Learning on ScreenWooden Horsepower
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wooden Horsepower. DESCRIPTION: Jen Marsh is one of the designers responsible for the Marcos Eighteen Hundred - a new sports car which combines laminated marine ply-wood with an outer shell of glass fibre. It’s one of the fastest Grand Tourers under two litres, with a top speed of around 130 mph. Controls are adjustable to suit drivers of well over six feet. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV workshops. MS fitting wooden sections of car. CU another. CU sanding down wooden section. MCU finishing touches to section. CU sanding wood. MCU fitting dashboard. GV the designer Mr Jen Marsh with workman. CU designer. GV assembled body placed on chassis. MCU fitting windscreen. CU fitting door. GV engine cover placed into position. MCU dial cover into place. GV finished car in workshop. GV exterior car drives down ramp. GV engine. CU same. CU turning adjustment knob. CU engine partly moving. CU gear operated. GV car drives off. The car is called Marco - GT 1800.
- Keywords
- Vehicles
- Locations
- Bradford-on-Avon
- Card file number
- 87762
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 122
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