An amateur film believed to be showing competitors taking part in the Paralympic Games or Paralympics at Stoke Mandeville Sports Stadium in Aylesbury. Athletes from across the country, including Percy Hedley School in Newcastle, compete in various track, field and swimming events. However, the main emphasis of the film is archery which features prominently and continues in final third of the film with archery events taking place at other locations. Lettering along the side of a building...

An amateur film believed to be showing competitors taking part in the Paralympic Games or Paralympics at Stoke Mandeville Sports Stadium in Aylesbury. Athletes from across the country, including Percy Hedley School in Newcastle, compete in various track, field and swimming events. However, the main emphasis of the film is archery which features prominently and continues in final third of the film with archery events taking place at other locations. Lettering along the side of a building reads The Stoke Mandeville Sports Stadium, along the pathway into the stadium a number of disabled and able bodied people sit or stand together chatting. Inside the stadium a number of competitors begin a race walking as fast as they are able around the running track. They are followed by more walkers either starting their own race or being staggered as part of the first race. Nearby a number of people stand around a man in a smart suit who signs autographs. A number of wheelchair competitors make ready to race, an able bodied man stands beside them wearing a blue sports jacket with ‘B.P.F Wakefield Yorks' stitched onto the back. The man seen previously signing autographs fires the starting pistol and the wheelchair race begins. At an indoor swimming pool a race is underway with competitors swimming along lanes and those following on diving into the water. A small crowd watch those in the water swimming using various types of stroke. Around a table on which sit silver trophies are a number of well dressed men and women. The race ends and the winning team celebrate by jumping into the pool A man with one leg uses crutches to walk away from the trophy table with his award. He walks behind a female swimmer who also holds a trophy and is being carried by an older woman. Outside on a sports field a woman in red trousers puts the shot inside a circle. She is followed by a second woman in a wheelchair putting her shot. On the race track another wheelchair competitor throws a large brown ball down the track, a second man stands behind holding the chair stable. On an archery range a woman and a man, both in wheelchairs, fire arrows from bows at targets in the near distance. At another part of the track a man and woman, both in wheelchairs prepare then throw a discus. Back at the racing circuit spectators on both sides of the track cheer on a wheelchair race and another running race. On a field two competitors dribble a football around a number of obstacles. More races take place on the track. At another part of the stadium a line of wheelchair archers fire arrows at their targets. One competitor not in a wheelchair holds the bow string under his chin before firing. Some of the women wear plastic caps or hoods on their heads protecting them rain. Another woman seated on a chair rather than a wheelchair has plastic draped over her legs as she pulls her bow and fires an arrow. More competitors fire their arrows at targets in the near distance. Fired arrows litter the field sticking out of the ground near the targets. A number of able bodied archers fire arrows at the targets alongside those in wheelchairs. At one of the targets a judge counts and collects arrows. Behind them three women, one in a wheelchair sit chatting possibly writing down scores. The film changes to a different field possibly not at Stoke Mandeville where a man and woman are firing arrows at a target. Along with a second woman they go over to the target to remove their arrows before firing them again. They help a fourth woman in a wheelchair who also fires arrows at the target. A flag flies in a field near to a parked van and caravan. Nearby two men stand beside a second flag showing an arrow and the year 1873 printed or stitched on it. A line of five arrow targets are set up in a line beside another flag this time showing a Panda Bear. Archers line up and a man uses a pair if binoculars to look at the distant targets. A number of competitors fire arrows, several are seated. Judges stand around the targets collecting scores and arrows before walking away. Competitors fire their arrows at the targets again. The film ends on a woman in a wheelchair and a second sitting nearby shooting arrows at her target.