Dice on the Ice

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1709

Date Released

5 Mar 1962

Date submitted

26 Feb 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Cathedral Preview
2. 2Plug in to the Patients
3. 3A Date with Dior
4. 4Dice on the Ice
5. 5As Emett Sees It!

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Dice on the Ice. DESCRIPTION: A Le Mans - type start for a motor race on a frozen lake near Quebec is the sport which is growing in popularity with city workers at weekends. 10 laps to go in the Grand Prix. Chains or spikes (or anything like that) are strictly forbidden. And, of course, there is a winner!. Now, our pictures show a German tracked snow-bike, the first of its kind. It can carry one or two people, and has a maximum speed of about 40 miles an hour. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV start. GV ditto. GV cars pass left to right. AS race in progress. MS car. MS driver. MLS car skids. MS saloon car skids off track into snow. MS slid into finish. (6 shots) man on snow-bike.

Keywords

Motor racing; Weather; Motorcycling

Locations

Quebec; Germany; Canada

Footage sources

Germany
National Film Board of Canada

Card file number

83972

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

126

Story extras:

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