British Racing Cars
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: The motor racing season is just starting in Britain; so Diana MacLean decided to find out more about this sport which will be hitting the headlines for the next few months. She visited a factory which makes more mator racing equipment than any other in the world and then to school - to a motor racing drivers’ school to learn how to drive a modern British racing car.
- Researcher Comments
- Features the Jim Russell School at Snetterton in Norfolk. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 542A’ contains substantial footage from this film
- Keywords
- Education and training; Motor racing
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/958
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Presenter
- Diana MacLean
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Lilliana Velasco
- Cutter
- Mike Willcox
- Director
- Nick Hague
- Producer
- Patrick Brawn
- Camera
- Platypus Films
- Support services
- Zakiya Powell
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
- Series held
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How to cite this record
'British Racing Cars', This Week In Britain Issue No. 958, 1977. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/329199 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)