Four Minute Fever

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.

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Harry Wismer

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Paavo Nurmi

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Harry Wismer

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Fiorello LaGuardia

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Arne Andersson

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Jules Ladoumegue

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Bill Bonthron

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John Lovelock

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Glenn Cunningham

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Gene Venzke

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Sidney Wooderson

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Gunder Hägg

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