The Epping Forest MA filled Kensington Town Hall on the evening of December 9th, when the club put on a programme of nine motor-racing films, including the world premiere of the Clarke Film Unit’s Grand Prix du Reims (1957). Many celebrities, including Hawthorn and Lewis-Evans, watched the show, which was notable for presenting only GP films — no sports-car racing.

After an advertising film incorporating some instructive servicing data about Girling disc brakes, we saw an excellent colour film of hero Donald Campbell raising the Water Speed Record at Nevada in his jet-propelled Bluebird. This was followed by Castrol’s film of the 1957 Monaco GP, which caught the atmosphere of Monte Carlo with shots of the scenery, the bathing beauties and H.S.H Prince Rainier arriving for the start of the race. Although some of this film makes the cars travel at impossible speeds, this is counterbalanced by some very effective cornering scenes taken from above the course.