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Title: MOORFOOT RALLY; DecEMBER Dinner & Dance

Reference number: 6653

Date: 1958

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.14 mins

Description: Coverage of events in the MG Car Club calendar. Includes the Moorfoot Rally and fun and games at December's Dinner Dance where guests include John Thornley, Robert Kay and Joan Thornley.

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) [col] 27 October MOORFOOT RALLY The Start at Ingliston arrival at rally and gathering and registering wall has Ingliston Golf Club written on it; people depart onto road, start of rally (0.26) Tests en route cornering at speed, stopping suddenly, reversing quickly (1.21) The Bonus Hill cars take it in turn to drive up an extremely muddy and rough track - muddy conditions, tests for stopping and reversing are carried out (2.22) Dec. Dinner & Dance John Thornley speaks [b&w] gvs speech - Then Robert Kay same - Prizegiving by Joan Thornley same (3.28) The 'Ferry' Race! games - Piratical secretaries more games - Secretary's - Eye view! views as if on 'ferry' - The End (4.14)