Olympic Cavalcade (1948)

Bill Slater: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : This is a war of sportsmen and athletes from all over the world. Fought on the playing field instead of the battlefield and victory is the sweeter because of it.

• Narrator : And there's our own Harold Cagle from Oklahoma Baptist University coming up fast. But, Fritz leads, then Cagle, then Wolff.

• Narrator : This is poetry in motion.

• Narrator : The race was so close the judges are comparing stopwatches. The crowd is in suspense and, brother, so are the swimmers.

• Narrator : Now the amazing Owens is definitely on the spot. Winner of three Olympic championships at these games, so far, he has one jump left and he must beat Long's record jump.

  [Jessie jumps] 

  Narrator : Twenty-six feet five and five/sixteenths inches. A new world's record. Jessie Owens, winner of four Olympic championships at these games and a real credit to the USA.

• Narrator : The 62-mile bicycle race. Twenty-nine nations represented. A hundred competitors are getting ready. Usually the rider races against time only. But, today it'll be a mass start. The French team are the favorites.

• Narrator : Glenn Morris draws away from the other two with a dynamic burst of speed and he's got the field to himself. Morris, the 180-pound automobile salesman from Denver, wins in the good time of 11 and 1/10 seconds.

• Narrator : [Last lines]  What magnificent stamina. This is athletic history. Glenn Morris, the greatest all-around athlete in the world, gets to the tape for the last time. He's broken his own world's record with a master total of 7,900 points. Second, Bobby Clark, America. Third, Jackie Parker, America. Fourth, Huber, the best European. Glenn Morris, Bobby Clark, Jack Parker; all three men better than the previous Olympic record. A spectacular victory for the United States!