Colour: Historic Car Race

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2208A

Date Released

30 Sep 1971

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 7

Section Title

Colour

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Historic Car Race - Colour. DESCRIPTION: An impressive line-up of historic racing and sports cars at the Crystal Palace. SHOTLIST: GV old racing cars in paddock. SV Bugatti. CU name Bugatti on radiator. CU steering wheel and control panel. SV car No 76 Lagonda. 2 CUs name Lagonda on radiator & Bentley radiator. SV car 73 Aston Martin. CU AM on rad pan up to water temperature gauge. SV No 20 Delage. CU name Delage on radiator. SV pan car 68 Raleigh Special with driver on starting grid. CU pan car 72 Aston Martin to driver. GV towards and pan start of event No 1. SV pan car 68 drives past. SV pan cars past. CU pan car No 63, 5 SVs pan car 75 in lead, car 75 MGN crossing finishing line, pan car 75, crowd watching, winner from car 75 (McLannon) being presented with cup, driver drinks from it. CU Leo Villa drinking from tankard. SV pan car No 8 coming in after winning event 3. CU Villa. SV Villa putting laurel garland round Martin Morris’ neck. SV pan Martin Morris in car No 8.

Keywords

Vehicles; Motor racing; History and archaeology

Locations

Crystal Palace

Card file number

97505

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Reginald William Smith

Length of story (in feet)

119

Story extras:

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