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Title: TURNHOUSE TESTS; MG CAR CLUB DANCE; INGLISTON; STRANRAER - LARNE IRISH RALLY; PEEBLES RALLY

Reference number: 6269

Date: 1968 - 1969

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 12.41 mins

Description: Various events in the MG Car Club Calendar, as filmed by amateur enthusiast, David Mickel. Featuring tests at Turnhouse, fun and games at the annual Christmas Dance, a car rally at Ingliston, Stranraer - Larne Irish Rally starting at Peebles Hydro and footage from the Haddington Festival.

See P/CN179. Film makers diary records detailed information such as location and date - this record features DWM ref 547 - 568.

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 original 16mm]

[Turnhouse tests July 68]? gvs tests, car overturns (0.49) [1967*] [notes mention 1969 Dance 10 Jan] speeches at Christmas Dance, dinner is served, prizegiving, including one for Bruce Mickel (2.32) dancing (2.42) racing games (3.15) more dancing, the raffle is drawn, brief shot prizes (4.25) ceilidh dancing (4.34) Ingliston, 13th April shot of an autogyro driving past (4.49) gvs car racing track. Lola T142 racing car with 'Willie Forbes, West End Garage, Aberdeen' written on it, gvs people admiring cars (6.08) [very speeded up film] car's eye view to Forth Road Bridge, to Strathspey Hotel [Aviemore] (6.48) [speeded up] to Coylumbridge, car park (7.37) exts Peebles Hydro Hotel; cars ready to particpate in Stranraer - Larne Irish Rally the cars gather at Peebles Hydro (9.32) sign 'Haddington Festival 1 -7 June' approach to and driving through centre of Haddington (9.54) crowd lines streets there, cars perform stunts, there are hay bales (11.09) racing cars, scooter type things more cars doing more weaving etc sports car (12.28) sunset (12.39) The End (12.41)