There's a subtitled interview with him, years later, by a French journalist who does it in the original, yet very worn out 6.9 that the director did the film in. The film maker is driving the car along the route, at high speed, while being interviewed, scaring the beJeezus outta the reporter. Along the way, he drops little factoids about that day. It could have all gone terribly wrong due to a 2 way radio snafu. It can be found here on the tube of you. For anyone who enjoys Rendezvous, it's a must see..
If you look closely he's not actually much faster than other cars on the road, just the dubbed noise an low camera position do the trick. If you examine the course with map, this road is actually doable at legal speeds in the same time as the movie. The only condition is that there can't be much traffic and you need all green lights. It might be impressive at first watch, but for a person who's seen a lot of rally onboads, it's painfully obvious that the car is actually going very slowly.
Yes, if my memory is good, it was for Auto Plus, and it was made the 15 august 2006. And the most surprising thing in this "remake" is that sun luminosity was exactly the same.
See the thing I’ve always wondered is - how did he record the sound of the 275GTB V12 so accurately rowing through the gears and speeding along, downshifting, etc in tandem with the footage itself? And where? For the period, that’s the real achievement!
In a garage, with the Ferrari up on blocks, while playing the footage and revving and shifting to match, it's why the deepest sound of the carburetors being wide open is not there.
I don't think it would work with no load on the engine. If you lift a car so the tyres don't touch the ground, the engine revs different. Almost as in neutral. So they either would have needed to put the ferrari on a dyno and play the video for Ferrari driver so he could try to make it match. They then also need the tyre squeeling to put on the audio track.
@@nirfzmaybe with a loaded Dyno perhaps? Those things probably existed at some point at the time? Or maybe a rolling road or whatever they are called.
Thank you for this informative and succinct video of this iconic drive through Paris. My wife and I recently walked the route, as closely as we could, and it was a lot of fun pointing out all the landmarks.
So, an interesting new development. If you look closely when he goes around Arc de Triomphe, you’ll catch a glimpse of some banners and hay bales. These are we’re the same banners and such from the Disney film Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo which shot on location in Paris. So, this also explains how he was likely able to pull off this feat. Many of the roads were likely closed for the films climactic race start and race. Plus the guise of a fast car with an elaborate camera set up may not have looked out of the ordinary for what was being done.
It was actually the Paris filming of Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo in August 1976, but your thought process is exactly the same as mine when I rediscovered the connection back in February 2023. I actually went as far as sending Claude Lelouch a note through his website shortly thereafter; unsurprisingly I never heard back from him.
I don't know how this channel came up in my recommendations, but I am super glad it did. Got a few years worth of stuff to catch up on, but so far so good. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
I don't care that he used his Merc. The suspension was better for Paris anyway. The film works. It remains one of the greatest things put to film. The original Ghostrider.
Yup, me too... Might be easier to watch it online, but I think I'm going to try and find the DVD. And a DVD player to watch it on might be useful too...
Everyone could check the time (1 minute ?) needed to cover the Champs Elysees (2km?) and find out that the speed was about 120kph or 75 mph, about half of the claimed Ferrari V12 speed. I posted this simple calculation on IMDB, Amazon etc. and people were mad at me. They wanted to believe!
Hard to tell, the back and B-Pillar dont look like a capri, but also the side not quite like a Fastback.. but its also not a Celica GT so I guess it really is a 1965 Mustang
@427Motorsports what is more fascinating and very few people know this is LeLocuh filmed this the same week Disney were in town filming Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. The hay bales and banners round the Arc de Triomphe are the same as seen in the Paris racing scenes HGTMC, watch them side by side and slow them down. I can’t find any thing further on this but wonder whether LeLouch was in some way connected with the second unit production of HGTMC, this was at a time when not everyone was given a credit in film production. It can be no coincidence he picked a day that a major film was being shot in Paris. Also Disney had already mounted cameras to the front of cars for production of Herbie Rides again and these cars were re-used in the production of HGTMC. Was the Merc being used to shoot second unit race footage for Disney? Was Lelouch just an opportunist that if he was stopped would just say “I’m filming for Disney?” and blag his way out of it? Or was he working for Disney under an NDA and used the opportunity to make his film? There’s more to this iconic film than we may ever know.
Great video. I remember reading many years ago that although at the time everyone thought it was done with a ferrari, it had been revealed that it was recorded from the front of a Citroën 2CV and speeded up!! Shows how wrong that was!!!
@@stejer211 Yes, I knew that. He owned a Ferrari 275 as well, but he chose to drive the merc and do the extra effort to dub his Ferrari in sync with the video. Thats why i was wondering why didn't he drive his Ferrari in the 1st place
The filming of Mad Max here in Australia was also filmed without permission in several locations 😂😂 As you say.. those days are gone now, as are the film styles associated with that era.. very few modern films will become cult classics 50 years from now
We could recreate the video around the streets of Melbourne in my 76 450se. Granted not the full fat 6.9 But she'll still pick up her heels and cut a dash.
Get you Connor - with a decent accent Francais ...! Bravo ! And not a single F**** uttered - (Tomo take note) . Nice to see some Merc content , off to watch the film again now . Hope you're both well lads and not regretting your Type 2 choices.
Didn't they do a similar setup in the film Rohnin? If you like this sort of thing, take a look at the Blood runners film. Same sort of thing only with motorbikes
Amazing video indeed! If Claude Lelouch had used a Citroën SM with a Maserati engine and open exhaust, I am confident that he would have achieved a stunning result. No need for a Mercedes-Benz and a Ferrari.
But it probably would not have started or broken down at the moment he wanted to film it. The 450 SEL was way more reliable than the Maserati powered citroens.
Ahhh...now I know from where it comes from a video a friend of mine who graduated at Paris VII sent me years ago. I was intrigued by the story. To me it was a bout love, not speed. Why the algorithm showed this video years later is a mystery...just like it was that video back then.
Back in the days when Mercedes produced quality cars. Unfortunately it all stopped in 1995 because of the worst CEO ever! Unfortunately I exactly know what I'm talking about because I bought my very first new (and only) car in 1998, a W210.
@427Motorsports Dear 427... As one of the biggest Daimler- Benz respectively Mercedes fans I would love if it would be that way, but: No, they definitely didn't! You can buy a bit more quality after 2004 but it has never become what it was before the crap producing Schrempp. This is reliable information coming from several Mercedes employees (official factory branch) who actually service and work on these cars. Best regards, luck and health in particular.
True, but back in 1970s Australia, you could get away with pretty much anything. Heck, the original Mad Max stunt driving crew were given the "Green Light" by the commissioner of Vic Pol. They couldn't be pulled over for speeding even after shoot hours.
There's a subtitled interview with him, years later, by a French journalist who does it in the original, yet very worn out 6.9 that the director did the film in. The film maker is driving the car along the route, at high speed, while being interviewed, scaring the beJeezus outta the reporter. Along the way, he drops little factoids about that day. It could have all gone terribly wrong due to a 2 way radio snafu. It can be found here on the tube of you. For anyone who enjoys Rendezvous, it's a must see..
If you look closely he's not actually much faster than other cars on the road, just the dubbed noise an low camera position do the trick. If you examine the course with map, this road is actually doable at legal speeds in the same time as the movie. The only condition is that there can't be much traffic and you need all green lights. It might be impressive at first watch, but for a person who's seen a lot of rally onboads, it's painfully obvious that the car is actually going very slowly.
can we have the link of that interview?, can't find it.
edit: never mind I just found it "C'était un rendez vous Lelouch Making of"
This one. ruclips.net/video/XOrlgu-Qkpg/видео.html
Yes, if my memory is good, it was for Auto Plus, and it was made the 15 august 2006. And the most surprising thing in this "remake" is that sun luminosity was exactly the same.
This one?
ruclips.net/video/XOrlgu-Qkpg/видео.htmlsi=4KCwYMTxE7cxPsnO
See the thing I’ve always wondered is - how did he record the sound of the 275GTB V12 so accurately rowing through the gears and speeding along, downshifting, etc in tandem with the footage itself? And where? For the period, that’s the real achievement!
In a garage, with the Ferrari up on blocks, while playing the footage and revving and shifting to match, it's why the deepest sound of the carburetors being wide open is not there.
I don't think it would work with no load on the engine. If you lift a car so the tyres don't touch the ground, the engine revs different. Almost as in neutral. So they either would have needed to put the ferrari on a dyno and play the video for Ferrari driver so he could try to make it match. They then also need the tyre squeeling to put on the audio track.
Accurately?
@@nirfzmaybe with a loaded Dyno perhaps? Those things probably existed at some point at the time? Or maybe a rolling road or whatever they are called.
@@AfroMyrdal Yes, i think that would be the best way of achieving it.
Thank you for this informative and succinct video of this iconic drive through Paris.
My wife and I recently walked the route, as closely as we could, and it was a lot of fun pointing out all the landmarks.
Thank you. Great treat. Currently grieving the demise of Jaguar!!
We're feeling the loss of Jag too, we're hoping to discuss it a bit in a video this weekend
They've announced that they'd turn full ev few years ago.
Or were You hoping they won't do this?
Their demise was being bought up like every other British car company
Dude, Jag died in the 80's. Rest was just life support.
Yet nobody has been buying them.
Hello from California. Nice to see "my car" in the intro. Although my 79 w116 is a much slower (110ps) North American market only 300SD
OK. So? You're a simp with a us spec merc. Slow clap.
I knew about the story, but not that they recorded all this without any gyroscope for stabilization, that is crazy!
@Hugothester - that whole car is one gigantic gyroscopic stabilizer😂😂😂
@@friendlypiranha774 It is, I own one hahaha
Thanks to the fantastic hydropneumatic suspension
So, an interesting new development. If you look closely when he goes around Arc de Triomphe, you’ll catch a glimpse of some banners and hay bales. These are we’re the same banners and such from the Disney film Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo which shot on location in Paris. So, this also explains how he was likely able to pull off this feat. Many of the roads were likely closed for the films climactic race start and race. Plus the guise of a fast car with an elaborate camera set up may not have looked out of the ordinary for what was being done.
It was actually the Paris filming of Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo in August 1976, but your thought process is exactly the same as mine when I rediscovered the connection back in February 2023. I actually went as far as sending Claude Lelouch a note through his website shortly thereafter; unsurprisingly I never heard back from him.
@@MikeDyer6378 You're right Mike, I had bananas on the brain. LOL.
@@carguy53 Lol, It is the most underrated of the original IV films! #NoShame
Wonderful story, thanks for putting this together.
I don't know how this channel came up in my recommendations, but I am super glad it did. Got a few years worth of stuff to catch up on, but so far so good. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Amazing cinematography ! Fascinating information. Thanks so much for this insightful video. New subscriber. ❤
Fair play Connor. Good research, and you clearly paid attention in french class in School! Your french teacher would be proud!😁
Cheers Owen! I wish I'd paid attention in school, would have saved me a lot of research haha!
Great short documentary! Thanks for the good watch man!
I don't care that he used his Merc. The suspension was better for Paris anyway. The film works. It remains one of the greatest things put to film. The original Ghostrider.
I wish there was an unedited version with the Merc's engine note.
hey! thank you for introducing me to this short film.
it's great : )
I feel cheated... Way back in 2003 I ordered a restored and remastered DVD version of "Rendezvous"... Cost me $37 😅
Yup, me too...
Might be easier to watch it online, but I think I'm going to try and find the DVD.
And a DVD player to watch it on might be useful too...
Everyone could check the time (1 minute ?) needed to cover the Champs Elysees (2km?) and find out that the speed was about 120kph or 75 mph, about half of the claimed Ferrari V12 speed. I posted this simple calculation on IMDB, Amazon etc. and people were mad at me. They wanted to believe!
3:05 is that a Ford Mustang fastback parked on the right? 😮
I thought it was a Capri but not totally sure!
Hard to tell, the back and B-Pillar dont look like a capri, but also the side not quite like a Fastback.. but its also not a Celica GT so I guess it really is a 1965 Mustang
It's a Mustang Mach 1 Fastback.
@@harveybrooks2597 Didn’t guessed it because I thought it would look more boxy but yeah I think you’re right
It’s a Mustang fastback. Same shape as the original Gone in 60 seconds one.
- Tomo
All the money in the world and I’d pay whatever it took to recreate this film, with an S65.
Clearly, if you need something done Reliably with a car.. you need something out of Stuttgart or Munich.
Only thing come close or something like to this is the Cannonball runs
@427Motorsports what is more fascinating and very few people know this is LeLocuh filmed this the same week Disney were in town filming Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. The hay bales and banners round the Arc de Triomphe are the same as seen in the Paris racing scenes HGTMC, watch them side by side and slow them down.
I can’t find any thing further on this but wonder whether LeLouch was in some way connected with the second unit production of HGTMC, this was at a time when not everyone was given a credit in film production.
It can be no coincidence he picked a day that a major film was being shot in Paris. Also Disney had already mounted cameras to the front of cars for production of Herbie Rides again and these cars were re-used in the production of HGTMC.
Was the Merc being used to shoot second unit race footage for Disney? Was Lelouch just an opportunist that if he was stopped would just say “I’m filming for Disney?” and blag his way out of it? Or was he working for Disney under an NDA and used the opportunity to make his film? There’s more to this iconic film than we may ever know.
How about the sound of the engine?
Great video. I remember reading many years ago that although at the time everyone thought it was done with a ferrari, it had been revealed that it was recorded from the front of a Citroën 2CV and speeded up!! Shows how wrong that was!!!
Is the background music around 1:34 The Chosen One by Bryan Ferry? Awesome!
I knew the story but didn't know why he picked the merc since he had the ferrari anyway. Now I know! cheers 😁
There was no Ferrari, only the sound of it.
@@stejer211 Yes, I knew that. He owned a Ferrari 275 as well, but he chose to drive the merc and do the extra effort to dub his Ferrari in sync with the video. Thats why i was wondering why didn't he drive his Ferrari in the 1st place
@@InfernalStateMachineif I had to guess, the Ferraris suspension would render the film unusable without stabilizing
@@copeland7225 Yes, it was all about the suspension and camera stabilization, as I've learned in this video for the first time. That was my point 🙂
The movie that is impossible to find.
I'm surprised Ferrari didn't sue him for using their engine sounds on a vastly superior car.. :P
Don't give them ideas!
Is the song playing in the background "The Chosen One" by Bryan Ferry?
That's right!
Yellow lights and a engine sounding from the back, yet having a front shot are clues it wasn't a Ferrari 😂...
It seems this movie was release around the same year as the GTI in 1976 (in the continent)
Citroen DS please...and then SM, CX, XM, C5...and now no more hydropneumatic suspensions.
Those are gay
Great video! Must have seen this film 100 times, love it. Great soundtrack choice, which mix is that?
West end wolf! 😁
@ thanks, I love Bryan Ferry Boys and Girls album and this version of chosem one is very cool, perfect for driving through Paris 😉
It's a great album! I think it got a lot of airtime on Miami Vice too!
@@427Motorsports Yes there's also a great Roxy song on Miami Vice soundtrack..... gotta love the 80's
A Ferrari would fall apart as soon as it hit the first cobble stone at speed.
The filming of Mad Max here in Australia was also filmed without permission in several locations 😂😂
As you say.. those days are gone now, as are the film styles associated with that era.. very few modern films will become cult classics 50 years from now
It was the clip to song “open your eyes” !!?
The music really covers your voices about the suspension part
Where can I see the film in full res with no compression?
Great film, and great vid about it - thanks.
Thanks 427. This is awesome. I love street scenes in classic movies. Please, what's the title of the movie? Can't find it anywhere
This one is C'etait un Rendezvous!
here's your 1000th like. Amazing video man!
How did they manage to sync up Ferrari soundso well at the time?
We could recreate the video around the streets of Melbourne in my 76 450se.
Granted not the full fat 6.9
But she'll still pick up her heels and cut a dash.
All you need is a GoPro and some balls and I'd suggest a few spotters
*W116 FTW!!* 💪🏽
Get you Connor - with a decent accent Francais ...! Bravo ! And not a single F**** uttered - (Tomo take note) . Nice to see some Merc content , off to watch the film again now . Hope you're both well lads and not regretting your Type 2 choices.
Cheers Guy! Type 2 still very much in the honeymoon phase haha
No fucks given! ;) - T
@@427Motorsports Top Man !
Didn't they do a similar setup in the film Rohnin? If you like this sort of thing, take a look at the Blood runners film. Same sort of thing only with motorbikes
Love the French with Irish twist ❤
Hopefully the pronunciation isn't too butchered! 😂
@@427Motorsports Thought it was very good TBH .
Beautiful JLC on his wrist
You learn something new everyday.Great video.an amazing car.i believe James Hunt had one.
You're obviously not too shoddy at sticking a video together yourselves.. Entertaining stuff.
Is that an instrumental of Bryan Ferry’s The Chosen One underpinning everything?
It is!
@ love it. Elevated an already great video!
Never seen that before!
Song name?
Bryan Ferry - the chosen one
Thanks @@427Motorsports
Please, what is the name of song in video. Thanks
Gay Dizziness by The Ravens
Amazing video indeed! If Claude Lelouch had used a Citroën SM with a Maserati engine and open exhaust, I am confident that he would have achieved a stunning result. No need for a Mercedes-Benz and a Ferrari.
You may be onto something!
But it probably would not have started or broken down at the moment he wanted to film it. The 450 SEL was way more reliable than the Maserati powered citroens.
Ahhh...now I know from where it comes from a video a friend of mine who graduated at Paris VII sent me years ago. I was intrigued by the story. To me it was a bout love, not speed.
Why the algorithm showed this video years later is a mystery...just like it was that video back then.
C'était un rendezvous from Lelouche
I would rather have listened to the mighty M100 instead of dubbed fake sound.
Back in the days when Mercedes produced quality cars. Unfortunately it all stopped in 1995 because of the worst CEO ever! Unfortunately I exactly know what I'm talking about because I bought my very first new (and only) car in 1998, a W210.
They brought back the quality with the W211 😉
@427Motorsports
Dear 427...
As one of the biggest Daimler- Benz respectively Mercedes fans I would love if it would be that way, but: No, they definitely didn't! You can buy a bit more quality after 2004 but it has never become what it was before the crap producing Schrempp. This is reliable information coming from several Mercedes employees (official factory branch) who actually service and work on these cars.
Best regards, luck and health in particular.
a 6.9 of course
Did the steriophonics have a video like this??
You might be thinking of Snow Patrol's 'Open Your Eyes' that had this as the music video?
@willsutters6038 Thanks , got my bands mixed up 👍
I have little interest in a Ferrari but would take a w116 any day.
Impressive!
Did this man make money with his film that is basically scam and dangerous driving?😅
❤
In Australia you'd be treated worse than a "terrorist" driving like that.
True, but back in 1970s Australia, you could get away with pretty much anything.
Heck, the original Mad Max stunt driving crew were given the "Green Light" by the commissioner of Vic Pol. They couldn't be pulled over for speeding even after shoot hours.
@Kamina1703 bring the 70's back 😂😂.
Cringe