Saloons with the Lid Off

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1847

Date Released

26 Oct 1964

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Tokyo - Medals Galore
2. 2Saloons with the Lid Off
3. 3Soccer - England Draw with Belgium

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Saloon With the Lid Off. DESCRIPTION: Fifty seven entered in Australia’s leading event for production cars, The Armstrong Five Hundred. The race covered a hundred and thirty laps - over seven hours hard going. Bob Jane won the event, which was his fourth successive victory. SHOTLIST: Start of race. Cars on bend. Cars flashing past camera. Cars on straight. Car passing camera. Vauxhall past camera. Hillman Imp - Mini - followed by Volkswagen. Imp - Cortina’s - Studebaker. Cortina coming to finish. Winning driver drinking champagne.

Keywords

Sport; Vehicles; Motor racing

Locations

Australia

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

88944

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

122

Story extras:

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