The Speed Queen
This Paramount Sportlight short goes to Holland to feature Fannie Blankers Koen, the Dutch Olympic champion who was named female athlete of the year in 1952. The world-famous athlete is shown in her varied roles as a housewife, mother and record-breaking athlete, and demostrates her abilities in broad (now known as long)and high jumping, sprinting, hurdling and tossing the dicus and javelin. The slow motion camera captures her form in all of these sports events.
- Runtime
- 9m
- Released
- 1953
Details
Release year: 1953
Storyline
This Paramount Sportlight short goes to Holland to feature Fannie Blankers Koen, the Dutch Olympic champion who was named female athlete of the year in 1952. The world-famous athlete is shown in her varied roles as a housewife, mother and record-breaking athlete, and demostrates her abilities in broad (now known as long)and high jumping, sprinting, hurdling and tossing the dicus and javelin. The slow motion camera captures her form in all of these sports events.
Top credits
- Ted Husing — Self - Narrator
- Fanny Blankers-Koen — Self