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Title: MG CaR CLUB COMPILATION INCLUDING SSCC Team Tests, CLUB CHRISTMAS DANCE, STUDENT PARADE ON PRINCES STREET, new mg handover, cripple rally, st. andrews rally, concours d'elegance at bathgate

Reference number: 6272

Date: 1963c - 1966

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.25 mins

Description: Assorted footage from the Mickel Collection. Featuring footage of the MG Car Club SSSC Team Tests, the Club Christmas Dance, Rallies at St. Andrews and in aid of charity, a Concours d'Elegance at Bathgate. There is also footage of a student parade on Princes Street.

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) Moorfoot? rally tests & manoeuvres - men chatting and conversing - possibly officials - MG Midget performs manoeuvres, followed by various other cars, gvs same - cars depart (2.51) [b&w] dinner dance speeches and prizes , games, prizes include china plate (4.08) [col] c/u sign SSCC Team Tests braking etc turning includes a Hillman Imp (7.37) hillside, car racing / tests / hillclimbs well attended, crowds of onlookers (9.45) car park / open area tarmac where more tests undertaken (10.25) [b&w] car rally through field terrain (10.36) -blank- (10.46) [col] people relaxing and some cars driving up hills muddy conditions, people enjoy picnic (12.25) [b&w] dinner dance, speeches, prizegiving - dancing [speeded up] - games, races on kid on 'horse' (13.51) [col] rally tests manoeuvres and handling (14.57) -blank- (15.01) brief shot car driving along road towards camera (15.04) -blank- (15.10) [b&w] dance, speeches and prizes are handed out and the winners of a big cup stand and get photos - games, 'wheelbarrow' with a man blindfolded carrying women in barrow, bursting balloons along the way with pin (16.32) [col] tests, stopping suddenly, turning / reversing etc various cars through big puddle and up hill (17.32) gvs Princes Street, Edinburgh, marching band and floats, fancy dress, one float says 'A Pill in Time Saves 9 - Buy me and stop one - Be British, thwart increased productivity' 'War on Wilson' 'Save our Scotland' 'Pennies from Heaven but we're no angels so let's have 6d' - shots of students shaking collection cans, including Bruce Mickel, various onlookers including Angela Mickel (19.22) c/u sign 'To Stobs Station & Camp 1 mile' gvs tests and manoeuvres on tarmac, Bruce Mickel driving Morris Minor (20.51) [Notes from DM ref 244/5 Handover TD to Bruce 3/1/66] c/u sign 'MG Car Club 3rd January 1966' presenting keys outside garage draped with MG Car Club flags - red and cream MG TD Midget presented and driven off. Bruce and Angela Mickel and dog inside (21.37) [b&w] ints dance, prizegiving - men wearing waterproofs drink yard of ale competition, other games include bumpy cycling around 'slalom' of wine bottles (22.44) [notes from DM ref 246 "Cripple Rally" 3/66] c/u sign 'The Edinburgh Committee for the Co-ordination of Services for the Disabled MG Car Club Disabled Drivers Rally Sunday 6th March in conjunction with Disabled Week Doors Open 2pm' ints 'hangar' where they do tests for manoeuvrability (23.06) [Notes from DM ref 248 - 249 St Andrews MG 5/66] St Andrews, North Haugh - Gymkhana on dunes, hockey game, drive in circles etc, play musical cars sitting on flower pots (24.25) [Notes from DM ref 249/50 Concours @ Bathgate Jaguar Driver's Club MG2214] c/u sign 'Bathgate, Blackburn RAC Concours d'Elegance' polishing up MG Bruce and Angela - small child driving toy car along - all sorts of cars lined up, being admired by onlookers, opened up to see polished engines etc a judge inspects various cars in great detail and awards marks on sheet - marks are awarded for cars that drive by, women walk around, they are all dressed to the nines! Bruce stalls his car - The End (26.25)