The Elaborate Fabrication...

[BustedKnuckles]

In the pre-dawn hours of a Paris morning in the late summer of 1976, French film maker Claude Lelouch and 2 friends climbed into Claude's camera-equipped 6.8L Mercedes 450 SEL and set off on a high speed tour of the nearly empty morning streets. When the film had been developed the plain vanilla hum of the big Benz engine through its 3 speed automatic transmission had been replaced by the tortured protest of skinny tires on cobbled streets, the throaty howl of a V-12 Ferrari engine and the crisp, precise shifts (well, must of them anyway) of a practiced driver. The video eventually went world-wide, Lelouch having been given a traffic ticket by French police for his escapade.

If you have never had the experience of this fantasy or would simply like to revisit it, the somewhat-low resolution video can be found at https://vimeo.com/63440889
(The still image from the end of the video will acquire the controls of a video after several seconds)

After you have enjoyed it, some of the secrets behind its birth are revealed at https://www.doobybrain.com/2012/09/...al-video-of-him-racing-through-paris-in-1976/

 

[DART]

Sorry, "C'était Un Rendez-Vous (Claude Lelouch, 1976)" was deleted at 10:57:32 Thu May 9, 2013.
Vimeo has removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by Spirit Level Film claiming that this material is infringing: C'était Un Rendez-Vous (Claude Lelouch, 1976).

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Try this one... https://www.loscuadernosdejulia.com/2011/08/claude-lelouch-cetait-un-rendez-vous.html . Use the ↔ arrows in the lower right corner of the vid to go full screen. To get the English captions for the "making of" video, click on the "CC" icon also in the lower right corner of the screen.

There is also a full length on Flixxy https://www.flixxy.com/claude-lelouch-rendezvous.htm The video is not as good but the audio is still great!

 

[JPSmit]

I've seen the video before - what amazes me the most is that the traffic was ever that light in Paris!

 

[Guest]

I don't believe it wasn't sped up as youcan clearly see it speed up upon "shifting"

 

[rlwhitetr3b]

The sound track was replaced, so the speed change at the shift points would have had to be created also. I you do not mean the shift points in the sound track, if you speed up the entire film the increase of speed would still be there.

 

[Guest]

I you do not mean the shift points in the sound track, if you speed up the entire film the increase of speed would still be there.

I'm not quite sure I understand what you just said but I think we're talking about the same thing. I'm refering to the dubbed in gear shifts. They state the film wasn't speed up, however; you can see an accelration of road speed just after the dubbed in gear changes which would mean they did indeed artificially increase film speed.

I did like it; never knew or heard about it before. I'm gonna have to call B.S on all the hype from the narrator. It would take far longer than 10 minutes just to mount the camera, much less plan and place the spotter guy. I don't buy this was a, "Hey Baby, I'll be right there" like he claims. It was made to be exactly what it is, a film about a guy, a fast car and a girl; nothing more. I can assure everyone here that every red light I've ever run, every street race I've ever been it and my entirer lifetime spent in pursuit of said practices had absolutley NOTHING to do with this film....honest officer :grin:.