Muddy - Go - Round

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1526
Date Released
1 Sep 1958
Date submitted
24 Aug 1958
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Welcome Home
  2. 2Food of All Nations
  3. 3Miss Great Britain
  4. 4Hussein Visits Royal Navy
  5. 5For Autumn Wear
  6. 6Muddy - Go - Round
  7. 7De Gaulle’s Tour

Story

Story No. within this Issue
6 / 7
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Muddy Go Round. DESCRIPTION: Take a dozen jeeps: send them off on a fifty-mile race on a soggy circuit, in Belgium, And something’s bound to happen, sooner or later! One by one competitors got stuck. A few lucky chaps went on with the race, but jeep after jeep got sucked into the squalid, squelchy swamp of sickening slime. SHOTLIST: KS jeep bounces through mud. LS start - jeeps pass camera. BS jeeps pass camera. Shots different angles - jeeps churn through mud. MS jeeps skid in mud. Another angle stuck in mud. Jeep comes to halt with onlooking crowd. Jeep sticking in mud. Jeeps stuck in mud.
Keywords
Sport; Vehicles; Motor racing; Environment; Curiosities
Locations
Belgium
Footage sources
France
Card file number
74787
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
65
Story extras:
Film clip

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