Nine Hours Race

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1368A
Date Released
25 Aug 1955
Date submitted
22 Aug 1955
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1USA and Back in a Day
  2. 2Flood Disaster
  3. 3Moroccan Rising
  4. 4Townsend Rides a Winner
  5. 5Nine Hours Race
  6. 6The Royal Family Behind the Counter
  7. *Edinburgh Festival
  8. *Springboks Victory

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Goodwood - Nine Hour Car Race. DESCRIPTION: At Goodwood the Nine Hour race was won by an Aston Martin with strong competition from Jaguars, Porsche etc. SHOTLIST: GV of cars at speed. GV of drivers running to their cars. CU of Stirling Moss jumping into car and starts. GV of the start. Various CUs of drivers at speed. Mike Hawthorn and Moss. CU of No 3 Denis Poore and Peter Walker car. CU of Moss coming into pits. CU of Moss getting out of car. Various CUs mechanics at work. GV of cars racing, sunset in background. CU of Lights On sign. Various night scenes of cars at speed. CU of Bend sign illuminated by the headlights. Winners being flagged in and drinking. Winners are Peter Walker and Denis Poore.
Local distribution only
Not shown in Scotland.
Keywords
Motor racing
Locations
Sussex; Goodwood
Card file number
64348
Credits:
Camera
David W. Samuelson
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Soundman
George E. Collings
Camera
Paul Wyand
Length of story (in feet)
101
Story extras:
Film clip

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