Twenty-Four Hours at Le Mans

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

447

Date Released

21 Jul 1963

Date recorded

25 Jun 1963

Length of issue (in feet)

781

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Twenty-Four Hours at Le Mans

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

Pathe synopsis: Twenty-four hours at Le Mans. This is no mere motor race, it’s a great, open-air jamboree with a quarter of a million people thronging the funfair, eating pancakes, drinking their picnic wine and twisting the night away. Pathe Pictorial captures the whole, hectic atmosphere, following families from the racing grandstands to the twenty-four hour dance booths, the tents, the open-air church and the swinging rodeo all to the incessant woosh of the two-hundred-mile-an-hour racing cars. This is a record of the great race that will go into history as, for the first time, a British gas-turbine car - the prototype of tomorrow’s motoring - completed the course faster than the champions of yesterday. [Drivers include Graham Hill, Richie Ginter and Sterling Moss.]

Keywords

Motor racing

Locations

France; Le Mans

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Richard Norton

Length of story (in feet)

743

Story extras:

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