Derek69SS
12-08-2005, 12:45 PM
I had heard about this film for several years, but this is the first I've seen it.
:wow: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2851488008488190547&q=rendezvous+paris
Scott, I apologize if this breaks any forum rules, but I just saw it on Team Chevelle and had to share. :willy: I don't normally post anything where people are doing stupid things in the street, but this one I couldn't help. :faint:
C'etait un Rendezvous is the creation of the French filmmaker Claude Lelouch in 1976 and is regarded as the ultimate in chase scenes - the connoisseurs’ trump card in response to "Bullitt" or "The French Connection". The ‘soundtrack’ is just as pure: the brutal wail of the V12 engine, squealing tires and the roar of the exhaust. 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 (a maximum of 136mph, just shy of halfway through the film) 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. There were no special effects, no speeding-up of the film or blocking-off the streets.
:wow: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2851488008488190547&q=rendezvous+paris
Scott, I apologize if this breaks any forum rules, but I just saw it on Team Chevelle and had to share. :willy: I don't normally post anything where people are doing stupid things in the street, but this one I couldn't help. :faint:
C'etait un Rendezvous is the creation of the French filmmaker Claude Lelouch in 1976 and is regarded as the ultimate in chase scenes - the connoisseurs’ trump card in response to "Bullitt" or "The French Connection". The ‘soundtrack’ is just as pure: the brutal wail of the V12 engine, squealing tires and the roar of the exhaust. 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 (a maximum of 136mph, just shy of halfway through the film) 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. There were no special effects, no speeding-up of the film or blocking-off the streets.