Instant Parking

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2094

Date Released

21 Jul 1969

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Firepower
2. 2Davis Cup Demonstrators
3. 3Tops Down Under
4. 4Instant Parking
5. 5Target Moon

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Instant Parking. DESCRIPTION: First tangible result of a major Motor Company’s Scholarship Scheme is a City car that turns on a six-pence, designed by a Scottish post-graduate engineer. SHOTLIST: Inventor - Dawson Sellar - demonstrates his strange but very manoeuvrable car. From moving camera car as inventor drives behind. Inventor demonstrates parking with ease as wheels of car manoeuvre. Strange car driven out of parking space. Pan conventional car drives past with inventor following while conventional car is reversing. Inventor steals parking space.

Keywords

Students; Education and training; Vehicles; Inventions and discoveries

Locations

United Kingdom

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

94963

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

86

Story extras:

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