Re: [CR]Re: 1950's British Cycling Touring Documentary

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: 1950's British Cycling Touring Documentary
To: Carl Gonzalez <bikecg@gmail.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <5127e7b60705120544n52073418x9abad9f3d498bd6c@mail.gmail.com>


Carl, I also remember seeing those short films duringthe '50s and early '60s. Where did we actually see them? At the movie theatre, before Rodan and Godzilla? On Saturday morning TV, before Modern Farmer? By the way, if you have cable TV and can get Speed Channel, they show the old British motor and bike racing films all the time. But I think they usually play them at the same time that Modern Farmer used to be on - i.e. really early, or really late. You can find some of those films on You Tube, too:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=history+of+motor+racing+pt+1 Regards, Fred


> That film was a great YouTube experience. I really like
> documentaries that
> used to come from the UK back in the fifties. This one
> reminded me a lot of
> the documentaries on British motoring, specifically sports
> cars and sports
> car racing. They all had the John Lovett style "Subway"
> commercial narrator
> (only US CR members know what I'm speaking about I'm sure.)
> Having a
> Raleigh Carlton Competition with Bluemels and a Carradice,
> watching that
> film made me want to bring the old boy out of the basement,
> skip work and
> pedal to Rugby.
>
> Carl Gonzalez
> Bay Village, OH US