Laurels IV: The 1966 Acropolis Rally / Tomahawk Films ltd.
Features the Works Rootes teams, With Rosemary Smith doing really well. But the film is of the Pathe Newsreel type, not like todays BBC Grandstand covering.
Rootes took part in many sporting events, and recorded their participation by having them filmed in 16mm format. From 1950 onwards they used Stanley Schofield Productions to carry out the filming.
Many Rootes Group films are in the ARCC archive (archivist: David Staff).
The dates shown are the dates the film was registered at the BFI, London and may not be the same as the year of the event.
Imp. - 1963. - 19.0 mins.
A stage by stage description of how a new light car is conceived, designed and tested, and how it eventually goes into mass production and showing for the first time the advanced new Rootes Die-Casting Division, where the aluminium engine parts are made, and the thoroughness of testing under varied conditions.
| Director | WELSH, David |
| Production Company | Glasgow Films |
| Sponsor | Rootes |
| Producer | WELSH, David |
| Script | BAXTER, Raymond |
| Commentator | BAXTER, Raymond |
Mountain Imp. - 1964. - 18-19 min.
The story of 8 Scottish mountaineers, who use two Imps to travel from Glasgow to Southern Turkey, climb their selected mountain, then back home - all in a day's work for the two trusty Imps. The ascent of Demir Kazik in the Taurus mountains is shown.
| Director | SCHOFIELD, Stanley |
| Production Company | Stanley Schofield Productions |
| Sponsor | Rootes |
| Script | VAUGHAN-THOMAS, Wynford |
| Photography | CHALMERS, Robin |
| Editor | EAVES, Robert |
| Commentator | URQUHART, James |
Hillman Imp. - 19 min.
Predominantly Linwood factory footage, portraying Imp development, production and testing. Clearly shown aredesign studies, models, full-size clays and pre-production procedures, plus HRH Prince Philip's opening of Linwood and Imp test drive.
Imp. - 40 mins.
Imp Club video title 5 (ref 2027):
Mountian Imp (19 min.)
Hillman Imp (19 min.)
plus advertising inserts.
| Title | Young in heart |
| Alternative name | Young at heart |
| Synopsis | Looks at the development and production of the Hillman Imp at the Linwood industrial plant in Scotland. Describes the return of motor car manufacture to Scotland. It recalls the early pioneering cars once made in Scotland and traces the stages in the connection, design and testing of the Hillman Imp at Linwood, a new site near Paisley. |
| Length | 24 min. |
| Length | 35mm Film, 863 Feet |
| Cast | the girl: YUILL, Elizabeth; the boy: SIMPSON, Bill |
| Production Company | Glasgow Films |
| Year of production | 1963 or 1964? |
| Commentary | Cliff Hanley |
| Sponsors | Films of Scotland Committee Rootes Group |
| Distributor | Scottish Screen Archive |
| Producer | WELSH, David |
| Production Manager | DOUGLAS, Johnston |
| Script | HANLEY, Clifford |
| Photography | ANDERSON, Robert |
| Photography | McCONNELL, Edward |
| Music | HEDGES, Anthony |
| Commentator | MURDOCH, Bryden |
| Availability | VHS, PAL Sale; 1999 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p) Films of Scotland Collection 1954-1982, Series |
Highland Imp: the 1965 Scottish Rally / an original film from the Rootes Group. - PS Video Productions; in conjunction with the ARCC and the STAR, 1990. - vol. 23
26 min.s; VHS. - Ref 1023
The usual Imp promotional shots are folowed by a look back to Imp successes in 1964 and 1965. However the bulk of the film covers the 1965 Scottish rally.
The success of the Hillman Imp in international events since 1963, showing the International Tulip Rally and the International Scottish Rally with 'Tiny' Lewis a nd Rosemary Smith.
| Director | SCHOFIELD, Stanley |
| Production Company | Stanley Schofield Productions |
| Sponsor | Rootes |
| Photography | OLLERENSHAW, Derek |
| Editor | EAVES, Robert |
| Commentator | BAXTER, Raymond |
Miss Smith and her Imp: the 1965 Alpine Rally / Stanley Schofield; an original film from the Rootes Group, 1966. - PS Video Productions; in conjunction with the ARCC and the STAR, 1990. - vol. 22
19 min.s; VHS. - Ref 1022
The Alpine Rally as seen by Rosemary Smith, a rally driver and dress designer. The Alpine rally as seen by a contestant.
| Director | SCHOFIELD, Stanley |
| Production Company | Stanley Schofield Productions |
| Sponsor | Rootes |
| Script | BAXTER, Raymond |
| Editor | EAVES, Robert |
| Commentator | SMITH, Rosemary |
Record Breaking Imp. - 1966. - 23-25 minutes
The Hillman Imp taking part in a variety of races and rallies over 1965/6
The achievements over a 12 month period of the Hillman Imp in breaking records, including Operation Europe, involving the R.A.F.
It opens with some Imp factory production shots, then goes on to review the Rootes-supported rally and endurance events of 1965 and 1966, to demonstrate to Imp's reliability and ruggedness. Examples are Florida to Alaska in a week; Oslo to Spain and back; etc. All with standard vehicles. Rosemary Smith is competing in various of the shown rallies.
| Director | SCHOFIELD, Stanley |
| Production Company | Stanley Schofield Productions |
| Sponsor | Rootes |
| Script | RICHARDS, R. |
| Editor | EAVES, Robert |
| Sound | PITT, Gordon |
| Sound | MORGAN, John |
| Commentator | ASPEL, Michael |
Monte Carlo Imp. - 1967. - 22 minutes
The Monte Carlo Rally of 1967 (includes Tiger)
The sponsor's Sunbeam Imps winning two class prizes in the rally
| Production Company | Stanley Schofield Productions |
| Sponsor | Rootes Group |
| Script | RICHARDS, Robin |
| Commentator | ASPEL, Michael |
North American Imp. - 1967 or 1966?. - 20 minutes
The week long journey of 6,162 miles from Miami, Florida to Fairbanks, Alaska in an Imp, and another journey from Toronto to the mountains on the Pacific coast
| Producer | SCHOFIELD, Stanley |
| Production Company | Stanley Schofield Productions |
| Sponsor | Rootes |
| Editor | EAVES, Robert |
| Commentator | ASPEL, Michael |
Special Section - 1965. - 16mm Film. - 20.0 mins.
Dramatisation showing the specialist skills of high speed driving in one of the special sections of the 1965 Monte Carlo Rally and the successful performance of the Sunbeam Tigers and Hillman Imps
| Director | SCHOFIELD, Stanley |
| Production Company | Stanley Schofield Productions |
| Sponsor | Rootes |
| Photography | OLLERENSHAW, Derek |
| Photography | EAVES, Robert |
| Sound | PITT, Gordon |
| Commentator | BAXTER, Raymond |
| Title | Scotland - Europe's Newest | |
| Date submitted | 2 May 1963 | |
| Date released | 6 May 1963 | |
| Description | Just outside Glasgow the new Hillman Imp is being made at Rootes new factory. Opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, the new factory is now the most modern car-assembly works in the world. The Imp has plenty of luggage space and has a top speed of 75 miles-per-hour, and 40-45 per gallon. The engine-block is of die-cast aluminium and the whole car incorporates the latest engineering techniques. | |
| Shotlist | Key scene. MLS Duke of Edinburgh looks at Rootes stand. MS pan - same. MS Duke walks round Rootes factory. MS machine at work. MCU officials shows Duke part of car. MS Duke walks round, same looks at machinery at work (2 shots). TS same. MS the new Hillman Imp. MS Duke gets into Imp. MS same drives off. MS Imp, man lifts up boot and shows engine (2 shots). MS people into Imp. MS same drives off. Steering column (2 shots). Imp along road (tracking shot) (2 shots) | |
| Keywords | Royalty; Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Ceremonies | |
| Locations | Scotland; Linwood | |
| Footage sources | Templar Films | |
| Commentator | Leslie Mitchell | |
| Link | Movietone (British Movietone News) http://www.movietone.com | |
| Length of story (in time) | 79 secs | |
| Length of story (in feet) | 125 |
| Title | Rootes Factory in Scotland | |
| Description | COI synopsis: Opening of the new Rootes factory in Scotland by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh and the qualities of the Hillman Imp which is being made there. | |
| Keywords | Industry and manufacture; Motor vehicles | |
| Locations | London; Scotland; Paisley; Linwood | |
| Written sources | The National Archives INF 6 /138 - used for synopsis COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive] - COI Reference: MI 976/63 | |
| Commentator | Carlos Cotrin / Sponsors: Central Office of Information (COI); Commonwealth Relations Office; Foreign Office Frederick MacFarlane / Director & Producer: John Hall Leonard Martin / Director & Producer: Raylton Fleming | |
| Link | record only | |
| Date Released | 1963 | |
| Length of story (in feet) | 462; Story No.7 within this issue of 9 stories |
Rootes Dealer Briefing Filmstrips. - Rootes Group, 1963 February.
A sales pack to give information to dealers on the new Hillman Imp. Contained a 12" 33rpm record and two 35mm filmstrips (for a filmstrip projector). The strip runs for 30 minutes with about 170 slides (photos, graphics, cartoons). The filmstrips were intended to be shown on a filmstrip projector with the soundtrack on a record, with 'bleeps' to indicate when to move on to the next slide.
Imp 66 Briefing. - Rootes Group, 1966 February
A record with filmstrips.
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"Sell the Imp with confidence" / Chrysler Rootes; Marketing Division. - Visulex Production 569 : 2.66
a small tin (2 in. diameter) with a filmstrip with (at a guess) perhaps 60 slides
Linwood no More
The Car's the star / BBC
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