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Title: SAND RACING AND HILL CLIMB

Reference number: 1435

Date: 1949

Director: [filmed by Bob Riddell-Black, Templar Films]

Production company: Templar Films

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.29 mins

Description: Footage of sand racing, and coverage of the first post-war car hill climb race held at Rest and Be Thankful organised by the Royal Scottish Automobile Club, St Andrews.

Uncut rushes - never edited or released in finished form. Sand racing sequence shot during event run by Midlothian Sporting Car Club. Hill climb event organised by Royal Scottish Automobile Club - first of their post-war sporting events.

Credits: [shot by Bob Riddell-Black, Templar Films]
[Competitors in the event possibly seen in the film:
Raymond Mays in ERA, Sidney Allard and A K Stevenson, the organiser for the RSAC.]

Shotlist: No credits. [Midlothian Sporting Car Club event] Gv's St Andrews in background as racing cars assemble on track marked out along the beach. General views of the start and of the race in progress. The winner passes the chequered flag (.28); Dog in car (.35); Winner drives past holding the trophy (.43); General views of press and spectators, interspersed with shots of the racing. Close-ups of several cars and drivers (2.03); Exterior of the Royal and Ancient Golf Clubhouse, pan across to beach and racing track (2.29); Shots of spectators, close-ups of cars, and machanics and drivers making last minute adjustments to their cars (3.10); - Blank - (3.12); Presentation of winner's trophy by Richard Attenborough (3.34); Shots of the final stages of hill climb en route up the Rest-and-be-Thankful as the competitors drive up in their racing cars. General views of crowds as cars complete the course (4.39); Close-up of several cars. Shots of the finishing lines (4.49); Shots of presentation of trophies. General views of the cars and close-ups as they round the final bend (6.29)

[Competitors in the event possibly seen in the film:
Raymond Mays in ERA, Sidney Allard and A K Stevenson, the organiser for the RSAC.]