It has been a mystery stretching back 35 years but now the full story of a lost reel of cine film, an amateur cameraman, and some rare colour footage of Donald Campbell's fatal crash on Coniston Water can be told for the first time, reports Michaela Robonson-Tate.
Amateur cameraman Mike Nicholson, 69, has been reunited with extraordinary footage which he had given up as lost many years ago, and which captures the final tragic few seconds in Campbell's life as he attempted to break his own world water speed record in his Bluebird boat in January 1967.
Although there is understood to be at least one other example of colour footage of the accident in existence, Mr Nicholson's precious moments of film are likely to be seized on by enthusiasts as a remarkable find.
See our Features - Campbell section for more.
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