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Re: Rendezvous

To: "craig boyle" <craig_autox@yahoo.com>,
Subject: Re: Rendezvous
From: "Jerry Mouton" <jerry@moutons.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:11:23 -0700
Well, Windows Media Player 7 plays the internet
version fine (but small and dark).  And it's obviously a
hoax by Lelouch!  If you watch carefully, you see that the
sound track gives you the impression of very high speed.

But watch as he passes cars on the street -- many with
brake lights on, some turning.  Think about how fast cars
would go by if you were passing at a relative speed of
50-75 mph -- no way!  The camera appears to me to be
driving at about 40-50 mph tops.  Maybe a little faster.
But nowhere as fast as the rpms and gear would have you
think.

So I propose that he dubbed on a high speed sound track
on a video taken at speeds just a little above regular
road speed, and made us all think this was a death-defying
trip through Paris.  The dubbing was done very skillfully,
though!  One item that seems off, though, is the tire squeals --
they don't seem well synchronized with the screen effect,
and are too flat and consistent to be a real-time recording.

Proof would be to identify the route he took on a Paris
map and checking the distance travelled vs time taken.
Maybe when I have an idle day I'll set my sceptical
little self down and figure it out.  But I'm not buying it
for now!  YMMV.

Jerry

Jerry Mouton        mailto:jerry@moutons.org    Laissez les bons temps
rouler!

----- Original Message -----
From: "craig boyle" <craig_autox@yahoo.com>
To: "Anthony Tabacco" <atabacco@california.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 8:19 AM
Subject: Rendezvous


> Anybody have a copy of Rendezvous that they could loan
> me?
>
> ...and Tony,  when I autoxed in Austin, signing over
> the PA was a preferred method of event chairs for
> getting volunteers, it worked every time. So let's
> hear it...   :-)
>
> Craig
> --- Anthony Tabacco <atabacco@california.com> wrote:
> > This is your daily morning (and increasingly
> > plaintiff) request to help with
> > setup for this Sundays event. Don't make Tony and I
> > have to hum the theme
> > from "High Noon" all day. OK?
> >
> > BTW, the best car movie ever made was the short
> > "Rendezvous". The camera
> > was strapped to the roll bar of a Ferrari 275LM at
> > dawn in Paris and the
> > driver did a full tilt and totally unauthorized
> > boogie  across the city.
> > Highlights include the poor woman who started across
> > the streetcorner and
> > then saw this car doing maybe 130 about to use her
> > foot as an apex cone, the
> > early morning garbage crew, and the pass at the arc
> > d' triumph. The film
> > lasts seven minutes. Don't forget about setup.
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