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The world's most comprehensive motoring film archive now available to car enthusiasts everywhere |
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 |
www.auto-history.tv
Universal Motoring History is pleased to announce the launch of a major new motoring film archive which can be viewed and owned by car enthusiasts across the globe.
Located on the Internet at www.auto-history.tv, the archive contains literally hundreds of individual motoring films from the past 100+ years, including a number of the earliest known recordings of motorised transport from the end of the 1890s, to many films featuring the subsequent development and evolution of the motor car throughout the 20th Century.
A significant number of the films, most of which are between two and 10
minutes in length, were previously thought to have been “lost” or
destroyed and have largely remained unseen for more than 50 years.
The complete collection, which currently consists of more than 500
films, covers every aspect of motoring history, including the beginning
of mass production, world land speed record runs, car commercials,
motor shows, new car launches, the evolution of car design,
experimental cars, flying cars, famous drivers, stunt driving, unusual
military machines and more. There’s also extensive racing footage from
Le Mans, Indianapolis, Monte Carlo and many of the other major
international motor racing circuits, as well as hill climbs, street
racing and stock car racing from around the world.
Purchase a copy of the entire archive outright
A selection of five random films from the archive will be available for
download each week for just £3.99, or, the entire archive of more than
500 films can be purchased on a smart, portable, external computer hard
drive, priced at only £199, with all the films able to be viewed at
full screen quality on any standard computer or modern television.
"We are happy to make this epic collection of films available for
everybody to enjoy as we believe this will be the first time that
serious car enthusiasts will have a chance to view and keep such a
large collection of films which show how the motor car was originally
developed over 100 years ago and then subsequently evolved throughout
the 20th Century,” says Richard Green, Universal Motoring History’s
managing director.
Although the quality of some of the older films is inevitably not of
the standard that most people are used to today, the company has
exploited modern digital technology to clean and enhance as much of the
footage as possible to improve the viewing experience.
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