Four Minute Fever

• Movies
• 1956-06-08
• EN
• Released
• 0h 9m
• US
• Documentary

• 0.0
• 0

Production

RKO Radio Pictures

Storyline

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.