Driving Instructors (1956)

Hampstead, London. Various shots of a car speeding and skidding around a test circuit at the Motor Schools Association where driving instructors are trained. M, S in an instruction room as a man in a suit, William Brown, stands in the centre of a fourwheeled contraption for testing car reversal technique; he steers carefully to reverse in between two kerbs as another suited man, trainer Bill Esom, watches. They both walk over to a model of a car engine; the trainer pulls levers and explains the workings to William. Then we see William get into a model car; a woman, Carol Fedo, is sitting in the driving seat. Carol starts to drive and Bill corrects her handling of the steering wheel. M, S from behind William and Carol in the model car; on the wall in front of them are various road signs and some model traffic lights. C, U of the traffic lights as instructions to Start, Accelerate and Change Up light up on the wall. C, Us of Carol concentrating while changing gear and of her feet on the pedal