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Belle Cora
I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but …
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but did not seem like such a big deal at the time. There were lots of movies before it with chase scenes. The thing that changed Hollywood for the next 25 years or so was that : A. the cars were filmed at real speed - 100 mph+. Before this they either speeded up the cameras and did not have other cars in the scene so it looked like the car was going fast although it was not or they had the "stars" in a car on the set and a fake back gound in back of them and all the stars had to remember was to turn the steering wheels once in a while. Such as Hollywood stardom and lack of care in editing that they were as likely as not to turn the wheel in the wrong direction than the road in the background would indicate they shoud turn it. B. there was a real star behind the wheel at speed. Steve put an end to all of of the fake stuff. Never again would an audiance be fooled by the fakeness (until the 1990's when computer generated chase scenes would take over.) So 1968 - 1990 or so was the golden age for car chase scenes - real cars on real roads at real speeds going real fast and with the very occasional real star behind the wheel (Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner). Now we come to Steve though. He was a real motor cycle racer - he also raced a Porsche 917 at Le Mans and made the movie Le Mans which is the best racing movie ever made (Grand Prix with James Garner the second best. So he was the genuine article and according to docmentaries that I have seen hated it when the movie sudios would make him accept a stunt double - he was too valuable to risk according to them, not to Steve. The best scene in the chase sequence has Steve missing a turn up a hill and smoking the tire (as apposed to tires - no posi traction) up the hill. According to the documantry, this was a mistake. Steve was actually dri
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Wed, Jul 22 · 6:00 PM
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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Parlor Tricks
Belle Cora
Offbeat SF
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2026-07-03 04:03 |
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Bullitt
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but …
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but did not seem like such a big deal at the time. There were lots of movies before it with chase scenes. The thing that changed Hollywood for the next 25 years or so was that : A. the cars were filmed at real speed - 100 mph+. Before this they either speeded up the cameras and did not have other cars in the scene so it looked like the car was going fast although it was not or they had the "stars" in a car on the set and a fake back gound in back of them and all the stars had to remember was to turn the steering wheels once in a while. Such as Hollywood stardom and lack of care in editing that they were as likely as not to turn the wheel in the wrong direction than the road in the background would indicate they shoud turn it. B. there was a real star behind the wheel at speed. Steve put an end to all of of the fake stuff. Never again would an audiance be fooled by the fakeness (until the 1990's when computer generated chase scenes would take over.) So 1968 - 1990 or so was the golden age for car chase scenes - real cars on real roads at real speeds going real fast and with the very occasional real star behind the wheel (Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner). Now we come to Steve though. He was a real motor cycle racer - he also raced a Porsche 917 at Le Mans and made the movie Le Mans which is the best racing movie ever made (Grand Prix with James Garner the second best. So he was the genuine article and according to docmentaries that I have seen hated it when the movie sudios would make him accept a stunt double - he was too valuable to risk according to them, not to Steve. The best scene in the chase sequence has Steve missing a turn up a hill and smoking the tire (as apposed to tires - no posi traction) up the hill. According to the documantry, this was a mistake. Steve was actually dri
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Thu, Jul 23 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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2026-07-03 07:36 |
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Bullitt
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but …
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but did not seem like such a big deal at the time. There were lots of movies before it with chase scenes. The thing that changed Hollywood for the next 25 years or so was that : A. the cars were filmed at real speed - 100 mph+. Before this they either speeded up the cameras and did not have other cars in the scene so it looked like the car was going fast although it was not or they had the "stars" in a car on the set and a fake back gound in back of them and all the stars had to remember was to turn the steering wheels once in a while. Such as Hollywood stardom and lack of care in editing that they were as likely as not to turn the wheel in the wrong direction than the road in the background would indicate they shoud turn it. B. there was a real star behind the wheel at speed. Steve put an end to all of of the fake stuff. Never again would an audiance be fooled by the fakeness (until the 1990's when computer generated chase scenes would take over.) So 1968 - 1990 or so was the golden age for car chase scenes - real cars on real roads at real speeds going real fast and with the very occasional real star behind the wheel (Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner). Now we come to Steve though. He was a real motor cycle racer - he also raced a Porsche 917 at Le Mans and made the movie Le Mans which is the best racing movie ever made (Grand Prix with James Garner the second best. So he was the genuine article and according to docmentaries that I have seen hated it when the movie sudios would make him accept a stunt double - he was too valuable to risk according to them, not to Steve. The best scene in the chase sequence has Steve missing a turn up a hill and smoking the tire (as apposed to tires - no posi traction) up the hill. According to the documantry, this was a mistake. Steve was actually dri
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Fri, Jul 24 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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Belle Cora
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2026-07-03 07:36 |
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Bullitt
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but …
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but did not seem like such a big deal at the time. There were lots of movies before it with chase scenes. The thing that changed Hollywood for the next 25 years or so was that : A. the cars were filmed at real speed - 100 mph+. Before this they either speeded up the cameras and did not have other cars in the scene so it looked like the car was going fast although it was not or they had the "stars" in a car on the set and a fake back gound in back of them and all the stars had to remember was to turn the steering wheels once in a while. Such as Hollywood stardom and lack of care in editing that they were as likely as not to turn the wheel in the wrong direction than the road in the background would indicate they shoud turn it. B. there was a real star behind the wheel at speed. Steve put an end to all of of the fake stuff. Never again would an audiance be fooled by the fakeness (until the 1990's when computer generated chase scenes would take over.) So 1968 - 1990 or so was the golden age for car chase scenes - real cars on real roads at real speeds going real fast and with the very occasional real star behind the wheel (Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner). Now we come to Steve though. He was a real motor cycle racer - he also raced a Porsche 917 at Le Mans and made the movie Le Mans which is the best racing movie ever made (Grand Prix with James Garner the second best. So he was the genuine article and according to docmentaries that I have seen hated it when the movie sudios would make him accept a stunt double - he was too valuable to risk according to them, not to Steve. The best scene in the chase sequence has Steve missing a turn up a hill and smoking the tire (as apposed to tires - no posi traction) up the hill. According to the documantry, this was a mistake. Steve was actually dri
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Sat, Jul 25 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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film
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Belle Cora
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2026-07-03 07:36 |
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Bullitt
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but …
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but did not seem like such a big deal at the time. There were lots of movies before it with chase scenes. The thing that changed Hollywood for the next 25 years or so was that : A. the cars were filmed at real speed - 100 mph+. Before this they either speeded up the cameras and did not have other cars in the scene so it looked like the car was going fast although it was not or they had the "stars" in a car on the set and a fake back gound in back of them and all the stars had to remember was to turn the steering wheels once in a while. Such as Hollywood stardom and lack of care in editing that they were as likely as not to turn the wheel in the wrong direction than the road in the background would indicate they shoud turn it. B. there was a real star behind the wheel at speed. Steve put an end to all of of the fake stuff. Never again would an audiance be fooled by the fakeness (until the 1990's when computer generated chase scenes would take over.) So 1968 - 1990 or so was the golden age for car chase scenes - real cars on real roads at real speeds going real fast and with the very occasional real star behind the wheel (Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner). Now we come to Steve though. He was a real motor cycle racer - he also raced a Porsche 917 at Le Mans and made the movie Le Mans which is the best racing movie ever made (Grand Prix with James Garner the second best. So he was the genuine article and according to docmentaries that I have seen hated it when the movie sudios would make him accept a stunt double - he was too valuable to risk according to them, not to Steve. The best scene in the chase sequence has Steve missing a turn up a hill and smoking the tire (as apposed to tires - no posi traction) up the hill. According to the documantry, this was a mistake. Steve was actually dri
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Sun, Jul 26 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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film
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Belle Cora
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2026-07-03 07:36 |
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Bullitt
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but …
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but did not seem like such a big deal at the time. There were lots of movies before it with chase scenes. The thing that changed Hollywood for the next 25 years or so was that : A. the cars were filmed at real speed - 100 mph+. Before this they either speeded up the cameras and did not have other cars in the scene so it looked like the car was going fast although it was not or they had the "stars" in a car on the set and a fake back gound in back of them and all the stars had to remember was to turn the steering wheels once in a while. Such as Hollywood stardom and lack of care in editing that they were as likely as not to turn the wheel in the wrong direction than the road in the background would indicate they shoud turn it. B. there was a real star behind the wheel at speed. Steve put an end to all of of the fake stuff. Never again would an audiance be fooled by the fakeness (until the 1990's when computer generated chase scenes would take over.) So 1968 - 1990 or so was the golden age for car chase scenes - real cars on real roads at real speeds going real fast and with the very occasional real star behind the wheel (Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner). Now we come to Steve though. He was a real motor cycle racer - he also raced a Porsche 917 at Le Mans and made the movie Le Mans which is the best racing movie ever made (Grand Prix with James Garner the second best. So he was the genuine article and according to docmentaries that I have seen hated it when the movie sudios would make him accept a stunt double - he was too valuable to risk according to them, not to Steve. The best scene in the chase sequence has Steve missing a turn up a hill and smoking the tire (as apposed to tires - no posi traction) up the hill. According to the documantry, this was a mistake. Steve was actually dri
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Wed, Jul 29 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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film
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Belle Cora
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2026-07-03 07:36 |
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Bullitt
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but …
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but did not seem like such a big deal at the time. There were lots of movies before it with chase scenes. The thing that changed Hollywood for the next 25 years or so was that : A. the cars were filmed at real speed - 100 mph+. Before this they either speeded up the cameras and did not have other cars in the scene so it looked like the car was going fast although it was not or they had the "stars" in a car on the set and a fake back gound in back of them and all the stars had to remember was to turn the steering wheels once in a while. Such as Hollywood stardom and lack of care in editing that they were as likely as not to turn the wheel in the wrong direction than the road in the background would indicate they shoud turn it. B. there was a real star behind the wheel at speed. Steve put an end to all of of the fake stuff. Never again would an audiance be fooled by the fakeness (until the 1990's when computer generated chase scenes would take over.) So 1968 - 1990 or so was the golden age for car chase scenes - real cars on real roads at real speeds going real fast and with the very occasional real star behind the wheel (Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner). Now we come to Steve though. He was a real motor cycle racer - he also raced a Porsche 917 at Le Mans and made the movie Le Mans which is the best racing movie ever made (Grand Prix with James Garner the second best. So he was the genuine article and according to docmentaries that I have seen hated it when the movie sudios would make him accept a stunt double - he was too valuable to risk according to them, not to Steve. The best scene in the chase sequence has Steve missing a turn up a hill and smoking the tire (as apposed to tires - no posi traction) up the hill. According to the documantry, this was a mistake. Steve was actually dri
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Thu, Jul 30 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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film
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Belle Cora
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2026-07-03 07:36 |
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6
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Bullitt
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but …
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but did not seem like such a big deal at the time. There were lots of movies before it with chase scenes. The thing that changed Hollywood for the next 25 years or so was that : A. the cars were filmed at real speed - 100 mph+. Before this they either speeded up the cameras and did not have other cars in the scene so it looked like the car was going fast although it was not or they had the "stars" in a car on the set and a fake back gound in back of them and all the stars had to remember was to turn the steering wheels once in a while. Such as Hollywood stardom and lack of care in editing that they were as likely as not to turn the wheel in the wrong direction than the road in the background would indicate they shoud turn it. B. there was a real star behind the wheel at speed. Steve put an end to all of of the fake stuff. Never again would an audiance be fooled by the fakeness (until the 1990's when computer generated chase scenes would take over.) So 1968 - 1990 or so was the golden age for car chase scenes - real cars on real roads at real speeds going real fast and with the very occasional real star behind the wheel (Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner). Now we come to Steve though. He was a real motor cycle racer - he also raced a Porsche 917 at Le Mans and made the movie Le Mans which is the best racing movie ever made (Grand Prix with James Garner the second best. So he was the genuine article and according to docmentaries that I have seen hated it when the movie sudios would make him accept a stunt double - he was too valuable to risk according to them, not to Steve. The best scene in the chase sequence has Steve missing a turn up a hill and smoking the tire (as apposed to tires - no posi traction) up the hill. According to the documantry, this was a mistake. Steve was actually dri
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Fri, Jul 31 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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film
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Belle Cora
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2026-07-03 07:36 |
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Bullitt
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but …
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but did not seem like such a big deal at the time. There were lots of movies before it with chase scenes. The thing that changed Hollywood for the next 25 years or so was that : A. the cars were filmed at real speed - 100 mph+. Before this they either speeded up the cameras and did not have other cars in the scene so it looked like the car was going fast although it was not or they had the "stars" in a car on the set and a fake back gound in back of them and all the stars had to remember was to turn the steering wheels once in a while. Such as Hollywood stardom and lack of care in editing that they were as likely as not to turn the wheel in the wrong direction than the road in the background would indicate they shoud turn it. B. there was a real star behind the wheel at speed. Steve put an end to all of of the fake stuff. Never again would an audiance be fooled by the fakeness (until the 1990's when computer generated chase scenes would take over.) So 1968 - 1990 or so was the golden age for car chase scenes - real cars on real roads at real speeds going real fast and with the very occasional real star behind the wheel (Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner). Now we come to Steve though. He was a real motor cycle racer - he also raced a Porsche 917 at Le Mans and made the movie Le Mans which is the best racing movie ever made (Grand Prix with James Garner the second best. So he was the genuine article and according to docmentaries that I have seen hated it when the movie sudios would make him accept a stunt double - he was too valuable to risk according to them, not to Steve. The best scene in the chase sequence has Steve missing a turn up a hill and smoking the tire (as apposed to tires - no posi traction) up the hill. According to the documantry, this was a mistake. Steve was actually dri
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Sat, Aug 1 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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film
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Belle Cora
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2026-07-03 07:36 |
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Bullitt
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but …
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I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but did not seem like such a big deal at the time. There were lots of movies before it with chase scenes. The thing that changed Hollywood for the next 25 years or so was that : A. the cars were filmed at real speed - 100 mph+. Before this they either speeded up the cameras and did not have other cars in the scene so it looked like the car was going fast although it was not or they had the "stars" in a car on the set and a fake back gound in back of them and all the stars had to remember was to turn the steering wheels once in a while. Such as Hollywood stardom and lack of care in editing that they were as likely as not to turn the wheel in the wrong direction than the road in the background would indicate they shoud turn it. B. there was a real star behind the wheel at speed. Steve put an end to all of of the fake stuff. Never again would an audiance be fooled by the fakeness (until the 1990's when computer generated chase scenes would take over.) So 1968 - 1990 or so was the golden age for car chase scenes - real cars on real roads at real speeds going real fast and with the very occasional real star behind the wheel (Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner). Now we come to Steve though. He was a real motor cycle racer - he also raced a Porsche 917 at Le Mans and made the movie Le Mans which is the best racing movie ever made (Grand Prix with James Garner the second best. So he was the genuine article and according to docmentaries that I have seen hated it when the movie sudios would make him accept a stunt double - he was too valuable to risk according to them, not to Steve. The best scene in the chase sequence has Steve missing a turn up a hill and smoking the tire (as apposed to tires - no posi traction) up the hill. According to the documantry, this was a mistake. Steve was actually dri
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Sun, Aug 2 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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Belle Cora
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2026-07-03 07:36 |
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Don Bosco
After ordination, Bosco went to Turin, where Cafasso headed the Institute of Saint Francis of Assisi, which provided higher education for the diocesan priests. Turin then had a pop…
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After ordination, Bosco went to Turin, where Cafasso headed the Institute of Saint Francis of Assisi, which provided higher education for the diocesan priests. Turin then had a population of 117,000 inhabitants. The city reflected the effects of industrialization and urbanization. Numerous poor families lived in the slums of the city and had come from the countryside in search of a better life. During his studies, Bosco accompanied Cafasso in visiting the prisons and became concerned regarding the recidivism of young offenders. He began to work with orphaned and abandoned boys, teaching them catechism and helping them find work. [ 29 ] Upon completion of his studies, Cafasso secured for Bosco an appointment as almoner of the Rifugio (Refuge), a girls' boarding school founded in Turin by the Marchioness Giulia di Barolo, so that he could remain in Turin. [ 30 ] His other ministries included visiting prisoners, teaching catechism , and helping out at many country parishes.
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Tue, Aug 18 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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community
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Belle Cora
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Jim & Artie Mitchell
Since the beginning of the sexual liberation movement in the Western world, which coincided with second-wave feminism and the women's liberation movement initiated in the early 196…
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Since the beginning of the sexual liberation movement in the Western world, which coincided with second-wave feminism and the women's liberation movement initiated in the early 1960s, [ 60 ] [ 61 ] new religious movements and alternative spiritualities such as Modern Paganism and the New Age began to grow and spread across the globe alongside their intersection with the sexual liberation movement and the counterculture of the 1960s , [ 60 ] [ 61 ] and exhibited characteristic features, such as the embrace of alternative lifestyles , unconventional dress, rejection of Abrahamic religions and their conservative social mores , use of cannabis and other recreational drugs , relaxed attitude, sarcastic humble or self-imposed poverty, and laissez-faire sexual behavior . [ 60 ] [ 61 ] The sexual liberation movement was aided by feminist ideologues in their mutual struggle to challenge traditional ideas regarding female sexuality , male sexuality , and queer sexuality. [ 61 ] Elimination of undue favorable bias towards men and objectification of women, as well as support for women's right to choose their sexual partners free of outside interference or societal judgment, were three of the main goals associated with sexual liberation from the feminist perspective. [ 61 ] Since during the early stages of feminism, women's liberation was often equated with sexual liberation rather than associated with it. Many feminist thinkers believed that assertion of the primacy of sexuality would be a major step towards the ultimate goal of women's liberation, thus women were urged to initiate sexual advances, enjoy sex and experiment with new forms of sexuality. [ 62 ]
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Sun, Sep 20 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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other
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Belle Cora
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Winter Solstice
Accounts do not survive but Greek astronomers must have used an approximation method based on interpolation, which is still used by some amateurs. This method consists of recording…
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Accounts do not survive but Greek astronomers must have used an approximation method based on interpolation, which is still used by some amateurs. This method consists of recording the declination angle at noon during some days before and after the solstice, trying to find two separate days with the same declination. When those two days are found, the halfway time between both noons is estimated solstice time. An interval of 45 days has been postulated as the best one to achieve up to a quarter-day precision, in the solstice determination. [ 39 ] In 2012, the journal DIO found that accuracy of one or two hours with balanced errors can be attained by observing the Sun's equal altitudes about S = twenty degrees (or d = about 20 days) before and after the summer solstice because the average of the two times will be early by q arc minutes where q is (πe cosA)/3 times the square of S in degrees (e = earth orbit eccentricity, A = earth's perihelion or Sun's apogee), and the noise in the result will be about 41 hours divided by d if the eye's sharpness is taken as one arc minute.
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Sun, Dec 20 · See venue
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Belle Cora
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North Beach
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community
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Belle Cora
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2026-07-03 07:36 |