Swedish Grand Prix

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1420
Date Released
20 Aug 1956
Date submitted
13 Aug 1956
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The Suez Conference
  2. 2Shipwreck off Sydney
  3. 3Swedish Grand Prix
  4. 4South American Town Devastated
  5. 5Over the Sea to Skye
  6. 6Monkey Business

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Swedish Grand Prix. DESCRIPTION: Kristianstad in Southern Sweden, where only six cars finished the sports car Grand Prix and five of them were Ferraris. Victory went to Trintignant at an average of 94.6 SHOTLIST: Shots of the start of the race. Various shots of the race. Car driving through a field. Shots of Maurice Trintignant’s Ferrari (No 3) leaving the road. Car being pushed back onto the track. TPS of Stirling Moss getting out of his car. TPS petrol being put into the car. TPS of flames over the car. People cleaning the foam off the car. Maurice Trintignant drives into the cornfield. Trintignant’s car driving around to win the race.
Keywords
Motor racing
Locations
Sweden; Kristianstad
Footage sources
France
Card file number
67908
Credits:
Commentator
David Lewis Jacobs
Length of story (in feet)
92
Story extras:
Film clip

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