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On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a
gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a
friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through
the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10
minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the
Basilica of Sacre Coeur. No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable
to obtain a permit. The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes,
reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him
running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving
the wrong way up real one-way streets.
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.
http://www.hardscience.net/rendezvous20_04.mov
gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a
friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through
the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10
minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the
Basilica of Sacre Coeur. No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable
to obtain a permit. The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes,
reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him
running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving
the wrong way up real one-way streets.
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.
http://www.hardscience.net/rendezvous20_04.mov