The Faithful Carrier (National Benzole)(1962)
The Faithful Carrier (National Benzole)(1962)
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- Release Date: 1st January 1962
- Asset ID: 802372
- Synopsis: Made for National Benzole company this is the history of the first commercial vehicle rally from London to Brighton, Starting at Clapham. All types of commercial vehicles, including Harrods van, fire engines and a van owned by Lord Montague. Film shows new vehicles and then cuts back to the same type of vehicle years before in b&w archive.
- Shotlist: Film shows new vehicles and then cuts back to the same type of vehicle years before in b&w archive; Colour-Old vehicles on show, people dressed in period costumes at rally- they travel through modern London streets; Archive - Horse drawn carriages, horse drawn bus. Liverpool. Tram POV passenger. Busy streets, lots of horse drawn vehicles. Army standing by train, busy streets and trams again; Colour- Red London bus travels along to Piccadilly, vintage red bus along streets, more vintage vehicles at the rally; Archive - Army poster – your country needs you; Soldiers by side of road – convoy of trucks go past, Red Cross trucks, men in battle running, soldiers at rest, wounded man put in ambulance; Colour - Present day ambulance; Archive - Man crosses street and is run over and rescued/women at work making collars for shirts/put in boxes onto trucks for delivery/inside a bakery; Colour - Current oil tanker ‘National’ pulls up at National Gas station. Tanker at airfield; Archive - Old fire station – firemen go down pole onto horse driven fire trucks also motorised truck they put out fire; Colour- Present day firemen and vehicles; Archive - Fashionable ladies posing in their costumes then present day posers
- Production Company: None
- Licensing Restrictions: None
- Viewing Restrictions: Public
- Format: BetaSP_Small
- Alternative Language Notes: None