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Postby NYIllustrator » Nov 15, 2005 @ 5:55pm

Check this out:

C’etait un Rendezvous is the creation of the French filmmaker Claude Lelouch in 1976. Using a Ferrari 275 GTB early one August morning, Lelouch attached a camera to the bumper of the car and sped through the streets of Paris. He gave the driver a set route from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur, which is straight through the heart of Paris. The driver is still unknown to this day, because Lelouch was never able to obtain a permit to close the streets. The driver, who Lelouch told officials was an F1 racer, went over the speed limit and blew off many red lights. When this film was first shown, Lelouch was arrested, and because of this, the footage has spent many years underground before it began to resurface on DVD a few years ago. Lelouch used a new technology of the time, a gyro stabilized camera mount, in order to mount the camera on the car. The problem with this is that the technology of the time only allowed for a ten minute film with this mount. Lelouch told his driver to rush because of this time limit, and the video itself is only about nine minutes. In our velocity graph, we used all footage of the car when it was in motion.


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Try to count how many reds he runs, people he hits and pigeons that scurry out of his way!
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Postby MZGuy » Nov 15, 2005 @ 6:22pm

Nice video, but what an idiotic idea. Risking people's lives like that just for a stupid film... I'm glad he was arrested.
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Postby James S » Nov 15, 2005 @ 7:36pm

It's called art! Risk anything for the sake of art!
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Postby refractor » Nov 15, 2005 @ 8:33pm

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