Demolition Derby!

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1819

Date Released

13 Apr 1964

Date Other

Mar 1964

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Demolition Derby!. DESCRIPTION: For the first time in Australia, a Demolition Derby was staged, a much safer way of letting off steam here than on the road! There are no rules, no restrictions, as every driver tries to disable the others, without coming to grief himself. And the winner? The one that got away! SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV pan old cars crashing into each other. CU same (3 shots). CU slip pan to sports car No 4 up hill climb. GV spectators. CU pan sports car No 5 up hill climb. GV car No 43 on hill climb route. CU pan car No 83 crashes into bank. CU spectators. GV car No 83 up bank. GV slip pan to cars crashing into each other. CU same. GV pan same. GV pan cars after Demolition Derby.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Vehicles; Motor racing

Locations

Melbourne; Australia; Adelaide

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

88125

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

116

Story extras:

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