Recherche dans la collection - Four Minute Fever

DE MOHRENSCHILDT, Walter

1977-0240

Film

1 of 1

1956

RKO Pathe

producer, Earle Luby; narrator, Harry Wismer

The battle for the four-minute mile. Sequences on the famed Finnish runner, Pavao Nurmi, running, lighting flame at Helsinski Olympics in 1948, meeting Mayor Laguardia in New York, parading in New York on a fund raising tour for Finnish War Relief, etc. Sequence on Jules Ladoumegue of France racing. Shots of the Tour de France, of Paris newsboys cycling through Paris with their newspapers. Shots of Richard Lovelock of New Zealand, Glen Cunningham of the United States, Sydney Wooderson of the United Kingdom, Roger Bannister breaking four-minute mile, John Landry doing likewise. Views of Bannister and Landy racing at the Vancouver British Empire Games in 1954.

English

Libre

V1 2009-11-0034

with the written permission of the copyright owner : no donor restrictions