Nine Miles at Leicester

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1813A
Date Released
5 Mar 1964
Date submitted
1 Mar 1964
Date submitted
29 Feb 1964
Stories in this 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:
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
81
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Nine Miles at Leicester', British Movietone News Issue No. 1813A, 5 Mar 1964. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/25456 (Accessed 23 Jun 2025)