No - it was worth showing. Just that it didn't fit anywhere else.......it is CGI (Computer Generated
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Does the edit make you feel better ?
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There are parts of the video (even though heavily pixelated) that scream CGI to me. It's of a vehicle driving down that pass at speed. Then some in front of a bluescreen does some moves to be combined later.
His other videos not on the pass are well impressive. On the pass he'd have been dead without a question.
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huh! you'll be telling me Santa doesn't exist either next! spoilsports!
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Don't worry normd2. It isn't CGI, according to the person who found the link, a friend of my daughter. He is a professional film cameraman and says he doesn't think it's CGI. I don't see any evidence for it either. I think the whole thing was photographed from a camera mounted on the front bumper of a car. There is a cut in the middle, but so what?
What is alleged to be HJ's favourite car film, Claude Lelouch's superb 'C'etait un Rendezvous', was shot from a camera mounted on the front bumper of a Mercedes 450 (or something very like one), driven by Lelouch himself who is clearly a bit of a car man.
The sound track was added later and clearly not the sound of a Mercedes engine. Lelouch said a more sporting vehicle couldn't be used because its hard suspension would have caused camera shake.
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Further to my last post: I have now heard directly from the film person concerned. He says to make a phoney CGI that long would be very expensive, and can't think of a good reason for it (given that J-Y Blondeau wants to stretch the limits of an 'extreme sport').
Have to say I agree. What would be the point?
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So I suppose you want it moved to a standalone thread now ?
I bow to the evidence presented....and apologise for my deduction !
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I still think parts look CGI but that might be down to the low quality "U-Tube" video. Anyone know of a better version at higher resolution with less compression artifacts?
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What is alleged to be HJ's favourite car film Claude Lelouch's superb 'C'etait un Rendezvous' was shot from a camera mounted on the front bumper of a Mercedes 450 (or something very like one) driven by Lelouch himself who is clearly a bit of a car man. The sound track was added later and clearly not the sound of a Mercedes engine. Lelouch said a more sporting vehicle couldn't be used because its hard suspension would have caused camera shake.
Wasn't this "debunked" on 5th Gear by V B-H this year when she tried to recreate the original (but couldn't do it in 1 take because of all the traffic)?
The camera was mounted very low on the car, and it was driven at relatively pedestrian speeds.
tinyurl.com/3y9swt
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Sorry, try this link for the clip from the programme:
tinyurl.com/3afl9c
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The camera was mounted very low on the car and it was driven at relatively pedestrian speeds.
Haven't watched the VBH thing, although I will.
But it simply doesn't matter if she can do a send-up or pastiche of the Lelouch.
He thought of it, he did it, he pasted on those really rather good sound effects. In the interview film that can be found on Google or U tube or something,, in which he drives the course again with an occasionally alarmed interviewer, he says at one point: 'It was only a film after all...' or words to that effect.
You can't 'debunk' a successful, very cheap and stirring work of art.
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What I mean is that to Lelouch it was a sort of doodle or cartoon, the work of a single night's planning and shooting and not too long probably in the studio.
You can imitate it, cleverly or not, but you can't debunk it.
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You're right Lud almost like an early viral ad.....before its time but it is enduring. I'm afraid that CGI Man will be gone and forgotten in an instant.
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>>You can imitate it, cleverly or not, but you can't debunk it.
What I meant was that it was shown not to be done at high speed - which is the common belief.
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Just doesn't matter.
Does anything?
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Cheer up JH. I wasn't couselling despair.
What I meant was that films, like other artworks, are exercises in illusion.
No one has ever suggested that 'C'etait un Rendezvous' was some kind of documentary or demonstration.
Did VBH resort to speeding-up the film or something like that? I don't think Lelouch did.
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I watched the VBH thing. Pretty boring really.
She did go quite slowly. But Lelouch didn't, as she admits. Did the whole thing in 9 minutes (to her 2 hrs plus).
If you call that 'debunking' then anyone can 'debunk' anything without any proper effort.
Lelouch wins 10-nil.
How very silly people can be.
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Silly Thread Volume 9.
LOL JH... quite right.
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