These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.
The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.
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2977 results found
Olympic Torch
Olympic Torch begins it's journey to Wembley Stadium, 1948
21 MB
1940s, events, video
Olympic Torch
Olympic torch carried into stadium and fire ignited. 1948
13 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympics High Jump
John A. Winter(AUS) wins Olympic High Jump event; Bjorn Paulsen was second, George A. STANICH(USA) took third place 1948
5 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympics High Jump 1
John A. Winter(AUS) wins Olympic High Jump event; Bjorn Paulsen was second, George A. STANICH(USA) took third place 1948
5 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympics Hurdles
Roy B. Cochran of United States wins 400 metres in new Olympic record time of 51.1 sec; Duncan White of Ceylon was second & Rune Larsson of Denmark third.
6 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympics Long Jump
William STEELE(USA)wins mens long jump with a jump of just under 25ft8ins(7.82metres). Thomas Bruce(AUS) second & Herbert Douglas(USA)third. 1948
5 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympics Walking
J. Ljunggren(Sweden)wins 50 Kilometres Road Walk in time of 4 hours 41 mins 52 secs; G. Godel(Switzerland)came second, T. Lloyd Johnson of Britain third.
9 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympics Women's 100 metres
Francina BLANKERSKOEN(Holland) wins womens 100 metres final in a time of 11.9 secs; Dorothy Manley(Britain) came second, Shirley STRICKLAND(Australia) third. 1948
5 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympics Women's Discus
Micheline OSTERMAYER(France) wins womens discus event; Edera Gentile(Italy) sec- ond, Jacqueline MAZEAS(France)third. 1948
6 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympic Canoeing
London Olympics Canoeing in 1948 at Henley
10 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympic Canoeing 2
London Olympics Canoeing in 1948 at Henley
14 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympics Tandem
London Olympics Tandem, 1948
19 MB
1940s, sport, video
