2010年12月20日 星期一
C'etait un rendez-vous by Claude Lelouch
C'etait un rendez-vous is as short movie created by Claude Lelouch in 1976. It is a single-take shot from a fixed camera on the front side of a Mercedes 450 SEL which crosses Paris at high speed (Lelouch was himself the driver). The film has been made without any trick (except for the soundtrack since it is a Ferrari being recorded) and fortunately the streets were almost empty since it was 5:30 AM.
The film has some very high hypnotic values and provokes an extraction of reality (or at least of the usual perception of scale) since the Parisian environment is moving that fast (even more for myself who used to ride a bike in Paris !).
Another interesting thing is to observe that we are now more than 30 years ahead from this movie and 99% of the buildings appearing on it did not change at all. It is symptomatic of a frozen Paris which refuses to see itself evolves...
2010年12月18日 星期六
2010年12月12日 星期日
STO-A-WAY Car
Safety experts today would probably be aghast at the sight of the booth for "Sto-A-Way " seats, at the 1954 auto show. This product was a tiny multi-purpose device that attached under the car's dashboard and pulled out via a metal scissors-opening device, then sat on metal legs on the front seat. It could serve as a baby seat, tabletop, or writing table. When finished, it folded away again under the dash. In the booth is an actual car seat and dashboard, along with a baby doll that's buckled onto a Sto-A-Way seat.
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