Holiday Weather & Crowds: Athletes - England V France

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1261A

Date Released

6 Aug 1953

Date submitted

4 Aug 1953

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Section Title

Holiday Weather & Crowds

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Holiday Weather and Crowds - Games. DESCRIPTION: Another way of spending the holiday was at the White City, where teams from Great Britain and France were competing in a two-day meeting. The highlight of the meeting was the new 4 x 1 Mile relay World record set up by Messr. Chataway, Nankeville, Seaman and Bannister. SHOTLIST: WHITE CITY - Parade of British and French teams. Start of 110 yard relay and finish. Start of 3,000 metres steeplechase. Jump hedges & water. No 3 Johnson wins. Start of 100 yards Bonino of France wins. 1 mile relay start, various shots during same. Relay team that breaks record is Nankeville. Chataway, Seaman and Bannister. Bannister finishes alone. CU of four after race.

Keywords

Sport; Records; Athletics; Ceremonies

Footage sources

Gaumont

Card file number

59488

Credits:

Camera: Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Camera: James Humphries
Commentator: Lionel James Gamlin
Camera: Martin Gray
Camera: Paul Wyand

Length of story (in feet)

188

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