Austin Festival Review (1951)

Promotional film made for Austin cars during the year of the Festival of Britain. “Car-Mart“ logo is seen on the main title. We see the South Bank site of the Festival. We see the Skylon, the “pretty interpreters“, radar equipment, various buildings under construction, displays, etc. In the transport pavilion we see a variety of exhibits including jet engines, outside we see a locomotive, Emett’s railway in Battersea Park and a model of Great Exhibition of 1851. There begins a historical recreation telling the history of travel from horse drawn vehicles to the modern motor car. Horse drawn coaches, archive footage of the horse omnibus, steam locomotives, old fashioned bicycle, penny farthing, primitive cars, etc. People dressed in historical costume ride in old fashioned cars. Most of this footage was shot in the 1950s but some of it is older. We see various Austin cars including racing cars, the “Baby Austin“, car rallies, the “Big 7“, “Austin 8“, etc. Narrator states that Austin has come to m