News in Brief: Turbine Car

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1413

Date Released

2 Jul 1956

Date submitted

26 Jun 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Commonwealth Premiers Meet
2. 2Egypt Celebrates
3. 3Warships for Israel
4. 4News in Brief: Lucy Retains Title
5. 5News in Brief: Turbine Car
6. 6News in Brief: A Future Fashion
7. 7Aviation: Moscow Air Day
8. 8Aviation: US Bases in Spain
9. 9Aviation: Giant Aircraft Factory
10. *Princess Margaret in Stoke

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 9

Section Title

News in Brief

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Turbine Car. DESCRIPTION: The Shooting Star with its plastic body on advanced aero dynamic design, is France’s first turbine car. Making its public debut on the Montlhery track near Paris, it went round at over a hundred and twenty. SHOTLIST: Various shots of car going around track. SCU car. Steering wheel. The name of the car is Shooting Star. Plastic body. The car can do 120 mph.

Keywords

Vehicles

Locations

France; Paris; Montlhery

Footage sources

France

Card file number

67421

Credits:

Commentator

David Lewis Jacobs

Length of story (in feet)

38

Story extras:

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