Bullit car chase geocoded
A Seero user mapped video of the famous car chase scene from Steve McQueen's Bullit (1968) onto Google Maps. The creator, "Steve McQueen," says: I'm a huge fan of 'the king of cool' and of all movie car-chase scenes. I thought it would be great to mashup famous chases with their GPS tracks. Keep in mind some of the chases cut from one place to another...so I tried to be as accurate as possible. Bullit car chase (Thanks, Jason Tester!)
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this is VERY cool, too bad it doesnt work under Opera :( its desynced :(
That was a hoot! One of my favorite car chases.
Other great car chases:
The French Connection
The Seven Ups
Ronin
Excellent! My dad was the boom man on Bullit and I got to watch some of the car chase filming when was about 10 years old. Good times!
Server is down but this is really cool
"The film was shot in 1976 by Claude Lelouch, a French filmaker. The car is a Ferrari 275 GTB. Damn, those Ferrari V-12 sounds f'n great. And yes, he was arrested when the film was shown to the public."
turn up the sound;
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kppkjW7v-TM
My friend Geoff did this with YouTube last year ( he builds the players for YouTube , so it was a demo )
http://blog.deconcept.com/ytmapmashup/
He based his on this
http://bhendrix.com/wall/Gmaps_GVideo_Mashup_Rendezvous.html
#3 DORAN, What was the camera chase car? I heard that it was an Austin Mini Moke with a 1275cc engine.
My dad hired that camera crew to make Clarol TV ads on the roller coaster at Coney Island. They had the 1st of the computer controlled anti-vibration camera lenses.
Now for extra credit - locations for "It's A Mad, Mad Mad Mad World". Anyone?
my only complaint is that I can't take my eyes off the movie to pay any attention to the map. every time I see that car chase, I tell myself, "it might not look like much now, but in the context of when it was made, blah blah", and then by the end I'm giggling like a 5 year old.
Interesting how many times the green VW beetle is passed. Looks multiple viewpoints of the same basic occurrence were serialized.
Love the teleportations between russian hill and potrero hill and the mission (&c).
I have to say also, the other driver, though somewhat menacing with the henchman, is nerd-cool to the same degree as McQueen is hipster(?) cool.
#6 Steve, I was only there for the filming of two scenes, neither of which used a chase car, so I don't know if it really was a Mini Moke.
Another fun Bullit fact: When the gas station blew up, only half the explosives went off! One can only imagine if it had gone as planned.
Nice idea, works well!
Clint Eastwood's final Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool, had the last word on San Francisco car chases: Harry Callahan's plain vanilla Oldsmobile menaced by a tiny RC car: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zq6OZZx-Qek
I did a three part detailed look at the chase sequence from "The French Connection" a while back.
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/187525/
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/191269/
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/194025/
The last part includes some Google map tracings of the chase route.
The Brooklyn route -
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=638314
The phantom Queens scenes -
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=636449
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=636451
Also satellite views of the Queens scenes as part of an explanation of how I figured out where the scenes were -
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=40.703206&lon=-73.90658&z=18.3&r=0&src=ggl
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=40.707821&lon=-73.913809&z=19.2&r=0&src=ggl
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=40.704862&lon=-73.901836&z=19.4&r=0&src=ggl
Images from the chase Brooklyn neighborhoods as they are now -
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/269618/
Ironically, the top image from the above current neighborhoods link was selected as part of a new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum on the "changing faces of Brooklyn."
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/2008/06/25/click-is-not-a-contest/
This is MADE OF AWSOME! I firmly APPROVE.
...the other driver, though somewhat menacing with the henchman, is nerd-cool to the same degree as McQueen is hipster(?) cool.
That would be the late, great Bill Hickman, who buckled up before things really started moving. He also drove in The French Connection and The Seven Ups.