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    Paris with great sounds!

    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.

    Make sure your sound is on!!!!

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...=lelouch%3E%20
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    From Wilkepedia:

    Jacques-Henri Laffite is one of the two people (along with Jacques Bernard Ickx) believed most likely to be the unidentified driver in director Claude Lelouch's classic 1976 short film C'était un rendez-vous.

    He looks to be left-handed to me. Whichever or whoever it was definitely has a "sack".


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    The Westport Ct. public library used to have a 16mm copy back in '79-'80 that I used to take out and watch over and over. In the pre-video game days this was pretty heady stuff.

    Lelouch also did a film that had a camera on the back of a Laverda motorcycle going through rush hour Paris traffic flat out - it's also pretty amazing, can't remember the name of the film though. Another one that he did was of a downhill ski racer with a camera on his helmet at (I recall) Kitzbuhel.

    He also made "A Man and A Woman" which featured the '66(?) Monte Carlo Rally. I saw this again recently and as a movie it's very dated (enough of the theme music, please!), but the scenes shot at the Monte are very cool.
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    This is one of the most memborable films I have ever seen. It still gives me chills. I just loaded onto my video iPod, so I can listen in the car.
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