When glamour was, indeed, glamour.

Monaco was so charming then. No high rise buildings. Spectators standing on the sidewalks, just a few feet from the racers. I think I even saw a fishing boat in the harbor. The cars look so slow. But they were going through the hairpin faster than the current cars!

@thompsongl

10 ай бұрын

the yachts also got bigger !

@brandonbentley5453

9 ай бұрын

I've never been but it's amazing the racing circuit route for the most part hasn't changed...

the city looked so much more authentic and charmic back then. Love it. Thank you for sharing.

@adambane1719

10 ай бұрын

*charming

Now this is a good film! I like the narration style. The various filming locations is great! The 1950's F-1 racing era and cars had famous history.

@mortimersnerd8044

10 ай бұрын

The colorization is so poorly done, the Mercedes trucks were light blue, the Maserati transports were bright red. This is easy stuff to research if you're going to colour in a B&W film. So sad to see historic film being vandalized just to make it look pretty to ignorant hipsters.

@fargeeks

10 ай бұрын

Where F1s were front engined Gotta give credit F1 /grand prix cars NEVER EVER had headlights of any kind

@johnreitz5676

9 ай бұрын

​@@mortimersnerd8044 No one cares old timer.

@mortimersnerd8044

9 ай бұрын

@@johnreitz5676 , love the pride you take in your own ignorance 🐮

No hi rise, the old station still there, cars that could actually pass one another on that track, quality, not the money grabbing style of Liberty today, priceless.

@KitKitChanIsaac

9 күн бұрын

Real race cars which require actual driver input, unlike the oversízed sim rigs on wheels of today.

Great Lancias. Stirling crash looked bad. Merc transporter wonderful. Great footage. Great cars. Great drivers. Great venue. Sunshine.

You can just hear the effect of the non-filtered Lucky Strikes on the commentator’s voice

I’m sure life wasn’t really much better then but those videos sure make it look a lot better than today

@robwilde855

10 ай бұрын

It bloody well was! I was six years old when this race was run. Since then unimportant things have been improved, and shouted about, with the unthinking masses taken in by it all; and the really important things have been thrown away, carelessly and with great cowardice.

@skyedog24

10 ай бұрын

@@robwilde855 very well said I couldn't agree with you more.

@ERTChimpanzee

10 ай бұрын

@@robwilde855 No seatbelts in 1955. Seatbelts became popular in the late 60's. Safety has improved a lot.

@robwilde855

10 ай бұрын

@@ERTChimpanzee I understand, with great respect, where you're coming from, and ninety-nine percent of the population would agree with your feelings. "Safety has improved a lot" can only be a good thing, surely - a no-brainer? But to me, and that remaining one percent, that sentence actually encapsulates the problem, and it is part of the reason why the general quality of life is going down. Statistics, which can only be applied to a very large number of instances over a period of time, have been taken to be relevant to a person's immediate experience, and furthermore have been legislated into people's lives. To us this is all wrong. A person can decide for themselves whether they are prepared to accept whatever risk is involved in whatever they intend to do. It should be their decision, and no one else's - certainly not the government's. A government can advise but should not take over anyone's personal decisions. One should have the choice whether or not to wear a seatbelt. Most folk would. And they'd feel much better about their decision, because it was THEIR decision, than people feel now strapping on their belts because they might be fined if they don't. Any power or potential given away to authority is a bad thing, and can only - and does - lead to worse.

@ronfox5519

9 ай бұрын

​@ERTChimpanzee Yes safety has improved in so many ways, and it is a good thing. That said, the guys did drive a lot more aggressively as safety features were added, and a lot of beauty was lost in the process. A net gain, but nothing is free.

Hans Herrmann is still alive as of today. His place of birth still listed as "Weimar Republic"

@Loulovesspeed

11 ай бұрын

@klingonradar - I have a beautiful 1:18 diecast model of his Mercedes W196 Streamliner. It is a numbered edition signed by him across the hood. A beautiful racing machine! The model is made by CMC Models of Fellbach, Germany.

@musicstewart9744

10 ай бұрын

Real interesting life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Herrmann

great footage, no cheese just excellent commentating and camera work, more please

@ronfox5519

9 ай бұрын

Yes. Very well done.

Wonderful footage. Very glad that vintage motorsport film keeps turning up on YT. I'd never heard of Bella Darvi. Quite a life, per wiki. Ended sadly and early, as did too many of the drivers' lives during this era. A glamorous life was real, I guess, if that person enjoyed the glamorous part. Now it's an illusion at sunny Monte Carlo, with the commentator alluding to Darvi's doggy running amuck at an earlier racing event. Too bad no film of the loose pooch.

A week later Ascari was killed testing at Monza.😢😢

Golden age

Nothing left to do but fish for Ascari’s car! Commentator has wit.

These days are gone. Looking back the days of Ecclestone were the last good F1 years. Now it's being turned into a money grab circus.

I had to look up Bella Darvi. It's a sad story. She was a Polish Jew whose family moved to France. During the war, her brother died in a concentration camp. She was imprisoned by the Vichy government but later released and moved to the south of France. After the war she was befriended by the Mr and Mrs Derryl Zanuck and moved to Los Angeles where she began an acting career. She was suicidal and eventually killed herself in Monte Carlo in 1971,

Glorious cars

Love the Lancia Aurelia B24 Spider Prince Rainier was driving.

@carlobrotto7132

7 ай бұрын

You've got excellent taste, mythic car, I love it too

Fangio, Ascari what times!! 😮

Dans son livre, Trintignant dit qu'à la fin de la course il avait le creux de la main en sang tellement il fallait changer de vitesse.

Jay Leno has one of those Mercedes Benz racecar haulers.

Ah, so beautiful

Padrisimos recuerdos!!👏👏

Now that was an era of class and chic, not a world of sports car chasers with mobiles and tiktokers, check out the way women and men dressed

Commentator is likely American as I think Americans, at least in the 1950s, pronounced it Mo-'naco rather than the correct pronunciation of 'Mon-aco. You don't want to know how we pronounced Le Mans! Lol Fantastic footage here, just too bad the audio of the time lacked the ability to capture a more true sound of these fantastic race engines, particularly the Mercedes W196 - as the commentator pointed out!

@CorCor-mq8vm

11 ай бұрын

Lemons

@Loulovesspeed

11 ай бұрын

@@CorCor-mq8vm - Pretty close! I think many Americans used to have a tough time with the French language, as well as the French themselves at times! Lol

@maxmulsanne7054

10 ай бұрын

​@@CorCor-mq8vm Yes we have that too. The prestigious _'24 Hours of Lemons'_ - where $500 cars compete for the glory of victory.

I am very confused: at min 5:06 they comment on the arrival of Prince Ranieri "accompanied by the sounding of the anthem of Monaco", but what we can hear is clearly Fratelli d'Italia, the Italian national anthem...

@DanArnets1492

20 күн бұрын

Most/All sound was recorded after the fact, engine sounds are mostly fake

The money there in that one little patch of Earth is astounding!

"Dumped him into the bay." Of course, given the callousness of the post- war era, not a word about whether the former leader was presently floating face down in that bay, headed to the hospital maimed for life, or having a shaky scotch-and-soda back in the pits.

68 years ago.

4:58 It's the national anthem of Italy not Monaco.

@adambane1719

10 ай бұрын

No its Monaco !!!!

@wraitheful

10 ай бұрын

@@adambane1719you mean M’naco?

@4Kandlez

10 ай бұрын

@@adambane1719 You are wrong

@carlobrotto7132

7 ай бұрын

It's the Italian anthem .

The Yankee Hudson's were not there, that year, mes amis.

The all very first french pilot victory in Formula one.

Who the hell is Bella Darvi? I've been following F1 since the '50's and I've never heard of her. P. S. It's interesting to see Monaco without all the high-rises!

@Hithere-ek4qt

10 ай бұрын

She was an aspiring actress, probably trying to sleep her way to the top. I believe she was Darrell Zannuks project. She had a bit of success with second rate movies in Europe and America. Must’ve had a sad life though, after a few attempts at suicide she finally was successful in Monaco in 1971

@Hithere-ek4qt

10 ай бұрын

The filmmaker was probably pressured into having some footage of her for publicity

Even those days it was rather silly to have an F1 race in that city.

5:00 "The arrival of the prince is accompanied by playing the national anthem of Monaco" *Plays Italian National Anthem*

Type of car that should only race at Monaco...F1 outgrew that place decades ago!

@LRSNRCNG309

10 ай бұрын

They outgrew monaco even in this time 😂

...and I remember Pietro Lonetti too...

Talk about racing dangerous cars……throwing caution in the wind……they were very brave and dedicated drivers.

@terryjacob8169

9 ай бұрын

Proper racing drivers, proper men. So unlike today's overpaid prima donnas.

I can't see any race, i drive that way everyday in my daily way to work.

@adambane1719

10 ай бұрын

Uh, tough guy, huh !? Why don't you take a long walk off a short pier, pal !?

@leejcobb8009

10 ай бұрын

@@adambane1719 Said the little girly man 🧚 Trolling on his Mommy's computer! 😆😅😂🤣

Someone needs to AI upscale this. Just make sure it doesn't add roll hoops, full-face helmets, fire suits, and seat belts with its risk-averse imagination. They don't look that fast, but they were essentially 4 wheel motor bikes with all the associated lack of safety. The drivers actually refused safety harnesses because they preferred to be thrown free rather than trapped in the car. but when speeds increased in future years............

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1:15 Not many Millionaires around in those days.

1955 - Onassis the Ship Builder. Put a pin in that will you please?

Terrific race back then, disappointing today, no passing. Perhaps this event will get pulled from the current points chase.

A week later Ascari was killed testing at Monza.. Ah, so beautiful.

Bruce brown vibes

Others fall into the mediterranean

Mrs. Fangio?????

odd pronunciation of Monaco.

@Loulovesspeed

9 ай бұрын

@johnandrews3568 - Just a typical American mispronunciation of the name. You should hear how they tried to pronounce Le Mans then.

I’m going to start pronouncing Monaco this way now

Men-knock-o

Straw bales, cigarettes, and a white T-shirt for a racing suit!

How lovely to see a European country .......... full of Europeans?

Monaco much nicer back then when rich people had some class.

That’s some waist on Bella Darvi😃

Was this the last race won by Ferrari?

@daz4627

10 ай бұрын

OUCH!!!!

@carlobrotto7132

7 ай бұрын

Nope, the last was when Ferrari still had an inch of Italian ability inside its racing team and was not all upon foreign crap, which was way before an austrian energetic drink managed to get into F1 and to acquire former engineers & mechanics from Ferrari ...!

Shumacher won !!!!

@Loulovesspeed

9 ай бұрын

Not hardly as he wasn't even born for another 14 years! LOL

@KitKitChanIsaac

9 күн бұрын

Bro won before he was born💀

Spectacular footage; unbearable commentary. “M’naco”? Really?

Like ALL CLASSIC F1 TRACKS .... MONACO has been butchered !!!

The harbor looks much different today with all the multi-million dollar yachts anchored. 🛳️

@adambane1719

10 ай бұрын

Did you not see all the multi-million dollar yachts anchored there in this video? ...or do you just choose to be offended anyways?? I'm genuinely curious.

@chancevonfreund9145

10 ай бұрын

@@adambane1719 What? Holly cow who said im offended! There is a heck of a lot more Multi-million Yachts today than back then! Take your Prozac and Stop trolling.

@vancestalworth5652

10 ай бұрын

​@@adambane1719 Did your Transition surgery fail! Troll 😆😅😂