Needle-Threading Competition

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Needle-Threading Competition

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Details

Location

Belfast

Year

1965

Date

Production 31/03/1965

Length

04min 27sec

Audio

mute, sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Intense film of a needle-threading competition in Belfast. Charlie Witherspoon reports on this gripping sport as competitors try to get as many threads as they can through the eye of a needle. Mrs Lercock tells Charlie why men have tended to be better at this than women. Margaret Bustard is declared the winner and goes forward to the UK final. 

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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