Click here for a fascinating fusion of Google Maps and Google Video. The video is Claude Lelouch’s short film C’était un rendez-vous (1976), and the map shows exactly where his car is as he drives — at very fast speeds — through the streets of Paris.
My father made a similar film with our Super-8 camera only a year or two after Lelouch made his short film, except that my father didn’t drive very fast — he just sat in the passenger seat while our mother drove to my Oma’s house, and he shot only about one frame per second. The end result was a home movie in which a 45-minute drive was condensed to about three minutes.
It could be fun to match that film to a map like this, too.
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