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cadencejubilate has shared a video with you on YouTube: Quite Unfit for Females (1921) Topical Budget (the great British newsreel that ran from 1911-31) here presents a light-hearted item on the Football Association's proposed ban on women's football. Women's football was extremely popular in the 1920s. Indeed, on Boxing Day 1920, 53,000 fans packed into Goodison Park to watch the Dick, Kerr's Ladies beat the St Helens Ladies 4-0. It's hard to tell whether or not this news item supported the ban, though its cameraman clearly enjoyed observing the players in their knitted kit undergoing a rigorous exercise regime. And keep your eyes peeled for a very dodgy-looking chap in tweeds and a Hitler moustache. (Robin Baker) (This is a higher-quality version of a video first published on YouTube in February 2008.) For more information about Topical Budget newsreels see http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/583128/index.html You can watch over 2000 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Arch... more
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