Old Quicktime files need a converter!!

Hi all,
Just picked up an awesome digital re-issue of Blue Train by John Coltrane and the disk has a heap of live footage and interviews with the man himself and his contemporaries. Problem is, it comes with Quicktime 2.5 (cast your minds back people) and all the video is encoded as such. I've tried installing the program but my computer says that "the Classic environment is no longer supported".
I'm able to hear the audio from the clips but no video.
Any ideas, I'd really love to be able to watch these, it's the main reason I bought the re-issue.
Thanks in advance.

I've tried to open them with Quicktime 7.6.6, but all it does is bring up the same player as it does when you use Quicktime to play an audio file. I'm starting to think that they are just audio files encoded as .mov considering how old they are (CD was re-issued in 1996, with Quicktime 2.5).
The thing is they are all little random snippets of interviews etc which make little sense when you can't see who is talking.
Anyway, thanks again for your help man.

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