Athletics - Towards Tokyo
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Athletics - Towards Tokyo. DESCRIPTION: During Britain’s athletics match against Poland at the White City, Robbie Brightwell achieved victory in the four hundred metres. In the eighty metres hurdles Mrs Pat Pryce beat Maria Piatkowska. Mike Bullivant was to win the 10,000 metres, and Mary Rand won the Long Jump, with a leap of twenty one feet, seven inches. In the 4 x 400 Metres Relay race, Graham, Metcalfe, Cooper and Brightwell repeated their Bank Holiday success. SHOTLIST: GREAT BRITAIN V POLAND Key scene. LS start of 400 metres. MCU audience. Pan Robbie Brightwell wins 400 metres race. MS same. CU Brightwell. CU starter. Pan women’s 80 metres hurdles. CU Pat Pryce and Mary Rand. MS start of 10,000 metres. LS same race in progress. CU same. CU man with binoculars. MS Mary Rand in long jump. MLS 10,000 metres in progress. MS bell rung for last lap. LS Mike Bullivant wins race. CU Mike Bullivant. LS start of 4 x 400 metres relay. GV crowd. LS first hand over. MS crowd. LS 2nd hand over. MS crowd. 3rd hand over. MS crowd. LS Robbie Brightwell comes home first. Badenski (400 metres) - Polish, Maria Piatkowska (80 metres hurdles) - Polish - 2nd, Martin Hyman (10,000 metres) - 3rd. Podalek (10,000 metres) - 2nd - Polish. Cooper, Graham, Metcalfe, Brightwell(4 X 400 metres relay).
- Keywords
- Sport; Athletics
- Locations
- White City, London
- Card file number
- 88721
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 201
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