Boy. I think I liked Rendevous better the first time I saw it (with a bunch
of vintage Porsche drivers in Morro Bay) when we all just thought it was
real and real fun. There's something about dissecting the heck out of it
... This is why I'm in sales and Jerry was an engineer! :-) (Although I'm
impressed that he CAN dissect the heck out of it!)
Anyone have a bridge they're trying to sell? I'm obviously the one to pitch!
EJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Mouton [SMTP:jerry@moutons.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:11 PM
To: craig boyle; Anthony Tabacco; ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Rendezvous
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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