Actually, it's been out for years on VHS before being released on DVD in the last couple years.
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From: "billbranch1" <billbranch1@aol.com>
To: peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:53:13 -0000
Subject: [Peugeot-L] "Paris at 140 mph"
> Hello,
> Someone at the CX-L list posted this. Thought it might be of
On
> interest...
>
> >From Another Place.....
>
> ------------------
>
> This is mental. Here's the story:
>
> "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."
>
> And here's the link. It's absolutely mad, how he didn't
> crash/kill
> someone/kill himself is incredible.
>
> http://aoctavio.castpost.com/rendezvous20_04.mov
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