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:
Film clip

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