SPRING RALLY TESTS AT INCHYRA; TEST TEAZERS AT LEITH FORT; SPEED EVENT PRACTICE AT STOBS; CHRISTMAS PRIZE GIVING & DANCE
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Title: SPRING RALLY TESTS AT INCHYRA; TEST TEAZERS AT LEITH FORT; SPEED EVENT PRACTICE AT STOBS; CHRISTMAS PRIZE GIVING & DANCE
Reference number: 6267
Date: 1958
Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bwcol
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 8.46 mins
Description:
A selection of films recording events in the MG Car Club calendar, 1958. Featured here are Spring Rally tests at Inchyra, tests at Leith Fort, speed practice at Stobs as well as fun and games at the annual Christmas dinner dance.
See P/CN179. Film makers diary records detailed information such as location and date - this record features DWM ref MG.
See also HOMEBUILDERS: Mactaggart and Mickel and the Scottish housebuilding industry ed. Miles Glendinning and Diane Watters, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1999.
Shotlist: [col] MG Car Club 16 March 1958 SPRING RALLY TESTS AT INCHYRA gvs same, in grounds of huge house / castle [film is very fast] (0.53) 12 April TEST TEAZERS AT LEITH FORT more tests, reversing etc (2.54) 8 June SPEED EVENT PRACTICE AT STOBS gvs cars at speed event (6.40) gvs people enjoying picnic on the grass (6.46) MG CAR CLUB Dec. 1958 PRIZE GIVING & DANCE [b&w] [Notes say 'Jim Clark Dance?'] prizes are awarded, speeches are made, Douglas (or David?) Mickel is awarded a 'Token of Appreciation' (7.59) games weaving in and out of wine bottles with scooters (8.18) dancing, Christmas presents are given out, raffle is drawn (8.42) That's All (8.46)