Rain Curtails Silverstone Meeting

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1144A

Date Released

10 May 1951

Date submitted

3 May 1951

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1East and West Berlin on May Day
2. 2French Take Prisoners in Indo China
3. 3Rain Curtails Silverstone Meeting
4. 4Turpin Down Uts Wins
5. 5Royal Visitors from Denmark

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rain Curtails Silverstone Meeting. DESCRIPTION: In the final heat of the International Trophy Race at Silverstone, the race had to be called off, due to the heavy rain storm, in the sixth lap. Victory was awarded to Reg Parnell (in a Ferrari) who was leading when the race was stopped. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. CU wheel revolving. GV cars racing round course - dry weather. Raining - mechanics make their way about paddock, others look at their cars. Start of the Trophy (International) Race. Cars flash past camera, Reg Parnell driving a Ferrari shoots through field. Various shots of the cars racing in pouring rain. Into camera shots & out of camera shots. Chequered flag help up to stop race. Parnell gets out of car & shakes hands with an official.

Keywords

Sport; Motor racing

Card file number

55432

Credits:

Camera

David W. Samuelson

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Camera

Paul Wyand

Length of story (in feet)

80

Story extras:

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