Twenty-Four Hours at Le Mans
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
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:
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- Commentator
- Richard Norton
- Length of story (in feet)
- 743
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