World Speedway Championship
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World Speedway Championship. DESCRIPTION: In front of a packed crowd of 75,000 Ivan Mauger from New Zealand won the championships for the fourth time beating into second place the great Dane, Ole Olsen. SHOTLIST: Pan riders and mechanics preparing bikes. CU pan down British rider. SU two Russian riders. CU Russian riders hand on throttle. CU another rider putting on scarf. AS Ole Olsen of Denmark testing and revving bike. CU hand on throttle. CU Olsen looking down. CU wheel spinning. LV riders moving along track. CU rear wheel spins and starts away. LV pan riders racing round track in heat 4. LV Olsen slides off bike and remounts at 52’ to carry on. SV pan Ivan Mauger flashes past. CU pan as he flashes past again. SV pan 4 riders flash past with Barry Briggs No 5 in lead. SV pan cyclist flash past camera. SV ditto. SV Briggs wins heat. CU No 13 Bernt Persson of Sweden at starting line for heat 5, in which Briggs crashes. CU wheel at starting tapes. Tapes up and bike away. SV pan as bikes race round track. CU pan a Russian flashes past. SV Russian Gregori Chlinovskij crashes over Briggs. SV rescuers helping Briggs. SV pan Briggs carried away on stretcher. SCV Olsen coming up to starting line. CU wheel at starting gate. SV start and pan another heat. SV pan as Russian rider on inside overtakes. CU pan rider at speed. CU pan Ivan Mauger flashes past. LV towards into. CU as Mauger in lead. CU pan Persson flashes past. CU pan Mauger after winning heat.
- Keywords
- Sport; Motorcycling
- Locations
- London; England; Wembley
- Card file number
- 98459
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Cedric Baynes
- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Camera
- Ronald E. Collins
- Length of story (in feet)
- 210
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