Gets You There, Gets You Fit

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1954

Date Released

14 Nov 1966

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Gets You There, Gets You Fit. DESCRIPTION: After a fall in popularity, the bicycle is returning to favour. Its attractions of economy and exercise, plus its advantages in traffic-filled cities, makes this year’s Cycle and Motor Cycle Show well worth a visit. Exhibits underline the new shape of cycling which has escaped the Cloth Cap image and offers instead Trendy Transport that’s Top Gear for sixty seven. SHOTLIST: GV pan streets of London. Sign Car Park. GV of the car park. CU sign Car Park Full. MS car parked at parking meter. CU parking meter. MS traffic wardens. MS pan man driving small motor cycle pulls into the kerb and dismounts. MCU man folds up the motor cycle. MS picks it up and walks away. CU sign outside the Motor Cycle Show. GV pan interior of show two girls ride past on Moulton cycles. MS pan cycles on show at the show. CU pan cycle wheels. MS man pumping up cycle tyres. MCU ditto. Pan up model girl sitting on cycle. CU pan Moulton cycle. MCU ditto. Pan from Moulton cycle sign to man inspecting bike. MS model girl puts folded up Moulton cycle in boot of a car. MS young boy sitting on cycle. CU boy moving gear lever. MS tandem cycle on wall. CU pan ditto. MS two girls with Vespa Scooter. MS girl opens case to reveal Lambretta moped. CU man removes engine cover of Lambretta. MS pan BSA motor cycle at show. CU ditto. CU BSA engine. MCU model girl sitting on BSA. GV the fastest motor cycle in the world the Triumph Gyronant. GV pan man walks away from Gyronant.

Keywords

Transport; Cycling

Locations

London; England

Footage sources

Library

Card file number

91771

Credits:

Camera: Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Camera: John Mould
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

254

Story extras:

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