Tighten your seatbelt!!
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.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2851488008488190547&q=lelouch
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