Sixty Years On

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1796A

Date Released

7 Nov 1963

Date submitted

1 Nov 1963

Date submitted

3 Nov 1963

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sixty Years On. DESCRIPTION: The entries in the annual Brighton Run is our chance to see - and hear - what motoring was like in its first decade. Many of them have seen more than sixty years. Nearly forty of them were built in the 1890’s, and none of them later than 1904. Over two hundred Veterans reached Brighton within the allotted time. Only sixteen failed to do so. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS veteran cars past camera. CU pan another. LS travelling along road towards Big Ben. GV cars over Westminster Bridge. MS mass of cars past camera. MS tracking panhard Levassor (1899) along road. CU steering wheel of same car. CU carriage lamp on side of Panhard. MCU another Panhard. MS pan men pushing old car along road. MS Peugeot (1904) in lay-by. CU RAC man. MS pushing the Peugeot onto road. MS veteran car. MS tracking veteran cars. ES cars along roadside. MS driver drinking soup. CU same. MS water pouring from underneath car. MS de Dion Bouton leaving roadside. Benz Dogcart (1899). GV traffic jam. Old car past traffic jam. Same up hill. Another past camera. CU gear changing on Panhard. Same passes another car. Pan crowd on sea front. Veteran cars arrive at finish. MS others. MS another car up to finish and applying brakes. GV horse-less carriage.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Competitions

Locations

London; Brighton

Card file number

87480

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Mark McDonald

Length of story (in feet)

188

Story extras:

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