Pictorial Parade No. 24

Members of the NZ team for the 1954 Vancouver Empire Games are profiled in this edition of the Pictorial Parade series. Yvette Williams demonstrates the long jump technique — filmed in slow motion — that had made her an Olympic champ and world record holder (and would win her the gold medal at Vancouver), and there’s a brief shot of a young Murray Halberg. Other features are a piece about the canine star of Dick Campion and the NZ Players' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a multi-national approach to treating children with cerebral palsy in Rotorua.

Limbering up is Olympic and World Champion Yvette Williams. A jump of 20 foot, five and three-quarter inches at Helsinki gained an Olympic title, and recently, at a meeting in New Zealand, Yvette’s magnificent effort of 20 foot, seven and one-eighth inches realised her ambition of beating the world record.

– From the narration,