Nine Miles at Leicester
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Nine Miles at Leicester. DESCRIPTION: Eight hundred and forty competitors took part in the nine mile English Cross Country Championship near Leicester. Portsmouth Athletic Club won the team event, but the man who stood out supreme among all the hundreds, was electrician Melvyn Batty. He completed the nine miles in forty six minutes thirty four seconds. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV pan mass start of cross country runners. CU crowd. GV runners bunched together. CU same spread out. GV mass runners. MS pan runners. GV same. TS Melvyn Batty. GV pan same approaching finish. CU Batty breaks tape and wins. MS timekeepers. CU the winner Melvyn Batty kissed by girl. Second place went to Mike Turner.
- Keywords
- Sport; Athletics
- Locations
- Leicester; Western Park
- Card file number
- 87992
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 81
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