Hey, I'm no expert, E.J.! I'm just inviting y'all to
take a close look... I still think it's enjoyable....; -)
Jerry
Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
rouler!
----- Original Message -----
From: "BAYLISS, E. J. (PBD)" <EJ.Bayliss@sbcdo.com>
To: "'Jerry Mouton'" <jerry@moutons.org>; "craig boyle"
<craig_autox@yahoo.com>; "Anthony Tabacco" <atabacco@california.com>;
<ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:35 PM
Subject: RE: Rendezvous
> 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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