Spectacular Car Crashes
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Spectacular Car Crashes. DESCRIPTION: The National Sportsman Stock Car Race on a speedway in Pennsylvania - a hundred-mile merry-go-round, and undoubtedly a smash hit. It’s a dead loss all round - for owners, drivers and the insurance people, but no-one gives up till his car’s wrecked or blazing. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Car speeding round circuit. Various shots of dozens of cars racing, crashing, catching fire, still other miss the crashed ones, people fighting the flames of burning cars. Crashes by the dozen. Blown-up from 16 mm.
- Keywords
- Sport; Motor racing; Accidents and disasters
- Locations
- Pennsylvania
- Footage sources
- United States of America
- Card file number
- 56244
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 138
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