On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude  Lelouch mounted a  gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB  and had a friend,  a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed  through the heart  of  Paris early in the morning . The film was limited for  technical reasons  to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine,  through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.  No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a  permit.  The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes,  reaching nearly 140 MPH  in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red  lights, nearly  hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real  one-way streets.  Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch  was arrested. He  has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film  went  underground.