Round Britain Rally

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2059A
Date Released
21 Nov 1968
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Competing in Paris
  2. 2Under Water Visitors
  3. 3Round Britain Rally
  4. 4Melbourne Cup - in Colour

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Round Britain Rally. DESCRIPTION: Two and a half thousand miles round Britain in one of Europe’s toughest motoring tests. Five days of gruelling punishment for man and machine, with over four hundred miles of unmade roads - the special sections which sort out the men from the boys, the Supermen from the Men!. That’s the RAC Rally - the most spectacular motoring event in the National Calendar. SHOTLIST: LS Porsche. MCU ditto. MS Ford Escort. TS Mini. MCU Richard Marsh, Transport Minister. MS Marsh flags off Brooks and Gittins’ Cortina. 2 shots Rauno Aaltonen and Henry Lidden start. CU Paddy Hopkirk. CU clock. MS pan Vic Elford, David Stone in Porsche away. MCU car sticker. MS pan Simo Lampinen in Saab away. MS Pat Moss-Carlesson’s Lancia No 23 away. MS CU pan with Cortina as it pulls away. MS competitor through wooded section. MS pan Mini through wood. 7 shots cars past. LAS man in tree. MS Escort No 30 Tony Chappell crashed into tree. MCU soldier with walkie-talkie. MS pan Cortina No 45 past. MS pan Cortina No 46 past. MS pan Cortina No 51 past. MS pan Mini No 42 going slowly. MS pan Mini No 57 at speed. MS pan Escort of Allen Allard and Tom Fish somersaults into tree. MS stewards around wrecked car. 2 shots cars past. MS crashed cars. 2 shots Allen Allard & Tom Fish. 4 shots cars past. MS pan Mini No 95 through and round bend.
Keywords
Sport; Politics and government; Communications; Accidents and disasters; Military
Locations
United Kingdom; North Wales; London Heathrow Airport; Hawley Common; Minley
Card file number
94141
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Maurice Ford
Camera
Roy Page
Length of story (in feet)
263
Story extras:
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