Snag it before they yank it
Snag it before they yank it
The first 4 minutes is nothing but Ken Burns crap, still photos and interview clips. If someone can run a mile in 4 minutes, they should manage to show footage of someone running within 4 minutes too.
Maybe cameras hadn't been invented yet.
Ignore Bozo.
Standard doc where the first four minutes introduces the protagonists and provides context for people who don't know much about the subject.
How does Gunder Hagg's 3:43.0 1500m from 1944 convert? That mark was tied but not bettered for ten years.
Larry Laphroaig wrote:
Snag it before they yank it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-73FLztOac
Saw it on BBC4 last night, really enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.
It was OK but didn't feature anything we hadn't seen or heard several times before!
Many young people in Kenya would have broken 4 min a mile when running to school or herding their cattle before Banister.
No one had bothered to timed it.
Banister broke 4 min a mile is like saying Columbus discovered America.
Larry Laphroaig wrote:
Ignore Bozo.
Standard doc where the first four minutes introduces the protagonists and provides context for people who don't know much about the subject.
No reason you can't do that by showing actual milers actually running. Unless you're too cheap to license the footage that is.
Burns effects are pretentious and lame, and any doc that uses them that much is worthless. Good for bourgeois pseudo-intellectual snobs though.
boroo wrote:
Many young people in Kenya would have broken 4 min a mile when running to school or herding their cattle before Banister.
No one had bothered to timed it.
Banister broke 4 min a mile is like saying Columbus discovered America.
You lost all credibility by not even being able to manage to spell "Bannister" correctly. How is that possible? You're a runner. He's one of the barrier breakers of your sport. You've likely read his name countless times over the years, including the posters (and title) above you. How do you yet manage to perform such an epic fail?
I thoroughly enjoyed the film … And I actually love the “Ken Burns crap.â€
Makes me excited for when Caster Semenya will be the first woman to do it.
Thanks for sharing that. I tend to forget how long after the end of the war the rationing continued.
Fantastic to hear from people who were there as spectators and the fellow (whose name escapes me) who was in the race but effectively a spectator.
Loved the piece at the end with Masback too.
I met Sir Bannister in the mid 90s. Ranks up near the top of the list in terms of famous people I have met.
luv2run wrote:
Thanks for sharing that. I tend to forget how long after the end of the war the rationing continued.
Fantastic to hear from people who were there as spectators and the fellow (whose name escapes me) who was in the race but effectively a spectator.
Loved the piece at the end with Masback too.
I met Sir Bannister in the mid 90s. Ranks up near the top of the list in terms of famous people I have met.
That was George Dole, an American who was at Oxford getting a divinity degree. Wound up being a minister in Maine.
Please stop posting about Bannister the doper.