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Title: Annual Christmas dance; Oban, RSAC Rally May; Moorfoot ? Rally; MG Car Club 1962 Dance; International Scottish Rally 11 - 15 June 1962

Reference number: 6654

Date: 1962

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.10 mins

Description: Assorted highlights of the MG Car Club calendar 1961 - 1962. Featuring the annual Christmas Dance, the Royal Scottish Automobile Club Rally at Oban, the Moorfoot Rally (?), and the International Scottish Rally in June 1962.

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) [b&w] driving along road as seen from moving car, briefly. Gvs hill climb (and trying to drive at all (!) on rough terrain, very muddy) (1.08) driving along again, car's eye view (1.30) [1961?] Annual Christmas dance, prizes are awarded - party games weaving in and out of wine bottles on scooters - prizes are awarded one of which is a boxed set of china teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl (2.47) [col] cars race on beach, games are played involving cars, balloons, musical chairs etc (4.18) Oban, the RSAC Rally (May) and gvs front where cars and people assemble and set off (5.20) car's eye view as it sets off arriving at the Deanston House Hotel, where tests and manoeuvres are carried out in grounds (6.37) airport (not East Fortune) runway where cars manoeuvre (7.17) [b&w] cars trying to get up very muddy hill (7.47) car's eye view driving through unidentified town, and rural area and more gvs rally in muddy condition (Moorfoot hills?) splashing through puddles etc; car is actually pushed at one point! (8.46) MG Car Club 1962 Dance prizegiving, games (10.15) [col] exts Deanston House Hotel, tests etc in grounds (11.22) c/u programme 'International Scottish Rally 11 - 15 June 1962' gvs same, cars driving through hills, by lochside, at junction for Dunoon / Cairndow The End (13.10)