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Title: ANDERSON CARS: ANDERSON SPECIAL ON THE ROAD

Reference number: 7341

Date: 1953*/1955*/1956*/1961*/1963*/1965*/1966*/1967*/

Director: [attributed to James Anderson]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.14 mins

Description: Amateur compilation of film mostly relating to the Anderson special sports car, showing James Anderson working on "the Bug". Includes shots from moving car around Newton Mearns and assembly line where it was made. There are some close ups of magazine articles written about the car.

Shotlist: [no title] gvs Anderson Special sports car driving on country road (0.20) stills of the same car (0.34) [BWCOL] still inside engineering works (0.48) [stills] photographer setting up in order to take photograph of machinery (0.54) ints industry exhibition hall, Olympia, London (1.09) exts Vertimax Ltd. (1.14) ints car assembly line (1.39) exts, finished car being towed out by 'Andersons of Newton Mearns' truck (2.03) c/u "Sports Car" magazine from March 1963 with article on The Anderson Special by Phillip H. Smith (2.19) c/u page from 'Motor Sport Magazine' with article on same by G.D. McBanks and James Anderson (2.25) exts Crow Hamilton building (2.35) ints and exts new works for Crow Hamilton under construction. Ints shop floor (3.21) 1963. Back again to Number Two known as 'The Bug' (3.26) c/u Motor World Magazine from May 3rd 1963, article entitles 'James Anderson - Man of Many Parts' (3.34) car is brought out of garage covered in white sheet by three men (3.41) Anderson working on the engine, polishing, spray painting components etc (4.50) [stills] car sitting outside Crow Hamilton's new premises (4.56) tracking shot taken from moving car travelling along back roads around Newton Mearns (5.26) June 1968 James Anderson working on camera mount on car (6.07) gvs as Anderson drives car, moving shots taken from various angles. Travelling on Ayr Road into Newton Mearns and similiar (8.09) he gets out of car, now stopped at roadside (8.13) c/u book cover 'The Design and Tuning of Competition Engines' by Philip H. Smith, Rev. 4th edition (8.19) c/u various pages from same book concerned with the Anderson engine (8.43) c/u leaflet 'Churchill Vertimax production lathes'; 'Hydraulics models 2 and 3'; 'Churchill Vertimax Ltd., Shibdon Road, Blaydon on Tyne, England' (9.12) The End (9.14)