Vintage Movies Of Jalopy Races With Elevator Muzak Are Oddly Soothing

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These movies seem to have been digitized to promote a company's 8mm to digital transfer services, but they're pretty engaging on their own. The use of elevator-music background tracks with the chaos of mid-century dirt track racing is at first disconcerting, and then gets strangely soothing.

Have a cranky toddler? I bet these would be just the thing to lull the little kook into a nice, confusing sleep.