I miss Paris.
In 1976, 29 year old French filmmaker Claude Lelouch strapped a gyroscope-stabilized camera on the front of a high performance car and filmed a white-knuckle mad dash from Paris' western Périphérique through the dark morning streets of the city, arriving at Sacre Coeur atop Montmartre eight minutes later. The film was later released as C'était un rendez-vous and quickly became a hard-to-find underground classic.
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During the unique shoot, he had to get across several red lights but one of them was on a completely blind spot (I think it was at the Louvre entrance, comming out of the Seine border). So Eli Chouraki, one of his fellows, was waiting for him there with a radio, telling him to stop or to go. Unfortunately the radio went off and Lelouch went by the red light without any indication. Lucky guy.
Loads of stories exists about this short movie...
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=727365
http://bhendrix.com/wall/Gmaps_GVideo_Mashup_Rendezvous.html
signed, a Brady
If you read the Wikipedia article for the film itself that I linked in the post, it talks about there being photos of him attaching the camera mechanism to the front of his high performance Mercedes.
You can see definitively that it isn't sped up because he passes and/or interacts with a number of other moving objects, all of which are moving at normal speeds. Pigeons flying, a bus or two crossing his path and people crossing the street on foot move in real time. You'll also notice when he speeds down the Champs-Elysees that every car he passes appears to apply their breaks as he approaches them from behind.