Bannister

Selected Originals - Four Minute Mile AKA 4 Minute Mile (1954)

Material relating to newsreel story "Four Minute Mile (aka 4 Minute Mile)" - 54/35.

Selected Originals - Queen Sees A.A.A. Championships (1952)

Material relating to newsreel story "Queen Sees A.A.A. Championships" - 52/52

Four Minute Mile AKA 4minute Mile

Roger Bannister achieves every runner's ambition to run the mile in under 4 minutes.

European Games - Bannister Wins

Bannister wins 1500 m race, Chataway beats Zatopek and Thelma Hopkins wins high jump.

Medical School (1954)

Athlete Roger Bannister and other medical students doing research at St. Mary's Hospital.

Champs Runs To Aid Churches (1954)

Bannister, Chataway, Brasher and Pirie run with money for 'Save the Churches' campaign.

Queen Mother Visits St. Mary's Medical School Reel 1 (1954)

Various shots of the Queen Mother at the Centenary Award Ceremony and receiving Penicillin Culture Plate from Sir Alexander Fleming which she seals in new foundation stone.