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  • Short Summary

    A story showing motorcycles and their riders being put through their paces in the Scottish countryside.

  • Description

    Scotland.

    Intertitle: "SCOTT MOTOR CYCLE TRIALS. A super-test for both man and machine".

    M/S of a man on a motorcycle riding through a stream running over a very muddy, rocky track. L/S of a motorcyclist riding up a rocky slope. M/S of a motorcyclist falling off his bike as he rides through a stream, a row of people watch from a hillside in the background. The unfortunate cyclist pushes his bike up the hill, he ignites the engine, waves and rides away. M/S of a motorcyclist riding through a shallow river, in the distance is a remote house on a hill side.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    212.50
    Media URN:
    21575
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    13/09/1920
    Sound:
    Silent
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:04:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:55:23:00 / 01:56:27:00
    Canister:
    G 702

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  1. Unknown user says

    One of the tags says "Scotland" but the Scott Trial is named after Scott Motorcycle Company which organised it near the factory in Yorkshire.

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