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Cinesound Review: John Landy Running Technique
Title:
Cinesound Review: John Landy Running Technique
NFSA ID
9642
Year
1953
Courtesy
Cinesound Movietone Productions
This is one of the best surviving films of John Landy in action is this report filmed by Cinesound cameras in January 1953.
Demonstrating in slow motion the smooth running technique which powered him to multiple middle distance world records the following year, for many movie goers, this would have been the first opportunity to see Landy up close. Filmed at Central Park in Melbourne’s leafy south eastern suburb of Malvern East, the oval was renamed in his honour in 1997.
Summary by Simon Smith
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.