Well put! You sound like a Martin Gardner afficionado (I sure am). Always
refreshing to hear the voice of the rational skeptic.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Jerry Mouton
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:11
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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