An amateur film made by members of the Cleveland Cine Club and shot at high speed showing a phantom car journey through the streets of Middlesbrough and roads of Teesside. Across the Newport Bridge and into Haverton Hill and Port Clarence towards ICI where the protagonist in the film is nearly late for work. Title: If I Film at 2fps... The opening of the film has the driver of the car heading west along the tree-lined Belle Vue Grove in Middlesbrough. Reaching the impressive colour display...

An amateur film made by members of the Cleveland Cine Club and shot at high speed showing a phantom car journey through the streets of Middlesbrough and roads of Teesside. Across the Newport Bridge and into Haverton Hill and Port Clarence towards ICI where the protagonist in the film is nearly late for work. Title: If I Film at 2fps... The opening of the film has the driver of the car heading west along the tree-lined Belle Vue Grove in Middlesbrough. Reaching the impressive colour display of plants at the Belle Vue roundabout, the car goes around the roundabout and continues west along Marton Burn Road. Veering right and continuing along Marton Burn Road, past a Ford Anglia van and a parked Austin/Morris 1100, the car crosses another roundabout to continue west along Eastbourne Road.  He stops at the junction with The Avenue and turns left then immediately right into Cornfield Road. Continuing west, heading past the bowling club he reaches a junction with The Crescent. Turning left he travels west along The Crescent, past a milk float and a Ford Cortina parked at the kerb, past The Linthorpe Hotel on the left to the junction with Roman Road and Oxford Road. A close-up follows of the driver’s hand operating the gearstick in the car. The film cuts to the car heading north along Ayresome Green Lane, with Linthorpe cemetery on the left and Middlesbrough General Hospital on the right, in the distance Newport Bridge. The car reaches the junction with Ayresome Street, in the distance Archibald School just beyond the junction with Acklam Road. The driver turns right at the junction and heads north, past Archibald School on the left. Continuing north up Ayresome Grange Road, now demolished, the driver meets the junction with Newport Road, St Cuthbert’s Church on the left. Another quick shot follows of the driver changing gear. He negotiates the roundabout at the approach road to Newport Bridge and overtakes a ‘Sunblest’ bread van as he continues across the bridge, past a sign which reads, ‘Caution Temporary Road Surface’. Heading west along the Tees Bridge Approach Road (A1032), he follows a local potato merchant’s lorry ‘Philip E Allick Ltd Middlesbrough’. The driver overtakes the lorry, a Bedford van, a Standard saloon, and a Ford Anglia (?) before continuing along the open road approaching Haverton Hill roundabout. He then heads north along Haverton Hill Road, passing factory and industrial buildings on either side. The area to the right, mostly ICI Billingham premises. Another brief shot of a gear change, as the driver continues his journey underneath pipe bridges, past offices and cooling towers. He overtakes a Shell BP petrol tanker, and follows a heavy lorry which has ‘Smith for Service’ written on the rear edge of the flatbed. A close up of the car’s headlight as it is switched on follows. The car passes the lorry and approaches a small terrace of houses on the left, then travels up an incline and over a bridge. Past the Haverton Hill Hotel he follows the road past houses on the left.  Then the driver continues under a railway bridge, past the Queen’s Head pub (now demolished) bearing right past Clarence Street he continues along Port Clarence Road. Further along Port Clarence Road, a static shot is taken from the roadside as traffic goes by, the blue Mini car (DXG 574D), which is making this journey approaches the camera on the opposite side of the road. The camera pans left to right following the car. Another shot follows taken from the roadside in pouring rain as again the car approaches the camera. The camera follows the car panning right to left and then on into the distance. Back in the passenger seat the film continues with a travelling shot. Following a Ford Anglia which passes a terrace of shops and other businesses, including the Station Hotel, the driver bears sharp right under a small railway bridge then he takes a sharp left immediately beyond the bridge (a road which is now an emergency access road only to Koppers UK Chemical Works) following a Standard car, with a goods train on the railway to the left. The car goes past chimneys and other factory buildings. The driver turns into the parking apron at the front of a single storey brick building. An external shows the Mini pulling up to the main entrance, the Transporter Bridge in the background. The film ends with a view of the driver sitting behind the wheel is followed by: Title: …. I Can Get To Work On Time