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[mike90]

Two pictures originally posted on ferrarichat.com. I'm including them here only for reference, as you need to be registered there to see them. The author wrote :

 

"I personally took these two pictures in Montecarlo, late September 1970, during the filming of this famous video.
At that time I was fifteen and I was there, by chance, with my family and my camera.
I well remember that the location of these pictures was very close to the famous restaurant Rampoldi (downhill straight after the Casino), it was noon and the roads were partially closed for the event .
The car was driven by J.M.Fangio himself , and the passage in front of the casino has been shooted two times .
Note the tubular structure fitted to bring the camera, in the first photo."

 

 

Link to the original post : http://www.ferrarich...l#post143701439

[Paul Parker]

Two pictures originally posted on ferrarichat.com. I'm including them here only for reference, as you need to be registered there to see them. The author wrote :

 

"I personally took these two pictures in Montecarlo, late September 1970, during the filming of this famous video.
At that time I was fifteen and I was there, by chance, with my family and my camera.
I well remember that the location of these pictures was very close to the famous restaurant Rampoldi (downhill straight after the Casino), it was noon and the roads were partially closed for the event .
The car was driven by J.M.Fangio himself , and the passage in front of the casino has been shooted two times .
Note the tubular structure fitted to bring the camera, in the first photo."

 

 

Link to the original post : http://www.ferrarich...l#post143701439

 

A very different time, where things were still human and valued, no PR/ad bullshit, contrived artifice and hordes of seat polishers, thank God I am old enough to have seen the end of it.

[Nemo1965]

I've seen most of the footage that is available on youtube. Such a film good never be made, especially because which F1-driver would be eloquent enough to write good enough monologues (even with a ghost?)

[Tim Murray]

Hugh Hudson has died:

https://www.bbc.co.u...t-arts-64577201

[Sterzo]

Saw this thread for the first time today.

 

Like Alan Cox, I was at the Kensington showing of the later cut of this film, which was introduced by an apologetic DSJ, who deplored what "they" had done to it, adding gratuitous footage of racing deaths with no relevance to Fangio. Paradoxically, they were tagged on in such an inept way that you could still appreciate the original Fangio film for its own qualities.

 

Have described elsewhere how, before the showing, my wife elbowed past a bemused Moss to get DSJ's signature on our copy of 'The Racing Driver'...

Edited by Sterzo, 11 February 2023 - 11:36.

[Glengavel]

By sheer coincidence I was reading an article about erstwhile prog band Emerson Lake and Palmer and apparently they turned down the offer to score a film about Fangio in the early 1970s; presumably this was Hudson's film.