Rac Trophy

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2117A

Date Released

1 Jan 1970

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1News Scene: The Second French Nuclear Submarine - Terrible - is Launched at Cherbourg Not Long before the Five Gunboats Mysteriously Left This Same Port
2. 2Infofair
3. 3Rac Trophy
4. 4Winter Story

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: RAC Diamond Trophy. DESCRIPTION: The Royal Automobile Club’s Diamond Jubilee Trophy - leading award for achievements in transport - is presented to the designers and builders of the Crawler Transporter, used for moving America’s giant Saturn Rockets to the launch pads. SHOTLIST: MCU zoom out trophy. MS zoom in portrait of Saturn rocket on Transporter, model on transporter. CU zoom in ditto. MCU zoom out poster giving details on the award. MCU Lord Louis Mountbatten. MS Mountbatten presents awards to Donald Buchanan, one of the designers of the transporter and to one of his colleagues. CU Sir Vivian Fuchs 1958 award winner. Christopher Cockerell 1962 award winner. MC Mr Buchanan pan down to trophy. MS Mountbatten looks at model transporter with Mr Buchanan and colleagues.

Keywords

Royalty; Organisations; Vehicles; Science and technology; Space; Inventions and discoveries

Locations

United Kingdom

Card file number

95491

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Reginald William Smith

Length of story (in feet)

128

Story extras:

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