British Victory at Silverstone

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1197A

Date Released

15 May 1952

Date submitted

12 May 1952

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Miss Horsburgh Visits Schools
2. 2New Danish Church Consecrated
3. 3Another A-Bomb Test
4. 4Britain’s Service Boxing Win
5. 5British Victory at Silverstone
6. 6Motor Cycle Mountaineering
7. *Keenan in Training
8. *Newcastle Leave for South Africa

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: International Trophy Meeting. British Victory at Silverstone. DESCRIPTION: Tens of thousands of fans were at Silverstone for the International Trophy Meeting. Lance Macklin, driving a HWM, won for Great Britain at an average speed of 85.41 mph. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. CU No 25 car racing. Crowds. Cars in pits getting attention. Cars racing, one crashes into crowds, person flung about. Robert Manzon, Hawthorn, gets into car. CU Behra. CU Lance Macklin. De Graffenreid. Start of final race. Wide angle cars racing. CU No 33 Wharton, Peter Collins No 29, Mike Hawthorn, No 11, Lance Macklin, No 31, Macklin goes ahead and wins. Climbs out of car. Says a few words into mike about winning. CU handed the trophy & CU of him with trophy.

Keywords

Sport; Motor racing; Ceremonies; Accidents and disasters

Card file number

57188

Credits:

Camera

David W. Samuelson

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Paul Wyand

Length of story (in feet)

222

Story extras:

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