British Games Records - White City

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1356A

Date Released

2 Jun 1955

Date submitted

31 May 1955

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: British Games Records. DESCRIPTION: The International Mile at the British Games was won by the Hungarian Tabori in 3 minutes 59 seconds, while Chris Chataway and Brian Hewson both broke four minutes. In the International two miles, Ken Wood fought a duel with another Hungarian, Iharos. The Hungarian won in the new World record time of 8 minutes 33.4 seconds. SHOTLIST: GV of start of the race. GVs and CUs or race. Finish. CU of the winner Tabori. Start of the 2 miles. GV of the race. Crowd shot. Iharos wins. Mile - Brian Hewson - 3rd,. Chris Chataway - 2nd,. Tabori - 1st. 2 Miles - Tabori,. Iharos - 1st,. Ken Wood - 2nd.

Keywords

Sport; Athletics

Locations

White City, London

Footage sources

Gaumont

Card file number

63699

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

113

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