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Topical Budget 536-2: Eton Wall Game (1921)
 

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5/12/1921
35mm, 63 feet, black & white, silent
 
Production CompanyTopical Film Company

Eton school's peculiar version of football.

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The Eton Wall Game is one of those bizarre rituals that only the British public school system could throw up. The traditional Collegers and Oppidan game is played annually on St Andrew's Day. The rules are obscure; decades have passed without a goal being scored. The keen-eyed might like to try and detect one of the Eton schoolboys who is known to have taken part in this match, Eric Blair - the future George Orwell.

Luke McKernan

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Topical Budget: British Identity and the Empire