• Short Summary

    Women, as well as men, compete in highly dangerous stock car racing in New South Wales.

  • Description

    Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.

    Two women wearing skid lids. One standing with her body half out of the roof of a stock car, shakes hands with the other who then walks over and gets into her stock car. CU. Woman in her car. SCU. Man wearing skid lid getting into his stock car. SV. Pan with stock cars as they roar round track. CU. Towards cars as they roar along. (Australian voice starts and continues right up to the end of story). A sequence of cars racing: driving in circles, minor crashes, dust, skidding etc., until a big crash which can hardly be seen thanks to a huge cloud of dust.

    (F.G.) (Orig.E.)

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    535.07
    Media URN:
    30928
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    18/07/1955
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:53:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:11:34:00 / 01:13:27:00
    Canister:
    55/57

Comments (1)

  1. Unknown user says

    BOMB...meaning a 'beat-up' auto....

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