24 Hours of Le Mans Grand Prix of Endurance Race Circuite De La Sarthe Xd5246 (1957)
1957 · Short film · 28 min
Synopsis
Created by Random Films, this historic documentary shows the highlights from the 1957 Le Mans 24 hour race, the 25th running of the famed race. It starts with an overview of some of the cars and the teams featured including Teams Maserati, Ferrari, Jaguar, and Aston Martin. This is followed by the excitement of the opening ceremony of the race. Afterwards, there is coverage of various shots of the 8.38 mile course, hard racing, pit stops, cars being left behind, and exciting night racing as the race goes on. It ends with the pit crowds rushing the drivers as they pull in after finishing the race, with a resounding victory for Team Jaguar. It was an unprecedented sweep for the British, taking the first four places and sixth. The victories are even more surprising given that all of the cars were privately entered.0:08 Title “Le Mans 1957”, 0:14 a large crowd looking at a line up of racecars, 0:47 artists painting numbers on the racecars, 0.54 the 4.5 Maserati cope, 1:41 different Jaguar models on display, 2:35 old cars drive down the circuit with people in old clothes, 3:10 an overview of the crowd, 3:19 different angles of the Jaguar team cars, 3:59 three Aston Martin cars, 4:10 all the Maserati models lined up with Harry Shell inspecting them, 4:23 different Ferrari models lined up, 4:40 overview of the Lotus models, 5:27 French Gendarmes on motorcycles drive by, 5:33 cars drive onto the track, 5:53 teams guide the cars into their starting positions, 6:47 the cars lined up…
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- Running time
- 28 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Duncan Hamilton
- Random Films
- Le Mans
- Teams Maserati
- Aston Martin
- Team Jaguar
- Harry Shell
- French Gendarmes
- Collins Ferrari
- Keith Hall