Item title reads – Physical fitness. Government’s concern for the nation.

Battersea, London.

M/S of schoolboys doing star jumps, the camera pans across the rows to Sir Kingsley Wood, the Minister of Health, and Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Education who are watching. This is a new incentive to improve the physical fitness of young people.

M/S as they do stretching exercises, M/S as boys balance and bend on a bar for strength, others do backward rolls. Various shots as they somersault, vault and jump through a hoop. M/S of Kingsley Wood suggesting the Cabinet and House of Commons should do these exercises as well!
FILM ID:897.19

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