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Title: JOYS OF THE OPEN ROAD

Reference number: 1250

Date: 1961

Director: filmed by Frank M. Marshall

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 2.48 mins

Description: A humorous satire on the joys of motoring, the film was entered at the 1961 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.

[Please note the title could be misleading as there is no actual footage of cars driving in this film, only tracking shots as seen from a moving vehicle]

Note this is original silent version. There is a print with music added on a sound stripe also held by the Archive.

Shotlist: Credits. A verse of Robert Louis Stevenson's poetry (0.14); Shots of "For Sale" notice on car windscreen. Notice is lifted off and car pulls away onto road (0.20); Montage of several road and traffic signs, eg "No Entry", "No Left Turn", etc [occasional brief shots of Glasgow buildings and streets in the background and of surrounding countryside] (2.40); "For Sale" notice is replaced on car windscreen (2.45); ecs (2.48)