The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race is an 1895 British short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Birt Acres. It was filmed on 30 March 1895.
This film became the first in the UK to be commercially screened outside London and was displayed at Cardiff Town Hall on 5 May 1896.
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