Learning on ScreenGetting Around
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Getting Around. DESCRIPTION: One of the events in connection with the Paris Boat Show was a rubber dinghy race over the River Seine. Big outboard engines sent them bouncing along at a pretty good lick, but the tricky job was getting round the bends. Take a turn too sharply, and you’re standing on your tail!. And here is the smallest car in the world, a lilliputian motor car, made by a taxi driver in Poland for his four kids. Top speed, five miles an hour. Easy to drive, and they can park on a sixpence! Costs about that to fill her up, too. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV start of rubber dinghy race. GV dinghies racing on the River Seine going under a bridge. MS dinghy. LS same racing. GV same - crowds watching. Various of the race. MS man falls out of dinghy and has to climb back in. GV race. Slip pan. GV smallest car in the world with four children in - father of the children follows with his bike. MS father riding bike alongside kids driving the car. LS children in car. MS father dismounts and points to space for the child to park. MS man fills car up with petrol. MS child watching. CU engine. GV children drive off in car - crowd watch.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Vehicles
- Locations
- France; Paris; Poland
- Footage sources
- Shipment
- Card file number
- 83278A
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 113
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