Abidjan Car Rally

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2381
Date Released
19 Jan 1975
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Abidjan Car Rally
  2. 2Speed Show ‘75
  3. 3Banger Racing

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 3
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Abidjan Car Rally Colour. DESCRIPTION: It’s victory for ‘Flying Finn’ - Timo Makinen and co-driver, Henry Liddon in the tough and dusty Ivory Coast Rally. SHOTLIST: FV car drives up starting ramp, car 44. FV car 44 moving off ramp to start (Pescarolo). FV car 28 womens team. CU names on car door ‘Mariane Hoepfner & & Yveline Vanoni’. CU women in car. SV pan car 28 moving toward starting ramp. LV pan car 28 moving up ramp (natives in f/g). SV car 24 on ramp Timo Makinen & Henry Liddon. CU Timo in car. CU official starting car 24 pan to car. CU names on car door 4 ‘Kallstrom & Billstam’. CU official zoom out to car 4 driving off. SV pan natives watching. LV car 38 driving onto main road, low angle shot of road, car jumps over a jump toward camera. LV pan car 43 going over rough road. Low angle shot as car leaps over bump. SV pan car 28 going along rough road. LAS as car 3 leaps over hump. SV pan car 3 going along dusty track. LV car passing checkpoint. SV car on dusty road. BV car zooming past spectators on dusty road. LV car 4 driving on track then round a tree & back up track. SV native. SV pan car 5 coming along. LV car 19 zooming by. SV native holding baby. LV pan car 14 passing by. SV photographer. FV tracking shot car 24. SV pan Timo at wheel, waves to camera. FV car 24 driving up winners ramp. SV natives watching. SV Timo getting out of car, takes bottle of champagne. SV natives ducking as Timo sprays them with champagne. SV Timo. GV Timo and car and natives and ramp. SV Timo & Liddon & officials drinking. SV Timo & Liddon & officials drinking. End of African Car Rally Section.
Keywords
Sport; Motor racing; Ceremonies
Card file number
75/14
Credits:
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Length of story (in feet)
266
Story extras:
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