Learning on ScreenConsul Race and Race of Champions
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- British Movietone News
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- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Consul Race and Race of Champions. DESCRIPTION: Top sporting personalities compete in a race, driving identical Consuls, held at Brands Hatch - the winner Chay Blyth. Racing drivers compete in the Formula One Race of Champions won by outsider Peter Gethin in a Chevron-Chevrolet. SHOTLIST: CONSUL RACE - LS massed parked cars and spectators with large sign about cars Daily Mail Leads zoom into race track. SV Reg Harris (cycling) signs autographs, looks up and smiles into camera & walks away, Henry Cooper in back ground. SV Cooper and David Hemery standing by cars. SV Colin Cowdrey and Jimmy Greaves standing by cars talking. SV Hemery signing autograph. CU name on overalls Richard Meade zoom out to him talking. SV Harris sitting in car ready to start. SV No 15 Geoff Lewis on car door pan up zoom out to Lewis sitting in car ready to start. SV Clement Freud sitting in car pan down and out to car doors No 8 Freud. SV No 2 Chay Blyth car door pan up and zoom out Blyth putting crash helmet on. LS start of Evening News Consul Race pan with cars from grid to first bend. LS consuls coming round bottom bend. SV ditto out of bottom bend. SV ditto out of bottom end, pan with cars along bottom straight. SV crowds watching. LV 4 Consuls racing over grid pan with No 21 last car down front straight. SV No 2 Blyth coming out of bend after bottom straight. SV ditto No 4 Henry Cooper. SV man and woman spectators both wearing fur coats. LS Consuls crossing line and being flagged in, winners 1st No 2 Blyth (sailing), 2nd Tom Percival (Power Boating), 3rd Richard Meade (Equestrian), No 4 Ivan Mauger (Speedway). SV winner Blyth getting out of car being given handshake by Graham Hill. [95 Seconds]. RACE OF CHAMPIONS - SV Formula 1 cars zoom out to front of No 66 Brabham driver Graham Hill. SV Hill putting fireproof scarf on. SV Emerson Fittipaldi talking. SV cars in pits, mechanic tightening wheel nuts up in fore ground. CU Hill sitting in his Shadow Ford DNI. SV start of Race of Champions pan with cars as they up front straight. LS No 6 Hill’s car in ditch alongside front straight Hill being helped out by two officials. LS car coming out of bottom. SV fire attendants and officials watching. SV piece of track with sign opposite Daily Mail whilst cars go by. SV pan car No 65 Ronnie Peterson coming out of bottom bend and down straight. SV 2 female timekeepers. CU pan 2 cars No 60 leading followed by No 65 coming out of bottom bend and down bottom straight. SV spectators watching. SV John Player Special No 65 in lead coming round bottom straight. LV 2 cars coming round bend and along bottom straight. LV 2 cars coming round Paddock Hill bend and up Pilgrims Rise. LS 2 cars racing round Paddock Hill bend and up Pilgrims Rise and under Dunlop Bridge. SV winner being flagged in pan with winning car down front straight. SV 2nd car being flagged in, 2rd, 4th, 5th zoom out to 6th coming over line. LV placing board giving 1st No 32 Peter Gethin driving Chevron Chevrolet B24, 2nd No 57 Denny Hulme driving Yadeley McLaren Ford M23, 3rd No 56 James Hunt driving Surtees Ford T58B. 4th No 67. SV Gethin waving arm and receiving cup. [77 Seconds].
- Keywords
- Sport; Motor racing
- Locations
- Brands Hatch
- Card file number
- 98952
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Paul Kavanagh
- Camera
- Reginald William Smith
- Length of story (in feet)
- 258
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