Le Mans 24 Hours

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2298

Date Released

18 Jun 1973

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Le Mans 24 Hours. DESCRIPTION: The 1973 Le Mans 24 Hour race won by Henri Pescarolo in a Matra Simca. SHOTLIST: GV mass of cars round bend pan and zoom out round bend with cars to BV. SV cars round. SV car No 11 in pits, drivers change over. LV car No 11 in pits. SV No 11 in pits boot is put down. SCU No 11 drives out of pits. LV No 11 Matra Simca, driver Henri Pescarolo, co-driver Gerard Larrousse driving out of pits, pan with it. SV mass of cars round bend with headlights on in the night. LV pan with cars down straight with headlights on. SV car round bend in early morning. SV ditto with lights on. SV No 15 (Jacky Ickx & Brian Redman) being pushed along pits. SV No 11 round bend. SV through chicane pan with car to BV. SV No 12 (Jaussad-Jabouille) through ditto. SV No 6 round bend pan with car to BV. SV No 11 round bend through chicane. LV mass of cars down straight past pits. SV crowd round car No 39. LV zoom into barrier of gendarmes holding back crowd. Crowd break through zoom out LS. SV winning team No 11 Pescarolo & Larousse in a Matra Simca spraying crowd with champagne, zoom out LV.

Keywords

Sport; Motor racing

Locations

France; Le Mans

Footage sources

France

Card file number

99168

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

101

Story extras:

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