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Hello, It is not the story you wrote, but for me it is difficult to watch some movie with lettering on the screen the whole time. We would not watch Gone With The Wind or The Terminator, if some lettering was shown across the screen all throughout the film. But it was difficult to watch the first film one you posted. This one seems like So Cal in the 59-60 era. Ed Losinski, Jack Chrisman, Art Chrisman original Hustler and Hustler 2, Jess Van Deventer Roadster and even 1ht 1958 version of the late Mickey Brown and the Quincy Automotive Oldsmobile FED, were just able to be seen if one went back several times to make sure it was who I saw in the films. Plus, I had to watch it silent as the music is not for the drags… The films showed early drag racing, but it is difficult to see it so far away and blurry to bat. The Bonneville far away shots, well, we might as well be watching the backyard ants carry on in their building schemes. Jnaki If the film is without music, and the annoying lettering on the whole screen all of the time, then it might have some historic qualities. There are only a few racers from So Cal recorded on film over the early days of drag racing. So, it is exciting to see those. But, if this film had the other digitized color clarity of the 40s-50s films of Los Angeles and the surroundings, it may have some redeeming qualities. Although, for those that were not around during those days, any recorded films should have some historic value. But not a full film with lettering on the screen or funky music added later. (It definitely is not … “Play That Funky Music…” song that will stick in your head for the rest of the day…HA!) Perhaps you might contact the producer and request those be taken out. So, kudos to the photographer/film taking person from those early days. We all did not know how or what would be developed after a weeks worth of filming and they were being developed in an industrial shop. YRMV 1959 Riverside Raceway If I had the actual recording of the Art Chrisman Hustler 2 making the smoking run, that would be the topper for early drag racing film recording. As it was or is, this is the best live film with real sound from the original race car from 1959. Jack Chrisman and Joe Malliard version of The Sidewinder 1959. real SOUND from 1959 Sidewinder So, anyone will not have to turn down the funky music that does not go with historic drag racing... Turn UP THE VOLUME of the "real "sound of the Original Recording of the Sidewinder from September 1959, while you watch the Sidewinder in So Cal during the Summer of 1959, in action. Drag Cars in Motion...
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