Unissued / unused material - date and location may be unclear / unknown.
Chaumont, France
CU Roadside sign: Stop Controlle, pan to traffic on snow-covered town road on the Monte Carlo rally route. MS Rally Car No 307 with two women drivers pulls in at their checkpoint, co-driver shows...
Unissued / unused material - date and location may be unclear / unknown.
Chaumont, France
CU Roadside sign: Stop Controlle, pan to traffic on snow-covered town road on the Monte Carlo rally route. MS Rally Car No 307 with two women drivers pulls in at their checkpoint, co-driver shows their papers and driver fills up with petrol and checks oil. CU A smartly dressed young woman making notes in her notepad. LS and CU Children gathered on an island in the road watch a rally car pass. CU Road sign: "Chaumont". GV Chaumont. (2 shots).
CU Paperwork. MS Rally drivers signing the rally papers at a checkpoint opposite the the garage Gaston Boni, possibly at Chaumont. Various shots, rally drivers filling up with petrol whilst others have their papers checked in with rally officials who have set up a table by the side of the road. MS and CU A gendarme on the radio by his car. Gendarmes waving a lorry through. Various shots, rally car No. 299 filling up with petrol and driving off.
Cataloguer's Note: This item and the others covering the 1960 Monte Carlo rally focus on particular drivers and cars but there is no information on file to say who they are. However, it does build to give a feeling of what it was like to take part in the adventure.
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