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Title: MG CAR CLUB FILMS FEATURING CLYDE CRUISE WITH L.C.C. ; GYMKHANA AT PEEBLES ; NORTHERN RALLY AND WHITBY

Reference number: 6266

Date: 1957

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.39 mins

Description: A selection of films recording events in the MG Car Club calendar of 1957. Featured here is a Clyde cruise on the 'Maid of Argyll', a gymkhana at Peebles, brief footage of the Northern Rally and a family outing to Whitby.

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: [Shotlisted from Betacam SP 600, manual control track]

(0.00) MG Car Club 1957 May CLYDE CRUISE WITH L.C.C. gvs boarding the 'Maid of Argyll' and departing Glasgow; quiz sheets are handed out on board (1.00) past the shipyards, tug in the foreground sailing alongside; lovely shot looking past at the shipyards - passengers on deck, streamers and balloons are let go, accordions and pianist entertain, an elderly man dances - more gvs sailing 'Doon the Watter' (1.56) MG Car Club May GYMKHANA AT PEEBLES brief shot view of Peebles; exts Peebles Hydro Hotel and gvs grounds where there is a car rally underway, games are played, races etc using cars sack races (3.07) MG Car Club Northern Rally October 1957 shot of Marjorie Mickel walking out of car on track signpost reads 'Beckhole, Goathland' - exts Metropole Hotel, Whitby, people gather to smoke and chat on steps - shot from car driving down hill; Robin Hood's Bay and again views from car as it takes on narrow streets 'unsuitable for motor vehicles' - gvs people on beach, bay, cobbled streets leading down to same - looking at a roadside stall selling sea urchins and sponges - view driving up hill again in moving car (4.39)