Demon Super-Speeder

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

758-1

Date Released

4 Mar 1926

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Demon Super-Speeder
2. 2Fixing Fido’s Face
3. 3Spring is Here - Perhaps!
4. 4Spring is Fickle
5. 5Oxford’s Giant Oarsmen

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Major Segrave’s 150 miles an hour in his hurricane ‘Hush-Hush’ on Southport beach." Segrave seated in his car with men standing round. Close-up, side view, of him adjusting his goggles. Starting off the car. Three shots of the car racing along the beach. Pulling up after the run. Final close-up.

Keywords

Vehicles; Records

Length of story (in feet)

47

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

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Phone

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Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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