Youtube's algorithm suggested this to me. Pretty good if you ask me, but what do I know (nothing, really).
Anyway, thought you guys might like it. It's totally respectful.
Posted 04 December 2019 - 23:30
Youtube's algorithm suggested this to me. Pretty good if you ask me, but what do I know (nothing, really).
Anyway, thought you guys might like it. It's totally respectful.
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Posted 05 December 2019 - 08:39
Posted 05 December 2019 - 09:19
Posted 05 December 2019 - 10:33
Ahem... it was still bright daylight at the time of the accident...
Posted 05 December 2019 - 23:01
Interview of the Director in French but with English subtitles where he explains why he made the film and the respective research. Not very convincing, I would say.
Posted 06 December 2019 - 13:14
Posted 06 December 2019 - 15:58
Oh. My. Goodness... Where to even begin!
Ahem... it was still bright daylight at the time of the accident...
It was still very much daylight at the time the incident happened. That is something that I distinctly remember.
I have a distinct feeling that if Mike Argetsinger were still about he would carefully word a post to explain that John Fitch was a 'team player' and could not possibly have displayed the attitude he's given in this clip...
Maybe Don Capps could have something to say about it too?
Although Mike -- not to mention his father, Cameron -- certainly knew John Fitch far better than I did, of course, I did spend considerable time with Fitch on a number of occasions, mostly in the company of Mike, but also several times with Cameron. No idea as why Fitch was portrayed that way, at least none that I am aware of. Fitch's accounts of his time with Mercedes are readily available and his performances would definitely suggest that Fitch was very much a Team Player.
As mentioned, Daimler-Benz was definitely looking at competing in 1956 at this time. Not to point out, of course, that a week later there was Neubauer at Zandvoort -- not to mention the rest of abbreviated season.Scarcely Don Alfredo's last race....
Fitch suggested that one person who was truly affected by the crash was Phil Walters.
From the time I was a schoolboy and watched Fitch and then later as I was fortunate enough to actually have the sort of rambling, bouncing-around sort of casual conversations that tend to give you a good idea about someone, I admired John Fitch. I think that I can say with some assurance that the Argetsinger family definitely thought very highly of Fitch. This includes Jean Argetsinger as well as Mike and Cameron.
Whatever possessed the person making this video to produce something that is basically a counterfactual tale is beyond me.
Edited by DCapps, 06 December 2019 - 15:58.
Posted 07 December 2019 - 14:26
Errr, colour me UNimpressed, then... Seemed pretty down-to-earth to me - I feared a trashy manga (japanimation) style superexplosion and was treated to a nice tale, but which amounts, I understand, to a complete fabulation...
Oh well...
Posted 07 December 2019 - 20:33
Posted 08 December 2019 - 23:42
Sorry - but I find that a pretty nasty, distasteful, ugly piece of work. Why work so hard - and with such evident skill - to produce such a piece of misleading dross...?
Edited by Doug Nye, 13 December 2019 - 23:42.
Posted 09 December 2019 - 01:59
Posted 09 December 2019 - 03:52
My sincere thanks to MaxScelerate for posting the film here, as otherwise I should probably never have come across it. But as Doug says, they obviously put a lot of effort into it, and some of the minor attention to detail was fascinating. So why, why oh why did they have to make such a bollocks of the main story? They even chose to alter the time of the accident - why?I'd hate for Max to be feeling that he's wasted his efforts posting this here...
It was worthwhile looking at from the point of view that if we encounter people who have seen it we can help them understand what was right and what was wrong.
Posted 09 December 2019 - 14:28
Sorry - but I find that a pretty nasty, distasteful, ugly piece of work. Why work so hard - and with such evident skill - to produce such a piece of misleadng dross...?
My sincere thanks to MaxScelerate for posting the film here, as otherwise I should probably never have come across it. But as Doug says, they obviously put a lot of effort into it, and some of the minor attention to detail was fascinating. So why, why oh why did they have to make such a bollocks of the main story? They even chose to alter the time of the accident - why?
Posted 10 December 2019 - 00:40
What was the point?
They wrote the script because it makes an emotional impact. Telling the story factually doesn't suit the project.
Film making is like politics, you are working towards an end you want to achieve and the truth will frequently be inconvenient to the process.
Posted 10 December 2019 - 00:59
Posted 11 December 2019 - 00:51
Hey, it's all good with me. I learned a lot, so thanks everyone. And I'll have to concur with Doug, Tim and all in wondering why would someone (seemingly) be so thorough and then discard whole chunks of important reality. Obviously it's that appearance of attention to details that sold me on it, so... meh.