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Feb 23
2006

Clyde Lelouch's Rendezvous

Posted by dsendecki in Miscellaneous

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This is some cool footage -- found this via Google Video...

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.

Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.

Here's the video from google -- hope this works!

Here's the link to the page on Google video...



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