The prior message with this subject was meant to go off-list.
Since it didn't...
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b) please accept my sign-off info:
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> 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/
> 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
> >
> >
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