Great Britain Beats France

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1470A

Date Released

8 Aug 1957

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Queen at Jamboree
2. 2The Duke Plays Cricket
3. 3Great Britain Beats France
4. 4Fangio - Champion Driver
5. 5Bull Fights Man
6. 6Holiday Travel
7. *The Rangers’ Sports

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

International Athletics at White City, sponsored by the News of the World. A highlight of the first day was the three miles, the winner was Derek Ibbotson. Thelma Hopkins, winning the high jump at 5’4, helped the British women to win their events. On the second day Derek Ibbotson competed in the Invitation Two miles, taking over from the competition, he rapidly increased his lead, coming up to the tape he was 20 yards ahead, to finish in a time of 8 minutes 44 seconds.

Keywords

Sport; Mass media; Athletics

Locations

London

Card file number

71407

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

113

Story extras:

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