MS Park's escort vessel pitching in sea // [UK, Dover] VS approaching Dover Cliffs / LS Park out of water, walks over rocks and stumbles / WS coast at Folkestone and Dover / MS Heif into Folkestone in little boat / CU Heif showing Egyptian flag / WS rear view of crowd at Folkestone harbor / MS crowd around Heif / CU Billy Butlin, Operator of summer camps in England and sponsor for this swim (the Butlins International Cross Channel Swimming Race), presenting cup to Heif / Heif shaking hands with Park / Note: exact day not known
Personality Abdel Latif Abu Heif, Thomas Park, Madge Magrath, Damien Beltram, Billy Butlin
Country United Kingdom
City Folkestone

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