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.
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