This video is from a silent movie based on the 1912 French GP, using actual footage from the race. Captions identifying the cars and locations (in some case) have been added. Quality film footage of racing this early is scarce.
1912 French GP - rare footage
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, Feb 02 2015 10:59 AM
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 10:59 AM
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 11:03 AM
Was PdL in this race? 
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 11:21 AM
C'mon, Bill, Philippe isn' that old. He didn't make his first start in the French GP until 1920...
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 12:37 PM
Was PdL in this race?
LOL.
Cool footage! I love seeing how the old roads were used for such races. I wonder what those locations look like today(?).
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 02:58 PM
I can't believe they were fighting over that woman. 
Looked a lot like an F1 race today, follow the leader.
I wonder if that movie won the Oscar that year.
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 05:14 PM
Great stuff, Greg. Mélodrame is indeed a French word!
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PS: Hope you don't mind if i put the link to SB on the French forum...
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PS: Hope you don't mind if i put the link to SB on the French forum...
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 06:10 PM
Link away, Don. That's never a problem.
BTW, I found a YouTube video showing the 1906 French GP I'll post in a bit.
BTW, I found a YouTube video showing the 1906 French GP I'll post in a bit.
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 10:42 PM
This was the race where Bruce-Brown was disqualified while leading.
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 10:49 PM
I wonder what those locations look like today(?).
Two world wars might really have altered these locations.
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 11:06 PM
But I'd bet the "shape" of the roads, how they wind through the countryside, is still pretty much intact. And building on what you say about the locations being altered, yes... there are probably many buildings now alongside the roads, obscuring what was once countryside 100 years ago.
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