Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 4319 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
TRIUMPH CHALLENGE | c.1954 | 1951-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 11 mins 37 secs Subject: COUNTRYSIDE / LANDSCAPES ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE TRANSPORT TRAVEL |
Summary Made by Edward Winpenny, this film documents a car driving challenge where the drivers of the Triumph cars have to drive to Snowden, Scafell and Ben Nevis in less than 20 hours. There is a lot of footage of the men at petrol stations and the moutnain scenery. |
Description
Made by Edward Winpenny, this film documents a car driving challenge where the drivers of the Triumph cars have to drive to Snowden, Scafell and Ben Nevis in less than 20 hours. There is a lot of footage of the men at petrol stations and the moutnain scenery.
The film opens with a shot of the front of a 1950s Triumph car; there is a sign attached to the grill at the front which reads `Triumph in the Peaks'. The camera moves to the right to reveal a second and third car beside the first...
Made by Edward Winpenny, this film documents a car driving challenge where the drivers of the Triumph cars have to drive to Snowden, Scafell and Ben Nevis in less than 20 hours. There is a lot of footage of the men at petrol stations and the moutnain scenery.
The film opens with a shot of the front of a 1950s Triumph car; there is a sign attached to the grill at the front which reads `Triumph in the Peaks'. The camera moves to the right to reveal a second and third car beside the first car; they both have the same sign on the grill. There are shots taken of the cars from different angles and in one of them, a man stands beside each car.
The cars go up a ramp onto a main street and drive in convoy into a petrol station
(Frame speed is quite slow for this scene)
The men stand around the cars smoking while a station attendant fills the tank. There is a shot taken from low down beside the car looking up at two men who walk alongside the car admiring it.
Back on the road and there are shots taken from the back seat of one of the cars looking out the rear window at one of the other cars; there is also a van and a lorry on the road beside them.
The cars travel along a main road, through a residential area and end up at another petrol station.
(This section has been sped up)
Several men have gathered beside the stationary cars and there is a shot of one man standing beside a petrol pump with the nozzle in his hand. He fills up one of the cars through the petrol cap at the rear of the car. There is a shot taken from a short distance down the road looking back at the cars as they drive out of the petrol station.
(This part has been sped up slightly)
The next scene is in some wide, open countryside and the cars have pulled up beside a lake; the men get out of the cars and one of them zips up his jacket.
A large, white house sits at the foot of some cliffs; another shot shows the cars parked across the road from the house. A man cycles down the road, waves at the men waiting beside their cars and pulls into the parking area.
The next scene is taken at dusk beside a main road; the shot is taken from low down on the side of the road looking up at the passing cars. The cars pass very close to the camera so the next few shots are taken from further away from the side of the road.
The cars make their way up the steep roads to the peaks and the shots are taken from the point of view of the driver in the car. The car drives along the winding roads and the landscape is visible; electricity poles line the road.
The next shot is taken during the day at another petrol pump; the men stand around re-fuelling their cars and once they have finished, they drive off at speed. Following this are shots of the men leaning against the bonnet of one of the cars and looking at a map. Suddenly, one man looks directly at the camera followed in turn by the other three men.
The four men get back into the three cars and drive off; there is more footage taken from the point of view of the driver. This gives great views over the green mountains and the rivers that the cars drive past.
The drivers go through a town; they pass a chemist, a bakery and then pass a sign for `Callander' in Scotland. They drive along forest roads, beside lakes, getting stuck behind other cars and large lorries. There is a long sequence of the car driving along the windy road, the shots being taken from point of view of the driver.
The men go across a lake on a small car ferry; when it docks on the other side the deck swivels around so that the cars can just drive off. They are waved goodbye to by the ferry operators.
The next scene is in the peaks; there are shots of a river running through a forest and a large mountain in the background. Two young men in shorts and hiking boots walk past the men in the cars and start off up the mountains. The camera follows them a short way and then pans all the way up the mountain to reveal the cloud covered peaks.
The men have parked their cars beside a river and are looking at a train crossing a huge bridge over the river. One of the men offers the other men a cigarette and then there are s few more shots of the river, another train crossing the bridge and a ferry in the water.
The camera zooms in onto the sign on one of the cars; it now reads `Snowden, Scafell, Ben Nevis in 16 ? hours' (twenty hours has been crossed off). The film finishes the way it started with close shots of the sign on the grill of the car.
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