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 MFQ VOLUME 1


Target 200 (1964) Ford Motor Company
A rare documentary film record of the development of the original Ford GT, testing and racing at Goodwood, Lemans and Reims-Gueux, plus a ride with Bruce McLaren. (17:52)

1954 Grand Prix de l'ACF, Reims-Gueux (1954) Daimler-Benz AG
Sensationally shot coverage of Mercedes-Benz's return to Grand Prix racing with Juan Manuel Fangio, Karl Kling, Hans Herrmann and the W196 Stromlinienwagen. (9:56)

See & Believe (1933) Morris Motors
Leading edge promotional film, '30s style. You might see it, but you will scarcely believe it. (4:37)

The Pace that Thrills (1936) Austin Motor Company
The design and development of Lord Austin's legendary 750cc OHC Racers. Covers the 1936 competition appearances at Brooklands, Shelsley Walsh, Donington and the Isle of Man. (10:28)

Jenks 1920 - 1996
Legendary motor racing journalist and author Denis Jenkinson on camera- our tribute. (9:11)

1906 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France
Using newly uncovered material, and film from the cutting room floor, Bill Mason revisits his famous production on the first Grand Prix of all. Commentary by Simon Taylor. (11:09)

Sir Jack at 75 - Part 1
Episode One from an Audience with Triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham- covering his career from the Australian dirt tracks to the Monaco GP of 1957. (17:52)

Dunlop Racing Service 1959 Dunlop Rubber Company
Newsreel style production of highlights, sidelights and oddities from a memorable British Season - in wonderful color. (3:29)

Total Running Time 1 Hour 29 Minutes

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1961 Belgian Grand Prix Smiths Industries
Rare colour coverage of the historic 'Sharknose' Ferrari 1-2-3-4 success on Belgium's fantastic, superfast Spa-Francorchamps circuit - Phil Hill, 'Taffy' von Trips, Richie ginther and Olivier Gendebien star in Maranello's finest. (11:04)

The Mighty Atom (1934) Austin Motor Company
Wonderful period promotional film demonstrating the versatility of the Austin Seven engine - featuring 'Rubber Duck' racing cars at Brooklands and Shelsley Walsh, a fruit farm tractor, a highly unorthodox motorcycle (and rider) and a hydroplane. (5:38)

1955 Monte Carlo Rally Standard Motor Company
From the epic era of woolly hats, duffle coats and thermos flasks - all classic car life is here - from the Aston Martin DB2/4 to Porsche 356, and Standard Ten to Armstrong-Siddeley. Spectacular color coverage from the snows of Chambery to the rain swept perils of the Monaco Grand Prix circuit. (20:06)

1954 Grosser Preis von Deutschland Daimler Benz AG
Continuing the Stuttgart marque's own sensational coverage of Mercedes Benz's Grand Prix racing comeback, with Juan Manuel Fangio, Karl Kling, Hans Herrmann, and the brand new open wheeled W196 confronting Ferrari and the Nurburgring. (13:05)

Sir Jack at 75 - Part 2
Episode Two of our audience with Sir Jack Brabham - continuing his career with Cooper Cars throught 1958 to the 1959 United States Grand Prix when he pushed his car across the line to secure his first World Championship crown! (12:43)

1957 Mille Miglia Rootes Group
Rare color coverage of the last real Mille Miglia of all. Shot for (and from) the Rootes Group's Sunbeam Rapier entries this wonderful footage covers everything, from 4-cam Ferraris and V8 Maseratis to the most humble of addordable saloons. (20:03)

Total Running Time 1 Hour 32 Minutes

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1954 Swiss Grand Prix Daimler Benz AG
Part three of the Stuttgart marque's own sensational coverage of Mercedes Benz's Grand Prix racing comeback season with Fangio, Kling, Herrmann and the mighty W196 works cars on Berne's awesome Brembarten forest circuit. (6:33)

1976 British Grand Prix
Wonderfully 'inside' coverage of the sensational Brands Hatch race which saw James Hunt versus Niki Lauda - McLaren versus Ferrari! Regazzoni takes out Lauda in turn one. Hunt's car is damaged, crowd power buys him time. They restart, and the rest is history, captured here in this marvellous film. (23:12)

1912 Drama at Dieppe
Perhaps the earliest dramatised movie set against the real life backdrop of a Grand Prix race. Thrill to hero Jean Ribos' derring-do. Pity the tearful heroine as her true love crashes badly. Boo the foul villain as his sabotage lies revealed. Enjoy the happy outcome. Escape before the anthem... (9:47)

The Models of Harry Olrog
Master mechanic Harry Olrog joined GN building cyclecars in 1927, moved soon to building Frazer Nashes, and remained with AFN Ltd far into his 70s when - in spare moments and from scrap - he built a series of masterly scale models...(7:50)

1964 Tigers at LeMans The Rootes Group
Lovely period movie coverage of 'the other Cobra' - the works Sunbeam Tiger - strutting its stuff in the shows of the Geneva Rally, then - as modified by Lister - rubling around LeMans. (18:33)

Sir Jack at 75 - Part 3
Episode Three of our audience with Sir Jack Brabham -three time World Champion Driver - following his career from 1960 Formula 1 domination to fiery catastrophe and miraculous escape in the 1964 Indianapolis 500. (16:11)

Total Running Time 1 Hour 29 Minutes

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 MFQ VOLUME 4


1950 British Grand Prix
Wonderful color film of the first ever FIA Drivers' World Championship qualifying Grand Prix - Royal Silverstone - the race with everything: King George IV, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Alfas, Maseratis, beer and sandwiches, even salmon and salad cream! (12:14)

Sir Jack at 75 - Part 4
Episode Four of our audience with Sir Jack Brabham -three time World Champion Driver - including his third Title season of 1966 and featuring rare footage of MRD Brabham production and the South Pacific Championship on the supreme country road circuit at Longford, Tasmania! (15:35)

1962 Monte Carlo Rally The Rootes Group
Graham Hill kicked off his first World Championship season earning £75 to drive a works Sunbeam Rapier here on 'The Monte' - modified production car fun and games in color around the Alpes Maritimes and Monaco Grand Prix circuit. (19:49)

1954 Italian, Spanish and Berlin Grands Prix Daimler Benz AG
Completing the Stuttgart marque's own sensational coverage of Mercedes Benz's Grand Prix racing comeback, with Fangio, Kling, Hermann versus the world at Monza, Pedrables (Bacelona) and on the fearsome North Wall of the AVUS (Berlin). (14:48)

1955 Goodwood 9 Hours
Superb classic coverage of the third and final 9 Hours endurance race to be run on the legendary Sussex circuit - daytime in color, nighttime in black and white - a fantastic look back at Jaguar versus Aston Martin, triumph and tragedy amongst the corn stooks. (19:21)

Total Running Time 1 Hour 29 Minutes

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 MFQ VOLUME 5


24 Hours to Victory (1963) The Rover Company Ltd
Brilliant quality color documentary on development of the revolutionary Rover-BRM gas turbine car which ran at LeMans in 1963. Graham Hill and Richie Ginther test at MIRA and LeMans before the race weekend itself. (14:36)

1937 Grand Prix season - Part One
First instalment of this historic propaganda film made by 'you know who' covers the 1937 Tripoli GP, AVUSRennen, EifelRennen, Vanderbilt Cup on Long Island, USA, and the Belgian Grand Prix. Featuring the rare original sound track. (6:57)

Sir Jack at 75 - Part 5
Our entertaining audience with the three times World Champion Driver, including memories of team mates Denny Hulme, Dan Gurney, Jochen Rindt and Jacky Ickx, and of Ron Dennis' crucial role after a shattering testing accident....(12:25)

1961 BRDC May Meeting, Silverstone
Amateur film maker Freddie Barratt won an Amateur Cine World 'Ten Best' Gold Star, 1962, for this wonderful 8mm film. Enjoy Gurney's Impala verus Jaguar, Lotus 19 versus Cooper Monaco, Formula Junior and InterContinental too! (13:47)

1954 Alpine Rally Standard Motor Company
Wonderful period coverage of one of the toughest of all the great classic Alpine Rallies as Stirling Moss and the Sunbeam-Talbot works team grasp the chance to go for an Alpine Gold Cup - mid summer rallying amidst unseasonal Alpine snow drifts. (22:45)

World Champion (1963) Esso
RIDE WITH JIM CLARK IN HIS LOTUS 25 - unique Esso footage shows Formula 1 preparation at Cheshunt and Coventry Climax, practice for the 1963 British Grand Prix and a magnificent lap of Oulton Park with Jim Clark - your World Champion chauffeur! (12:07)

Total Running Time 1 Hour 26 Minutes

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 MFQ VOLUME 6


1937 Grand Prix Season ­ Part Two
Mercedes-Benz W125s versus Auto Union V16s in the second and final instalment of this historic first-hand film -covering the 1937 German,Monaco,Swiss,Italian,Masaryk andDonington GPs plus the Coppa Acerbo at Pescara.See W125 on-board in colour...

The End of the Beginning (1965) The Rover Company Ltd
Another superb-quality colour documentary completing the story of the revolutionary Rover-BRM gas-turbine Le Mans car.Development is continued before Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart 's troubled drive in the 1965 24-Hour classic.

Sir Jack Brabham at 75 ­ Part 6
The concluding part of our audience with Formula 1 's three-times World ChampionDriver,including his memories of the three 1970 GPs he should have won­at Monaco, Brands Hatch and Hockenheim,his plans for retirement and his three sons successful start in motor racing.

Two Grands Prix (1965)
The second in our series of fascinating 8mm productions from amateur film-maker Freddie Barratt,reminding us of the camaraderie and extraordinary access possible in Formula 1 paddocks of the 1960s -an evocative spectators ' eye view of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and the Dutch at Zandvoort.

Mille Miglia 1953 ­ Part One Shell
First part of one of the finest motor racing movies ever made ­directed by our late colleague Bill Mason,this is the definitive motion picture record of Italy 's awesome 1,000-mile public road race.We see pre-race preparation around the factories,the festivities around scrutineering and the famous ramp-start in Brescia,before the racebegins in earnest

Total Running Time 1 Hour 27 Minutes

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MFQ VOLUME 7


Round the Ring (1962) ­ Shell (10:05)
Continuing our Bill Mason series of films made for Shell,an in-car lap of Nurburgring in a 1937 W125 GP car,driven by pre-war ace Hermann Lang!With Neubauer in the pits, and commentary by Graham Hill,Bill created this wonderful short film using discarded colour footage he shot for Part 4 of his famous Shell film...

'The Titans'. Tour de France Automobile (1964) - Part One Standard Triumph (16:59)
Part One of this great coverage takes us to the first three circuit stages of this truly classic event,Reims,Rouen and Le Mans.See the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupes confront Ferrari's 250 GTOs.while the touring car section is contested by Jaguar Mark IIs,works Mini-Coopers,Ford Mustangs and the mighty Galaxie.

Race Day ­ May Silverstone 1966 (12:24)
The third in our series of fascinating 8mm productions from amateur film-maker Freddie Barratt,a spectator's eye view of the BRDC International Trophy Meeting at Silverstone. Covers the Sports,Saloon,Formula 1,Formula
3 and Historic races.

1956 Alpine Rally - British Motor Corporation (19:41)
A beautifully made colour film made to promote the new MGA hardtop sportscar and covering the great European summertime rally in which the coveted Coupes des Dames was won by Mrs Nancy Mitchell driving one of Abingdon's pretty little debutantes...

Mille Mille Miglia 1953 - Part Two Shell (20:29)
Part two of perhaps the finest motor racing movie ever made.Directed by our late colleague Bill Mason,this is the definitive motion picture record of Italy 's awesome 1,000-mile public road race.Follow the latter-day action all the way back to Brescia.

Total Running Time 1 Hour 27 Minutes

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MFQ VOLUME 8

Tour de France Automobile (1964) ­ Part two (23:40)
Part Two of this great coverage of a truly classic event. The surviving cars ranging from Ferrari GTOs to works Mini-Coopers battle it out on this punishing tour of French circuits including: Cognac, Pau,Albi and Auvergne, before crossing over into Italy for the final circuit event at Monza. In between circuit events the diminishing field is subjected to punishing special stages and hill-climbs.

The British Grand Prix 1960 ­ Silverstone (14:14)
Film number four in our series of fascinating 8mm productions from amateur film-maker Freddie Barratt. This time his subject is the 1960 British Grand Prix, one of his earlier motor racing films. Supportiong races are not ignored and includes rare footage of Colin Chapman winning the Saloon Car Race in a borrowed MarkII Jaguar from Jack Sears in a similar car. Wonderful spectator's eye view nostalga....

1950 Alpine Rally ­ Part One The Roots Group (10:47)
Part One of what must be one of the earliest colur rally films. It was made to promote the Roots Group team of Sunbeam Talbots and Hillmans entered in this most prestigious International event. A rare glimpse of post war European motoring conditions...rough, dusty unsurfaced roads, very little traffic, no crash hats, no Armco barriers, little support and rolled up sleeves!

Grand Prix 1949 ­ Shell (28:05)
Another of the great Shell films from Director Bill Mason, and one his favourites. Made on a shoestring budget, with clockwork cameras, and a 78rpm record recorder housed in a large van, this film perfectly captures the atmosphere at this pioneer event on the old Silverstone airfield. It looks more like a poorly attended club meeting than an International Grand Prix. It is introduced with archive footage of early Grand Prix races, a hint of what was to come with Bill's brilliant "History of Motor Racing"series of Shell films.

 

Total Running Time 1 Hour 28 Minutes

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MFQ VOLUME 9


1950 Alpine Rally - Part Two - The Roots Group (7:30)
Completeing our presentation of one of the earliestfull color documentaries to cover an International rally. Remarkably atmospheric footage follows the fortunes of such exotica as Norman Garrad's works Sunbeam-Talbot team and Tommy Wisdom's Hillman Minx in the gruelling marathon around the mountains.

1996 - The House that Jenks Built (12:26)
Denis Jenkinson - renowned thoughout the motor sporting world as 'DSJ' or 'Jenks' - veteran Continental Correspondend of 'Motor Sport' Magazine, Stirling Moss's intrepid Mille Miglia navigator, 1949 World Motorcycle Sidecar Champion passenger - lived an extraordinary life in rural Hampshire. Doug Nye takes us on a privileged tour of the property.

1960 BRDC International Trophy - Silverstone (18:30)
Amateur film maker Freddie Barratt's award winning 8mm home movie captures in color a spectator's eye view of the great British non-Championship Formula 1 race meeting. Superb sports, Formula Junior, Saloon and Formula 1 car action and detail.

1964 LeMans 24 Hours - Standard Triumph (28:00)
Tiddler's perspective record of a great Grand Prix d'Endurance . Beautiful color footage follows the fortunes of the Standard - Triumph Spitfire team in day-long combat against Alfa Romeo and Alpine while Ferrari, Shelby American Cobra Daytona, Aston Martin and Maserati for once provide the supporting cast.

Exhibit B801 - The MG Car Company (16:40)
The United Kingdom bounced back from profound post WWII recession with the 1951 Festival of Britain. World record breaker Goldie-Gardner's fantastic MG 'EX135' starred as the Festival's 'Exhibit B801' before being shipped to the Bonneville Salt Flats to resume its flat-out competition career. Excellent quality black and white footage tells the tale.

 

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