This amateur film by Stephen Gray documents the Sport Aid Run in Gateshead on 25 May 1986, a world-wide event to raise money for African famine relief, which was a continuation of Bob Geldof's Band Aid and Live Aid campaigns. The Sports Aid Run gets underway in Gateshead. Charity runners race past in fancy dress. Crowds watch beside the road, one woman using binoculars. A group hold up a banner reading "Coxhoe Taverners Run the World". Overhead shot of a mass of runners...

This amateur film by Stephen Gray documents the Sport Aid Run in Gateshead on 25 May 1986, a world-wide event to raise money for African famine relief, which was a continuation of Bob Geldof's Band Aid and Live Aid campaigns. The Sports Aid Run gets underway in Gateshead. Charity runners race past in fancy dress. Crowds watch beside the road, one woman using binoculars. A group hold up a banner reading "Coxhoe Taverners Run the World". Overhead shot of a mass of runners passing a stage with a presenter commentating at a microphone. A bunch of coloured balloons are released. More runners race down the road. Another overhead shot shows the runners as a mass of bobbing heads. Closer shots of participants follow from the kerbside, the runners still bunched together. These are intercut with shots of the runners' feet. A banner on a pedestrian bridge reads "Junior Start". General view of the runners heading through Gateshead. A sign at the end of a row of terraces reports on a road closure due to the race. Runners pass the end of the street in the distance. Some of the participants pass beneath a bridge over a dual carriageway (probably Park Road) in Gateshead. Some of the tired ones are walking now. Two men dressed up in slinky shorts stroll up the road amidst the runners. A woman watches from a pedestrian bridge over the route. A policeman at the event is chatting with another in a police car. At the 5 mile marker, some runners jog past. A view down the Felling bypass records the mass of runners bunched together in the left hand lane heading towards Gateshead Stadium. Participants walk or jog past camera, kerbside. A young boy runs past quickly wearing an "I ran the world" T-shirt. A crowd walk by, including participants in fancy dress running for charities. Three young women in maid's outfits saunter up the road. Some of the runners are visibly tired as they walk by in the last stages of the run. Others are still running, including a woman dressed as a schoolgirl hockey player, some women in schoolgirl outfits and garters, and clown outfits. One happy woman raises her arms up to camera in a gesture of triumph, smiling. Near the finish line, a band are playing on a small stage, one musician on tuba. A general view follows of Sports Aid participants in front of the entrance to Gateshead International Stadium. They continue to arrive at the end of their run, including a gang of firemen wearing gas masks and fulll uniform. Inside the stadium, a sign at the finish line reads: 'Race Against Time Gateshead'. There's a big crowd in the stands as those taking part gather around the finish line. After the event, people slowly head back home down the Felling bypass. The footage ends with a shot [unrelated to Sports Aid Run] of a man staring over at a viaduct in the landscape.