More Historic Videos

[Jon Fuller]

I've got a mamouth amount of historic video footage (some 30 hours in total) to share.

Graham Stevens has kindly spent many hours copying these vids onto DV format for me, some old TV footage, some specialist produced stuff, and the majority, are Grahams own Cine and video he shot himself over the years.

As the task of converting these videos to .WMV, and uploading them to the media server isn't going to be lightning fast, I'm going to just do them in a fairly random order, ticking them off the list as I go.

First up is the Ford sponsored documentory on the famed, 3000 mile London to Monte Carlo race, won by Mike Bellamy in HTS. (25 mins)

Enjoy, and raise your glass to Graham for sharing his astonishing colection with us.

http://media.boatmad.com/gallery/v/m...carlo.wmv.html

[Captain Chaos]

[Black_Tornado]

I'm just finished to see the movie: fantastic!
Good colours,good image. A complete story about the London-Montecarlo.
Many thanks to Graham and his precious archive.
Many thanks to Jon.
I'm waiting with children impatience the others videos!

[Jon Fuller]

I've just started the upload of a 40 minute vid covering the 1986 racing in Guernsey, will leave it uploading over night.

This is going to be a slow proccess, and given that the videos (at the current compression rate) are weighing in at about 6meg/minute, I will have to rationalise, and choose the cream to upload, and see how things go 'space wise'. to upload all of it, would be about 11Gig, which is a bit crazy.

[Captain Chaos]

I'll send you 3 DVDs

[Jon Fuller]

Originally Posted by Captain Chaos

I'll send you 3 DVDs

Thanks! always handy

[Foolish]

looking forward to watching all of it

Originally Posted by Jon Fuller

I will have to rationalise, and choose the cream to upload, and see how things go 'space wise'.

If it means there is some you can't host due to space/bandwidth the offer still stands for additional storage with unlimited transfer (reseller account)

[Captain Chaos]

did you want the schoolgirl or all-boy ones?

[Ben]

Thank you Graham and Jon.

[Captain Chaos]

yes, to be serious for a brief mo:

thanks to you both, have watched the Lon-Mc clip tonight & think its fab. looking forward to the rest

[Jon Fuller]

OK, here's number 2.

1986 Guernsey. 1.3 & 4 litre worlds. plus Class 1 & II

Some decent footage of the 40' Planatec 'Follet' and Dick Struttons 46 Cougar 'Toyota RHS'

http://media.boatmad.com/gallery/v/m...sey86.wmv.html

[Black_Tornado]

However,for a better quality and a complete footage I suggest to make some dvd to put them on sell.

[Matt]

We can already support full dvd quality films on the server - of course it's then up to your broadband connection, but there's no problem with leaving them downloading overnight etc if you want full dvd quality 4Gb+ footage.

Mebbe we should have a some of these vids on a "paid members only" area of the server.

[sparkyvince]

Originally Posted by Jon Fuller

OK, here's number 2.

1986 Guernsey. 1.3 & 4 litre worlds. plus Class 1 & II

Some decent footage of the 40' Planatec 'Follet' and Dick Struttons 46 Cougar 'Toyota RHS'

http://media.boatmad.com/gallery/v/m...sey86.wmv.html

jon,amazing footage,i am still having angry words with my parents over the video i promised you,it is just the same kind of footage only from a boat,and if i can remember it`s from inside a marshan 21 with an ex 200 that had been to mars and back and it had trouble starting,i will continue looking.

[littlenige]

Huge thanks to Jon and Graham. Wonderful stuff.

I have some unedited footage somewhere that TVS took from the Cowes race many years ago (around 88? I think). Great overhead shot from a helicopter of Achille Motors screaming along in the Solent. Must dig it out!

[Jon Fuller]

Originally Posted by littlenige

Huge thanks to Jon and Graham. Wonderful stuff.

Thanks need to go to Graham & Matt, not me, the video(s) are hosted on Matts server. All I've done, is convert and upload them.

[Jon Fuller]

Here's another.

This time, it's from Grahams home shot Cine collection, and is of the 1970 Cowes Torquay race.

http://media.boatmad.com/v/multimedi...wes70.wmv.html

[Carl]

the 9 and the 0 are very close on the key pad, thought it looked old for 79,i began to work my age out again,please tell me its 70

[littlenige]

Yes it´s 1970! Hey Tim is that you on the deck of Black Tornado??

What wonderful footage!!

[TimB-C]

oh don't give my age away.............................yep