Ferrari Video but cool anyway

[cobra25]

Subject: Paris in a 275 GTB

Thought you'd enjoy this...

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.


http://www.vimeo.com/1101437

[ROBERT GWALTNEY]

What an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!

[MFE III]

This has been around for quite time. The general consensus is that, although entertaining, it's a fake.

[CobraDan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C'%...un_rendez-vous

Shot in a single take, it is an example of cinéma-vérité. The length of the film was limited by the short capacity of the reel, and filmed from a gyro-stabilised camera mounted on the bumper of a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9.[2] This model, which could reach a top speed of 235 km/h (146 mph), was only available with a 3-speed automatic transmission. Yet, one can hear gear changes up into 5th, as well as heel-and-toe down-shifting with a high-revving engine indicating speeds of well over 200 km/h. Calculations made by several independent groups showed that the car never exceeded 140 km/h (85 mph)[3], while another[4] estimated that the car had peaked at 220 km/h (136.7 mph). Lelouch himself claimed that the top speed achieved was over 200 km/h, somewhere between 230 km/h and 240 km/h.[5]It is suggested that the sound was dubbed with the noise of Lelouch's 275GTB, which has a corresponding number of gears and a similar engine note.
A making-of-the-rendezvous documentary indicates that Lelouch himself was the driver, that the car driven was the Mercedes, although the sound track is from a Ferrari. One observer was posted close to the Louvre palace at a blind junction (archway) to assist the driver.[6]
Due to the increasing demand and the limited distribution of original tapes,[citation needed] the film has recently been re-mastered from the 35 mm negative and released on DVD.[7]

[Frank Messina]

The older VHS version had a halfway convincing sound track. The newer DVD is total crap. Screeching tires going straight, downshifts for nothing, and a 15 speed gearbox or so it sounds. I'll sell you mine. Played it once.
Frank

[Joe Wicked]

I am real curious to the techniques used to dub the Ferrari sound over the video. They did a real good job. After reading that, I started to pay real close attention to the sounds and the tone changed as they went through arches, between buildings, etc... Enough that it seemed as if the car was really the Ferrari.

[Got the Bug]

Looks like the pulled the video.

[ou812545]

I found another link that works
http://www.iptvone.us/

http://www.iptvone.us/

[wtm442]

Awesome editing ......

Well, it turns out it was Lelouche himself, driving his Mercedes 300 (with two passengers!), on the open streets of Paris. The film was made in one take (that's all the film they had). Oh, and the Ferrari rumor? The soundtrack is pure Ferrari, dubbed in after filming.