All Colour Reel: Offshore Powerboat Race

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2361

Date Released

2 Sep 1974

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1All Colour Reel: Offshore Powerboat Race

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Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Section Title

All Colour Reel

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Offshore Powerboat Race Colour. DESCRIPTION: The 1974 Embassy/Daily Express International Offshore Powerboat Race from Cowes to Torquay and back. The winner was Carlo Bonomi in ‘Dry Martini’ at a world record speed of 66.9 miles an hour. Second and third for Great Britain were ‘Wiggins Teape’ and ‘I Like It’. Actually second across the finishing line was ‘Miss Embassy’ but it’s futuristic turbine engines make it a ghost entry. SHOTLIST: GV powerboats at dock being prepared. SV men sitting in powerboat. SV men preparing boats, men checking engine. LV men preparing boats. SV boat 313 ‘ABO’ of GV driver Bobby Buchanan-Michaelson. LV men preparing boat 400 ‘Miss Embassy’. SV men on boat talking (scrutinisers). SV men on board 035 ‘AEG Telefunken’ GB. SV deck of Telefunken in view. SV man checking his 4 Mercury engines ‘Telefunken’. LV boat being scruitinised. SCV scrutiniser pan to entry list. LV zoom in boat 069’ I Like It’, driven by Charles Gill and Mike Bellamy GB moving out to start. LV 313 ‘ABO’ moving out to start zoom out LV 02 ‘Anything Goes Thuz Blitz’ GB moving out to start. LV ‘Dry Martini’ 9 Italy moving out. LV 035 ‘AEG Telefunken’ GB moving out. SV people on shore watching. LV cannon smoke pan round to boats starting (start as soon as scene begins) aerial shot boats on course at start. LV pan 185 ‘GEE’ of GB passing boats and other entrants. Aerial shot boats on course to Southsea. LV 9 ‘Dry Martini’ followed closely by 717 ‘Uno-Embassy’. SV pan 717 GB. SV pan (Italy). SV pan 96 ‘ERAF’ Italy. Aerial shot boats on course. LV pan 31 ‘ABO’. BV drivers of 313 Bobby Buchanan-Michaelson and Tony Mayes. CU driver. SLV pan 313 ‘ABO’ slowing down. LV ditto 96 passes it. SV pan 96. Aerial view 313 dead still in water. LV pan No 9. LV 717 with Southsea in b/g. SV ditto on way back to Cowes. CU man looking through glasses. LV pan 717 speeding through Cowes out to sea past small craft. LV pan 96 ditto. SV small plane following above. SV pan No 9 speeding through Cowes. SV pan 400 GB ditto. SV pan 403 ‘Telstar’ GB ditto. SV pan 185 and 069 ditto. GV The Needles. Aerial shot No 035 and No 187 racing en route to Torbay. SV pan 035. TV ditto. SV pan 109 ‘Miss Sweden’ en route. GV Torbay. LV pan 9 turning at Torbay past small craft. LV pan 96 ditto. LV 400, 069 ditto. LV pan 185 racing back to Cowes. TV ditto, aerial shot 43 ‘Tiger Tiger’ ditto. SV aerial shot zoom in 403 racing back. SV pan No 3 ‘Wiggins Teape’. Top shot No 400. LV pan No 9 in lead. CU people at Cowes. LV pan No 9 racing into Cowes as winner past small craft. SV man with glasses. SV No 9 coming in. SV ditto to winner’s berth. SV pan 400 2nd over the line. GV Canberra liner. SV pan 3 3rd over line. SV No 3 a near stand still. SV pan 069 coming in. SV crowd. TV No 9 tying up. SV people on quayside pan down to No 9. CU small craft in harbour. CU small child asleep in mother’s arms. SV winners and officials on board No 9. SV winners with Carlo Bonomi holding magnum of champagne, he drinks.

Keywords

Sport; Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Speed records; Water sports

Locations

Torquay; Cowes

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

74/142

Credits:

Commentator

Leonard Martin

Length of story (in feet)

590

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