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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

5706

Title

[THE SCOTTISH RALLY 1951 AND OTHER TIME TRIALS]

Producer

Jack Twyford

Date

1945-55

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w & colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

27 mins 29 secs

Description

Black and white footage of time trials on hillsides and moorland. Colour footage of off-road racing in the countryside. Close up shots of spectators, adjudicators filling out paperwork and showing timing equipment. Successful teams celebrating, posing for the camera with their vehicles. Brief shots from The Scottish Rally, 1951. Scenes of a woman feeding a horse and of a spectator covered in mud splatters from the race. Brief family shots in a local village. Scenes of snowy mountaintops, vehicles moving through the ice on the dirt roads. Footage of a car driving through a stream. Close up shots of a broken-down car with a flat tyre and a man enjoying a bottle of beer.

 

 



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