British Athletes Surprise Hungary (1956)

Budapest, Hungary. GV. The two teams, Hungary and Great Britain walking onto the arena at the start of the athletic meeting in Budapest. GV. Massed crowd. LV. British and Hungarian girl athletes exchange flowers in centre of arena. CU. Girls run back to their respective teams. GV. Massed crowds at stadium. CU. Starter fires gun. LV. The runners start for the 5,000 metres and camera pans with them. Sandor Iharos from Hungary goes straight into the lead followed by Chris Chataway. SV. Pan as Iharos leaves Chataway by about two yards, Derek Ibbotson is third at about the same distance. LV. Pan of the three runners in the same order - Chataway turns as if to speak to Ibbotson. CU. Pan, Iharos in the lead. CU. Pan of Iharos’ legs. LV. Towards and pan - Chataway takes up the running from Iharos. SV. Pan as Chataway leaves Iharos - Ibbotson third. SCU. People in crowd. SV. Last lap is on, with Chataway slightly ahead of Iharos. Ibbotson comes past the pair of them on the outside to pan with them as Chataway goes