The Vintagent Trailers: Missile From The East
https://vimeo.com/601051015
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there.
MISSILE FROM THE EAST (2021)
Run Time: 1:30:00
Producer: HLA Productions, Night Train Media, Salon Pictures
Director: Justin Stokes
Writer: Ray Battersby (based on the book 'Codeword Berlin'), Justin Stokes (story)
Key Cast: James G. Nunn, Alan Wai, Aliona Baranova
FILM MAKERS
Ten years in the making, the film is the work of director Justin Stokes a TV commercials director and school friend of the son of the main Suzuki man Jimmy Matsumiya, and producer Mike Wells. Missile from the East premiered on Sky Documentaries in the UK, and is now available on streaming in some countries. Premiering exactly sixty years after MZ racer Ernst Degner defected to the West this new drama documentary was a collaboration between HLA, Nighttrain Media and Salon Pictures the producers of 2018 doc McQueen on the late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
SUMMARY
Missile from the East follows the true story of Ernst Degner, a champion East German motorcycle racer who risked his and his family’s life to escape from behind the Iron Curtain, taking ground-breaking engine technology with him that helped Japanese manufacturer Suzuki win its first Grand Prix championship.
Trivia: An iconic MZ works 125cc GP bike designed by Walter Kaaden was used in some of the recreation shots - on loan from The Sammy Miller Museum.
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Watch the fULL FILM on TV+, Amazon and NOWTV.
The Vintagent Classics: Love, Loot, and Crash
https://vimeo.com/718787586
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
LOVE, LOOT, AND CRASH (1915)
Run Time: 11:00
Producer: Keystone Film Company
Director: Frank Griffin
Key Cast: Charley Chase (as Charles Parrot), Fountaine La Rue, Josef Swickard
FILM MAKERS
The early year pioneers of the motorcycle movie genre are found in short appearances of two wheeled vehicles, mostly in slapstick comedies of the silent era. Love, Loot, and Crash is one of these classics.
SUMMARY
Love, Loot and Crash is a single-reel film starring W.C. Hauber and Fritz Schade as a couple of ‘versatile crooks’. A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone cops and stir vigorously.
Dora and her father are at a loss in the kitchen (they have just fired their cook). Their advertisement for a new cook in a newspaper attracts two crooks (one of which is Fritz Schade). He dresses like a woman to apply for the job. At his first opportunity he plans to loot the house. Dora's suitor, Harold passes her a note through the window, saying to come when he whistles. She goes upstairs to pack a bundle of clothes.
A policeman calls at the kitchen door with a posy of flowers. The cook pours the cop a glass from a large jug. Father is suspicious when he hears Harold's whistle and goes to Dora's room.
Schade tricks the cop into the basement to get more drink and locks the trap-door. He pulls a heavy bit of furniture over the trap-door and picks up his bundle of stolen silverware to leave. He escapes through the window where Harold is expecting Dora to appear. As the crook has his head covered Harold thinks it is Dora and speeds off on his motorcycle with the crook riding pillion. Father helps the policeman escape but meanwhile Schade's accomplice has arrived outside the window in a car. He whistles and Dora comes out of the window. and gets in the back seat. Father grabs the back of the car as it speeds off.
The motorcycle crashes through various objects. Father pulls himself into the back of the car with his daughter. The Keystone Cops commandeer a second car and give chase. After a crash Dora and her father catch up with Harold and father then rides pillion giving chase to the two crooks who are now together in the first car. The car ends at a seaside boardwalk and the driver-less car spins round with the crooks on the bonnet before knocking two anglers into the sea. Harold and father fly off a ramp into the sea as Dora watches in shock. The second car arrives and the police get out. As the policeman peer into the sea the driver of the second car bumps them and everyone ends in the sea.
*Watch close for an appearance of Harold Lloyd (as the fruit vendor).
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The Vintagent Trailers: Taking Care Of Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6F18ry9pZc
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there.
DICK MANN, TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS (2021)
Run Time: 3 minutes 45 seconds
Producer: Media 66 Inc.
Presented by: Richmond Ramblers MC
Key Cast: Richmond Ramblers MC
FILM MAKERS
Media 66 Inc. is a video production company driven by passion.
SUMMARY
“My goal was never to be the best racer, but to finish ahead of them.”
Mann’s versatility is the stuff of legend, but perhaps the simple answer is that making a good living with a motorcycle required application of skill across many disciplines. Watch Dick Mann racing here.
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The Vintagent Trailers: Speed is Expensive
https://vimeo.com/713618987
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there.
SPEED IS EXPENSIVE: PHILIP VINCENT AND THE MILLION DOLLAR MOTORCYCLE (TBD)
Run Time: 1:53
Producer: Gerry Jenkinson, James Salter, Russel Icke, Peter Grimsdale
Director: David Lancaster
Key Cast: John Surtees, Jay Leno, Paul Simonon, Ewan McGregor
FILM MAKERS
"Pure hell on the straightaway - It'll outrun the F1-11 until take-off" - Hunter S Thompson on the Vincent motorcycle
Speed is Expensive brings to the screen one of the most dramatic stories in automotive history – the rise and the fall of the Vincent motorcycle. These fast, revolutionary machines were produced by eccentric engineer Philip Vincent and his small team in war-ravaged England. Their bikes took on the world – and often won – gaining more speed records than any other manufacturer during their brief production. In 1955, the firm claimed the ultimate prize: the outright world speed record of 185mph… Yet, just months later, the company pulled out of the motorcycle market. The bikes’ creator, Philip Vincent, never designed another vehicle which would go into production. He died in 1979 – the family fortune exhausted pursuing his obsession with speed. Today, high-profile riders such as Brad Pitt, Ryan Reynolds and Jay Leno revere the bikes. Racing models fetch $1 million at auctions and in private sales.
The Film will premier at the Barnes Film Festival in London on June 17, 2022.
SUMMARY
But Speed is Expensive is more than the story of automotive endeavour. It is also a detective story. The film talks to the men and women who built the bikes; racers, friends and family to learn how Vincent, Phil Irving and his workforce built such revolutionary motorcycles and the secrets behind the bikes’ amazing performance. The film reveals how the fate of the company turned on a high-speed accident on a wind-swept airfield near the factory in the winter of 1947.
This journey of augmented by a rich colour and black and white archive of high-quality film footage shot by Vincent himself, shared by his family, showing his private and professional life from the 1930s onwards. Today, Philip Vincent is seen as nothing short of a genius… the man whose frame designs the Japanese would borrow years later; whose Black Shadow model remained the fastest motorcycle the public could buy right up until the early 1970s. Now, the full story of the pioneer who changed motorcycling forever can be told.
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The Vintagent Trailers: Caselli 66: Ride The Dream
https://vimeo.com/92981696?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=2381707
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there.
CASELLI 66: RIDE THE DREAM (2014)
Run Time: 0:32:00
Producer: Tyler Wales
A Film By: Wiley Watson
Writer: Wiley Watson
Key Cast: Timmy Weigand, Jeremy Mcgrath, Kurt Caselli
FILM MAKERS
Wiley is an award winning film director and editor based in the Pacific Northwest. From feature films, commercials, & serialized web-show content, Wiley’s skillset and creative eye are drawn from over a decade of experience in the digital media world. An avid creator and innovator , Wiley obsess’s the details to capture cunning imagery alongside powerful storytelling.
He is currently available for hire on new projects.
SUMMARY
On November 15th, 2013 the world lost Kurt Caselli to the Baja 1000. The shock was immediate and powerful. A once in a generation offroad racer, Kurt's performance on his motorcycle was matched only by the dedication, passion, and love that inspired an era of racers, riders, family, and friends. Red Tide Pictures is proud to present Caselli 66. This is the story of Kurt and his legacy that lives on. Ride the dream.
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RENT/BUY THE FILM. A portion of the proceeds will go directly to the Kurt Caselli Foundation.
The Vintagent Selects: Love, Speed and Loss
https://youtu.be/bc87ZFWZihw
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
LOVE, SPEED AND LOSS (2005)
Run Time: 1:17:00
Producer: NZ On Air & TV3
Director: Justin Pemberton
Editor: Bryan Shaw
Key Cast: Janeen Newcombe, Phil Read, Chas Mortimer
FILM MAKERS
"I recommend it. Kim Newcombe was a man after my own heart. He lived in New Zealand, saw an interesting engine in a boat, thought it’d work in a motorbike, he moved to Germany with his missus to meet the designer, met him, built a bike with this engine in it, started racing it, won a world championship race, beat Agostini. Kim Newcombe, legend. A man with a plan" - Road Racer and Isle of Man TT star Guy Martin
Love, Speed and Loss was nominated at three prestigious film festivals, including the Auckland Film Festival 2005.
SUMMARY
...here's an interesting motorcycle folks. It's got an engine which is an outboard motor for boats, and somebody's cleverly stuck a gearbox on it, and it's very small and very light...
It's 1973 and young New Zealand couple Kim and Janeen have run away to Europe and joined the circus - the Continental Circus. They're part of a convoy of Grand Prix motorcycle riders travelling across Western and Eastern Europe competing for the World Championship Road Racing title.
Love, Speed and Loss is a love story set against the backdrop of 1970s Grand Prix racing. Kim Newcombe and his childhood sweetheart wife, Janeen, arrived in Berlin in 1969. Kim had a job working as an engineer for the Konig outboard marine company. Within a year he'd taken the outboard engine and turned it into a lightning-fast road racing motorbike that led the world championship. And so the couple's European adventure began ...
On route to Europe Janeen bought a Super8 camera in Hong Kong and started documenting the couple's new life. Love, Speed and Loss opens with Janeen watching the footage of her and Kim - young, in love and idealistic. The documentary moves between the 1970s and the present day as it reveals the couple's story, building toward the tragic event that saw Janeen's life change dramatically.
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Watch The FULL FILM in 4 PARTS for FREE at NZ ON Screen.
Buy the DVD / Download - A donation from the proceeds will be made to Riders For Health.
The Vintagent Classics: If You're in it, you're in it to the limit - Bikies
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
IF YOU'RE IN IT, YOU'RE IN IT TO THE LIMIT - BIKIES (TV 1972)
Run Time: 27:31
Producer: Michael Scott-Smith
Director: John Charles
Cinematographer: Peter Janes
Key Cast: Hell's Angels, Auckland
FILM MAKERS
This film was banned upon release. Forgotten about until 2012, when it was added to the NZ On Screen website. No doubt it was seen as promoting a lifestyle that sent shivers up the spines and down the walk-shorted pants of the old men who used to run the country. It's a brilliant depiction of life in the Auckland chapter of the Hell's Angels. It's not just of anthropological interest, it's also a terrific depository of Triumph motorbikes and Nazi memorabilia.
The title, If You're In It, You're In It To The Limit might also apply to the guys who made the film. Producer Michael Scott Smith, a Brit who went to drama school with Peter O'Toole, went on to make such classics as Close to Home and The Governor. The director John Charles was better known as a composer, responsible for the music in some our best films, like Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth.
Meanwhile, editor Jamie Selkirk has found great fame as Peter Jackson's cutter, working on Braindead, The Frighteners, King Kong, Lord of The Rings and as an executive producer, Forgotten Silver, LOTR, Predicament. - NZ Herald
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SUMMARY
The way I look at it: some people join the army, some people join the Salvation Army, some people join bowling clubs, some people join tennis clubs ... I join the Hells Angels.
This notorious film looks at '70s bikie culture, focusing on Auckland's Hells Angels (the first Angels chapter outside of California). These not-so-easy riders — with sideburns and swastikas and fueled by pies and beer — rev up the Triumphs, defend the creed, beat up students, cruise on the Interislander, provoke civic censure, and attend the Hastings Blossom Festival. After a funeral, Aotearoa's sons of anarchy head back on the highway. Bikies was banned by the NZBC — possibly due to the public urination, lane-crossing, chauvinism and pig's head activity. - NZ On Screen
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Watch PART 2 HERE.
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The Vintagent Selects: Finding... The Electric Chair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMJ87rPj2uo
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
FINDING... THE ELECTRIC CHAIR (2022)
Run Time: 4:22
Producer: DicE Magazine
A Film by: Scott Toepfer
Key Cast: Jerry Burger, Joey Yeaman
FILM MAKERS
My path towards being a creative professional started as I abandoned my career in microbiology to pursue still photography full-time. I’ve never looked back, and have been able to travel the world with a crew that has become as close as family, shooting campaigns and commercials for some of the largest clients in advertising. I try to take a narrative approach towards almost every shoot by finding the thread that pulls the images or the films together for the viewer. - Scott Toepfer
SUMMARY
The word legendary is thrown around way too casually these days. From your mate Bernies legendary lasagne to that legendary night you won $78 and saw Flava Flav in Vegas (that actually happened to me).
What is truly legendary is this ‘39 Indian 4 built by Mike Fitzgerald in the 60’s which featured on the cover of the June 1969 “Choppers Magazine'“ only to go missing the next year & considered lost forever...
Lost for over 50 years until recently discovered under a dust sheet in Northern California.
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The Vintagent Classics: Motorcyklisten
https://vimeo.com/692271725
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
Motorcyklisten (1908) aka The Non-Stop Motorcycle (English)
Run Time: 3:35
Producer: Nordisk Films Kompagni
Director: Viggo Larson
Director Of Photography: Axel Sørensen
Key Cast: Knud Lumbye, Petrine Sonne, Frederik Buch
FILM MAKERS
From dogsleds in Copenhagen to spaceships bound for Mars. Discover the golden age of Danish silent films at stumfilm.dk. From around 1910, the Danish film industry was a world leader, both commercially and artistically, with Nordisk Films Kompagni (now Nordisk Film) at the forefront. Stars like Asta Nielsen, Valdemar Psilander and Fy & Bi were famous way beyond their home country, and Denmark’s greatest film director, Carl Th. Dreyer, was prolific during this period as well. Now the Danish Film Institute has launched stumfilm.dk (Danish Silent Film), where everyone can follow the digitisation of more than 400 works from the 1897–1928 period. As the films are digitised, they will be streamed on the site, accompanied by posters, photos, thematic articles, scripts and contemporary reviews.
Running over the next four years, this film-archaeological project will be both wide-ranging and unpredictable. Some of the old reels have not been viewed since the 1920s, but creating their path to stumfilm.dk also means that we are building the infrastructure continuously until the end of 2023.
We will contextualize the films in thematic collections, which highlight the fascinating, mysterious, awesome, sexy and funny stories hiding in the archive. Whether you are a researcher, enthusiast or just curious, you can dive into the early star culture, get an insight into the digitization process, or just browse your way through the cornucopia of cinematographic treasures.
Stumfilm.dk is the biggest film-dissemination effort ever in Denmark. A three-year Danish-German research project affiliated with the digitisation effort will map the cross-border traffic of ideas and people between two leading nations of the silent film era, Denmark and Germany.
The project is made possible by a donation of DKK 30 million from the A.P. Møller Foundation, the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation and the Augustinus Foundation. - Danish Silent Film
SUMMARY
A 4-minute, full-speed chase extravaganza through Copenhagen. Vroom-Vroom!
A young man, crazy about motorcycles, buys an Ellehammer and drives it out of the store at wild speed. During his unruly driving, he knocks over several people, all of whom set out to chase him.
This short film is a popular and time-typical example of the so-called “pursuit farce”, or “running farce”, as the genre was called by the film’s director Viggo Larsen. The action in a pursuit farce is sorely simple: under some pretext, a person is pursued over hedge and ditch, typically by more and more people. The genre demonstrates the new media’s unique ability to show movement. - Danish Silent Film
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Watch the FULL FILM in the collection of Danish Silent Film at the Danish Film Institute
The Vintagent Trailers: Dust 2 Glory
https://vimeo.com/687291930
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there.
Dust 2 Glory (2017)
Run Time: 1:38:00
Director: Dana Brown
Writer: Dana Brown
Key Cast: Dana Brown, Carlin Dunne, Robby Gordon
FILM MAKERS
Dana Brown is an American surfer and filmmaker, and is the oldest son of filmmaker Bruce Brown, Director of On Any Sunday (1971). His films include The Endless Summer Revisited (2000) which is made up of unused footage from The Endless Summer (1964) and The Endless Summer II (1994), as well as some original interviews with the stars of those films. His first all-original film was Step Into Liquid (2003) followed by a documentary on the Baja 1000 titled Dust to Glory (2005). In 2009, he debuted a new film called Highwater during the 100th anniversary of the Santa Monica Pier; the film follows life on the North Shore and the surfers who compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. In 2014, the movie On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter continues the saga of motocross documentaries which began with the 1972 Academy Award for Documentary Feature nominated film On Any Sunday (1971).
SUMMARY
Dana Brown Films, in association with SCORE International and BCII, is proud to announce this new feature documentary film, which is a follow up to Dust To Glory (2005), about the legendary SCORE Baja 1000. This 18-month project, written and directed by this country's foremost action sports documentary superstar, will be the most in-depth and dramatic exploration of the world's toughest point-to-point desert race ever created. This is Dust 2 Glory.
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Watch the FULL FILM online at Amazon.
The Vintagent Selects: Chasing 200
https://vimeo.com/639892736
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
CHASING 200 (2021)
Run Time: 5:58
A Film By: Alexandra Lier
Director of Photography: John Orphan
Key Cast: Alp Sungurtekin, Jalika Gaskin
FILM MAKERS
Alexandra Lier is a German visual artist and filmmaker. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany. At a young age she developed an interest in Hotwheels, old cars, motorcycles, comics and rock music. As teenager she was member of the all girl Punk band Twiggy Killers, that hit the German and European scene.
Alexandra received her art, film and photography degree at the Frankfurt Academy of Visual Arts. Upon graduation, Lier worked as a award winning creative. After winning more than 40 advertising awards, she pursued her interest in arts. She started to combine her interest in underground subculture and storytelling. Over the last decade, she built a substantial reputation in fine art photography & film.
SUMMARY
Alp and Jalika, a motorcycle nerd and a supermodel decide to become a motorcycle team and set a previously impossible record with classic Triumph motorcycles and nitro power. A short documentary about love, freedom, passion, and teamwork.
Alp Racing & Design was founded by Alp Sungurtekin in 2001 in Los Angeles California. Jalika Gaskin joined Alp in 2007 and became the Crew Chief when we started racing in August 2011 at Bonneville Speedweek. Alp has a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design and specializes in Transportation Design. He is currently a Southern California Timing Association and Bonneville Nationals INC. "SCTA-BNI" Motorcycle tech inspector and a member of the MILERS Racing Club.
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The Vintagent Original: Vincent Black Lightning
https://vimeo.com/691012843
The Vintagent Originals: Stories We Need to Tell
VINCENT BLACK LIGHTNING (2022)
Run Time: 5:55
Director: David Martinez
Editor: Anais Bernard
Key Cast: Paul d'Orléans, 1950 Vincent Black Lightning courtesy Bryan Bossier / Sinless Cycles
FILM MAKERS
From David Martinez Studio: "My love of storytelling started when I was teenager photographing the San Francisco punk scene. What drew me to photography then is what I still love about it now - the endless ways you can use images to tell a story. What began as a solitary journey has evolved into a highly collaborative process - an integral part of my photography that I really love. I'm always humbled by how many people and places contribute to one single frame.
SUMMARY
The Vincent Black Lightning is simply legendary. It was the 'World's Fastest Standard Motorcycle' for over 25 years, after Rollie Free rode the prototype on the Bonneville Salt Flats at just over 150mph - in his bathing suit! As you could order a Black Lightning with full road equipment - as with this 1950 example - that claim was fully justified.
Vintagent founder Paul d'Orléans road tests this historic machine, discusses its history, and discusses why the Black Lightning deserves its reputation in song and story. The Lightning in our film is one of only 38 built by the factory, with a great back story: a Scandinavian racing champion ordered it new, but it only raced twice before he stored it in a chicken coop! It was pulled out once more for a grudge match against some BMW racers, which it won. It was purchased by an engineer who packed it away for decades, before it was reassembled by an expert with all original parts, and is now in amazing condition.
'Vincent Black Lightning' was filmed in San Francisco and west Marin County by David Martinez, who captures the beauty of the place and the motorcycle, and just as importantly the SOUND of this stirring vehicle. Dig it!
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https://thevintagent.com/2020/10/20/the-vintagent-original-baja-scrambler/
https://thevintagent.com/2020/10/26/the-vintagent-original-silver-shotgun/
https://thevintagent.com/2017/10/29/the-vintagent-original-wheel-and-waves/
https://thevintagent.com/2017/08/13/the-vintagent-original-model-x/
https://thevintagent.com/2017/06/10/the-vintagent-original-the-ended-summer/
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The Vintagent Trailers: Dust To Glory
https://vimeo.com/687275335
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there.
DUST TO GLORY (2005)
Run Time: 1:37:00
Director: Dana Brown
Key Cast: Chad McQueen, Mario Andretti, Sal Fish
FILM MAKERS
Dana Brown is an American surfer and filmmaker, and is the oldest son of filmmaker Bruce Brown, Director of On Any Sunday (1971). His films include The Endless Summer Revisited (2000) which is made up of unused footage from The Endless Summer (1964) and The Endless Summer II (1994), as well as some original interviews with the stars of those films. His first all-original film was Step Into Liquid (2003) followed by a documentary on the Baja 1000 titled Dust to Glory (2005). In 2009, he debuted a new film called Highwater during the 100th anniversary of the Santa Monica Pier; the film follows life on the North Shore and the surfers who compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. In 2014, the movie On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter continues the saga of motocross documentaries which began with the 1972 Academy Award for Documentary Feature nominated film On Any Sunday (1971).
SUMMARY
An action-adventure documentary chronicling the most notorious and dangerous race in the world--the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. Rivaling the Indy 500 and 25 Hours of Daytona, the race across Baja's peninsula is unpredictable, grueling and raw--just like the uncharted American West of yesteryear. To capture the vast desert panoramas and intense action of the race, the film team utilized, fifty-five cameras, four helicopters, a four-passenger buggy camera car and a crew of over eighty people. Thousands of participants, generations of families and racing icons such as Robby Gordon, Mario Andretti, Jimmy Vasser and Motorcycle Supercross legend Mike Mouse McCoy joined together to experience the thrill and glory of the infamous race--an event of sheer human determination. - IMDB
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Watch the full film on AMAZON
The Vintagent Original: ADV Overland Exhibit
https://vimeo.com/685588453
The Vintagent Original: Stories We Need to Tell.
ADV OVERLAND EXHIBIT (2022)
Run Time: 7:13
Producer: Motor/Cycle Arts Foundation
Director: David Martinez
Editor: Anaïs Bernard
Key Cast: Paul d'Orléans
FILM MAKERS
For David Martinez, photography is both a calculated science and a free verse art form. The controllable variables – the light, the shutter speed, the aperture – are all simply tools to allow the authenticity of a real moment to occur. David captures the beauty and sincerity of these scenes in the pictures he makes. Always at the forefront of technology (but still with a roll of medium format film in his camera bag), David has been shooting high definition video since DSLR technology made it more available. David is always ready for an adventure – with his surf bag packed and camera in hand.
SUMMARY
The ADV:Overland exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, July 2021 – April 2022. Subtitled ‘off-road to off-world’, ADV:Overland includes round-the-world and long-distance racing machinery from 1903 to the present, plus sci-fi and NASA overland explorers. The real-world adventure machines show dirt and scars from outrageous journeys, some even with their original bags, boxes, and tools in place, 90 years later. ADV:Overland showcases the living, breathing history of overland travel, and its counterparts in outer space.
In the beginning, every motor trip was an adventure, and every motorist a mechanic. Some heard a different call, seeking adventure in overland travel to far-distant places. In 1903, crossing the USA on wheels had never been done, but that changed when George Wymans rode a California motorcycle for 50 days from San Francisco to New York. In 1912, nobody had circled the globe on a motorcycle, but that changed when Carl Stearns Clancy straddled his Henderson Four and headed east. In the next 100 years, brave men and women struck out to see the world on wheels, making epic journeys recorded in books, films, and television. Folks more technically-oriented imagined travel off-world, on the Moon or Mars or beyond, in science fiction and actual space programs.
Exhibition curator and Motorcycle Arts Foundation co-founder Paul d’Orleans explains: “ADV:Overland celebrates the spirit of adventure. These remarkable machines tell a human story, of dreamers and reckless youth, stubborn visionaries and dogged competitors, all together in one place. It also includes the ultimate overland dream of surface exploration on other worlds, which is happening on Mars right now – and we have some of the NASA/JPL rovers. We told lenders not to wash their overland veterans: we wanted to show good honest dirt as proof of their rough duty.”
The contrast between the extremely simple overland machinery from the early 20th century to Charley Boorman’s electric LiveWire from Long Way Up is great, but the journey still had to be made on wheels. “The genesis of overland travel can be seen in the early bikes, like the 1912 Henderson Four that Carl Clancy rode around the world. These rudimentary machines captured the public’s imagination and fueled overland travel and competition we see today, like the Baja and Dakar rallies, and films like Long Way Up,” added MAF co-Founder Sasha Tcherekoff.
If 100-year old dirt-covered bikes don’t inspire you, then come to ADV: Overland for the far-out space exhibits. Two sci-fi overlanders from the Lost In Space series, including the spectacular 1960s tracked glass house, keep company with a futuristic 3-D printed electric “Lunar motorcycle” from Hookie.co. For an inspiring comparison between real and imaginary off-world overlanding, NASA/JPL loaned two actual Mars rovers – models of Opportunity and Sojourner – that have logged more miles on other worlds than any other vehicle.
Also on display is Charley Boorman’s electric LiveWire customized by Harley-Davidson for the Long Way Up television series. The Motor Company is also a sponsor of ADV: Overland in support of the 2021 launch of the Harley-Davidson Pan America. The Pan America marks Milwaukee’s first-ever adventure-touring motorcycle meant to compete in the growing ADV motorcycle space
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The Vintagent Classics: Girl Shy
https://vimeo.com/683080515
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
GIRL SHY (1924)
Run Time: 1:27:00
Producer: The Harold Lloyd Corporation
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Writer: Sam Taylor, Ted Wilde, Tim Whelan
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels
FILM MAKERS
This was Lloyd's first independent production after his split with Hal Roach. It is what Lloyd called a "character story" (as opposed to a "gag film"), and is notable for containing fewer of the stunts which characterize Lloyd's other films throughout most of its length, and instead focusing more on the relationship between Lloyd and Ralston. However, the lengthy finale of the film is one of the most exhilarating, non-stop action sequences of Lloyd's career.
It was also the second of six consecutive movies pairing Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston, who left Hal Roach Studios as well to continue working with Lloyd. Unlike the normal style for filmed romances prior to Girl Shy, both Ralston and Lloyd were featured in comedic scenes. - wikipedia
SUMMARY
Harold Meadows (Lloyd) is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guide book for other bashful young men, "The Secret of Making Love," chapters from which are portrayed as fantasy sequences. Fate has him meet rich girl, Mary (Ralston), and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding. - IMDB
*The Police Motorcycle which Lloyd steals is clearly a second prop bike on a trailer when Harold rides it. It is a stunt double riding for Lloyd in the cut away scenes.
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Watch the FULL FILM
Read also: The Silent Types
The Vintagent Selects: The Outcasts
https://vimeo.com/680274966
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
40 MINUTES: THE OUTCASTS (BBC TV 1985)
Run Time: 40:00
Producer: BBC
Photography: John Howarth
Key Cast: The Outcasts MC
FILM MAKERS
"Following in the wonderful spirit of the legendary Cane Toads comes this documentary detailing the life and grime of a motorcycle gang from East Anglia calling themselves The Outcasts. Made by the BBC as a one-off TV programme in 1985, it is undoubtedly one of the finest, most insane things I have ever had the pleasure of watching... this is not something that is available on DVD." Read more at BadMovies.org
SUMMARY
I (Corinna, The Vintagent's Curator of Film) am pretty sure the review of this documentary on BadMovies.org is one of the greatest things I've ever read, and so I'm simply directing you, dear readers straight to the source for character and plot outline, obsessive screenshots, things to watch for, as well as:
Things I Learned From This Movie:
- When a woman wants to state her intentions, she will smear carburetor fluid on her thighs.
- Embalmers are indecisive creatures.
- Torn leather pouches from rubbish bins are surprisingly expensive to buy.
- When creating a gang outside of society, make sure the rules are incomparably harsher.
- Be wary of any pub containing weight lifting equipment.
PLEASE read the full review and additional commentary on this film directly at the source that gave it 4 out of 5 slimes. - BadMovies.org
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The Vintagent Classics: The Damned
https://vimeo.com/678713745
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
THE DAMNED (1963) aka THESE ARE THE DAMNED
Run Time: 1:27:00
Producer: Hammer Film
Director: Joseph Losey
Key Cast: Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Oliver Reed
FILM MAKERS
The Damned (released as These Are the Damned in the United States) is a British science fiction horror film, and a delightful bit of Cold War cynicism, following a small group of radioactive children being raised by the British government to repopulate a future post-nuclear Earth. based on H.L. Lawrence's 1960 novel The Children of Light.
Note: The English Punk Gothic band, The Damned took their name from the film.
SUMMARY
An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
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H.L. Lawrence The Children of Light.
The Vintagent Classics: O Dreamland
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
O DREAMLAND (1953)
Run Time: 12:14
A Film By: Lindsay Anderson
FILM MAKERS
O Dreamland is a 1953 documentary short film by British film director Lindsay Anderson.
The documentary was made in 1953 by Anderson and his cameraman/assistant, John Fletcher, using a single 16mm camera and an audiotape recorder. Once completed, the film was initially shelved, with Anderson commenting, "you don't do anything with a 10-minute, 16-millimetre film. It's just there, that's all." In 1956 however, he was inspired to include it as part of the first Free Cinema programme.
The black-and-white film is a 12-minute exploration of the Dreamland amusement park in Margate, Kent and has no voiced commentary but a soundtrack of sounds recorded on site and music.
Gavin Lambert, a key supporter of the Free Cinema movement, said of the film "Everything is ugly... It is almost too much. The nightmare is redeemed by the point of view, which, for all the unsparing candid camerawork and the harsh, inelegant photography, is emphatically humane. Pity, sadness, even poetry is infused into this drearily tawdry, aimlessly hungry world."
SUMMARY
It is 1953. Members of the working class rush off to Dreamland Amusement Park in the English coastal town of Margate, where they gape at a show featuring torture devices, a lion pacing back and forth in a undersized cage, a ventriloquist's dummy dominating the scene with his sinister chuckle, and a dwarf praises his wares: "The dreams I dream are yours to see. Over there in reality." Director Lindsay Anderson interviews nobody, but uses his 16mm camera to record the entertainment and the people who are drawn to it, often in close-up. He records the visitors' facial expressions, kids eating sweets, and bored bottoms on barstools. The result is an impressionistic portrait of vapid entertainment, enhanced by a soundtrack that consists of the booming sounds of the amusement park and the constant, hollow cackle. Anderson released O Dreamland in 1956 as one of the first products of the Free Cinema movement, founded by Anderson and other filmmakers to free themselves from the strict rules of the documentary genre.
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This film is included in The Vintagent Film Archive because of the Wall Of Death scene (George Todd's Wall), because we collect everything W.O.D!
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