Overview
Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It starts in the 1920's, when Finland's Paavo Nurmi set the record for the distance at 4 minutes 10.4 seconds. It continues through Roger Bannister's first run under 4 minutes in 1954, and ends in spring 1956, when Australia's Joe Bailey became the first to break 4 minutes on US soil.
Year 1956
Studio RKO Radio Pictures
Director William Deeke
Crew Earle Luby (Producer), Arthur Weiss (Editor), William Deeke (Director), Louis Turchen (Music Editor), Maurice Rosenblum (Sound Recordist)
Popularity 0
Language English
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