• Short Summary

    3-year-old Daphne Gregory and the tiny car built for her by her father.

  • Description

    Titles read: "AFRICA'S YOUNGEST CAR OWNER!"

    South Africa.

    Various shots of three-year-old Daphne Gregory and the tiny car her father has built for her. Daphne rides along the garden path in it with her father, then an old man fills the petrol tank for her. Daphne rides the car about a field, and lets a boy get into the car beside her to have a go at driving. A group of children follow them around. When the car seems to break down, the little boy gets out and adjusts something in the engine with a spanner.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1202.18
    Media URN:
    15566
    Group:
    Pathetones
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    27/05/1940
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:56:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:31:48:00 / 01:32:44:00
    Canister:
    PT 530

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