Recently the East Anglian Film Archive have started to make some of their motor sport footage available on-line. It includes both pre and post war events for cars and motor cycles. Hopefully there is more to follow.
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Leigh Trevail
, Dec 26 2011 10:30
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Paul Parker
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Posted 26 December 2011 - 11:23
Recently the East Anglian Film Archive have started to make some of their motor sport footage available on-line. It includes both pre and post war events for cars and motor cycles. Hopefully there is more to follow.
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Fascinating and wonderful, thank you for posting this.
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Posted 26 December 2011 - 11:33
Don't miss the stop-motion "Road Hogs in Toyland" - nice bit of social commentary on those awful autocarists! Nick Park would be proud of that ;)
Edited by Vitesse2, 26 December 2011 - 11:33.
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Posted 26 December 2011 - 12:02
Recently the East Anglian Film Archive have started to make some of their motor sport footage available on-line. It includes both pre and post war events for cars and motor cycles. Hopefully there is more to follow.
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WONDERFUL !
Superb B&W photography ,uncontrolled sound drowning out the commentary ech time Innes and Jack
came past in the 1961 Lombank Trophy race.
I really look forward to more from my favourite circuit ,Snetterton.
Non motorsport films were most interesting as well .
Please post more SOON.
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Posted 26 December 2011 - 12:50
Great stuff Leigh !
In the 1961 Car Trials from Snetterton I couldn't help recognising 'Bert Westwood' driving some kind of special !
Bill.
In the 1961 Car Trials from Snetterton I couldn't help recognising 'Bert Westwood' driving some kind of special !
Bill.
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Posted 27 December 2011 - 05:17
Great footage ...... Leigh.
I like the Page2 1978 Hethel Norfolk .
Lotus lover drule.
I like the Page2 1978 Hethel Norfolk .
Lotus lover drule.
Edited by eldougo, 30 December 2011 - 00:05.
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Leigh Trevail
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Posted 29 December 2011 - 09:31
I am pleased that the film archive has been so well received. I am still going through it one clip at a time; so as yet I have not seen all of it. The Auto Tests at Snetterton is one of my favourites Auto Test ,as Bill mentions it shows rally driver Bert Westwood in car no. 8 and the chap in the tweed jacket (13 seconds into the film) is Don Morley the Austin Healey driver.
I remember as a sixteen year old in 1976; Anglia TV showing a programme about Barry Sheene at Snetterton with his Suzuki. It was aired about 10-30 in the evening but I was down the pub and missed it. It would be great to get a chance to see it!
I remember as a sixteen year old in 1976; Anglia TV showing a programme about Barry Sheene at Snetterton with his Suzuki. It was aired about 10-30 in the evening but I was down the pub and missed it. It would be great to get a chance to see it!
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Posted 29 December 2011 - 10:11
I am pleased that the film archive has been so well received. I am still going through it one clip at a time; so as yet I have not seen all of it. The Auto Tests at Snetterton is one of my favourites Auto Test ,as Bill mentions it shows rally driver Bert Westwood in car no. 8 and the chap in the tweed jacket (13 seconds into the film) is Don Morley the Austin Healey driver.
I remember as a sixteen year old in 1976; Anglia TV showing a programme about Barry Sheene at Snetterton with his Suzuki. It was aired about 10-30 in the evening but I was down the pub and missed it. It would be great to get a chance to see it!
That Autotest is an excellent little film. It takes place on the north eastern end of the main runway, which ran diagonally up from Riches, to near where the circuit entrance road is now. Amazing how little traffic there is in the background on the A11.
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Posted 29 December 2011 - 12:14
Terrific stuff Leigh. Thanks for the link. 
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Leigh Trevail
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Posted 29 December 2011 - 13:32
The Pilkington Committee film Pilkington is over seventeen minutes long with just a few seconds of motor racing. Therefore it is possible that TNFers would not want to sit through articles on late 1950s land drainage or sugar beet, if so; fast forward to 14-08 to see a Cooper Climax roll at Riches. Does anyone know who the unfortunate driver was?
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Posted 01 January 2012 - 01:48
Thanks for sharing the link to this archive. I have been just watching loads of different films on any subject in the archive as it is all quite interesting, and not just the motor racing ones.
A few I liked were...
About Anglia: Car Breaker's Yard
About Anglia: 32nd Anniversary of the R101 Disaster at Beauvais, France
I really enjoyed Light On East Anglia where the sun was always shining and every car was a new BMC. I liked seeing places on the film and then looking them up in Google street view to see how they had changed...
A few I liked were...
About Anglia: Car Breaker's Yard
About Anglia: 32nd Anniversary of the R101 Disaster at Beauvais, France
I really enjoyed Light On East Anglia where the sun was always shining and every car was a new BMC. I liked seeing places on the film and then looking them up in Google street view to see how they had changed...
