At Home & Abroad: Brescia

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1352A

Date Released

5 May 1955

Date submitted

1 May 1955

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1At Home & Abroad: Leamington
2. 2At Home & Abroad: The Hague
3. 3At Home & Abroad: New York
4. 4At Home & Abroad: Tel Aviv
5. 5At Home & Abroad: Brescia
6. 6At Home & Abroad: Lisbon
7. 7At Home & Abroad: Cannes
8. 8At Home & Abroad: Vienna
9. 9At Home & Abroad: London
10. *Rugby League Cup Final

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 9

Section Title

At Home & Abroad

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Stirling Moss Wins Mille Miglia. DESCRIPTION: When Stirling Moss won the Mille Miglia at Brescia, he was the first British driver to do so. Driving a Mercedes, he broke the record for the event at an average of 97.9 mph. SHOTLIST: GV of the cars going down from starting ramp. CU of Stirling Moss and Jenkinson in car. Various shots of the race. LS of car crash. CU of the crashed car. Moss winning. Car flashes its lights. CU of Moss after the race. Juan Fangio also in this race.

Keywords

Sport; Motor racing

Locations

Italy; Brescia

Footage sources

France

Card file number

63463

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

86

Story extras:

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