News in Brief: Turbine Car

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1413
Date Released
2 Jul 1956
Date submitted
26 Jun 1956
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Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 9
Section Title
News in Brief
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Turbine Car. DESCRIPTION: The Shooting Star with its plastic body on advanced aero dynamic design, is France’s first turbine car. Making its public debut on the Montlhery track near Paris, it went round at over a hundred and twenty. SHOTLIST: Various shots of car going around track. SCU car. Steering wheel. The name of the car is Shooting Star. Plastic body. The car can do 120 mph.
Keywords
Vehicles
Locations
France; Paris; Montlhery
Footage sources
France
Card file number
67421
Credits:
Commentator
David Lewis Jacobs
Length of story (in feet)
38
Story extras:
Film clip

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'News in Brief: Turbine Car', British Movietone News Issue No. 1413, 2 Jul 1956. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/21026 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)