Onboard with Fangio at Monaco Video

[echan]

These weren’t little GoPros hanging off of the Maestro’s Lancia. Each of these cameras had to be loaded with film, started up, and run a few laps. Then they had to do it again and again so that you don’t see the giant camera in the other angles. It’s easy to dismiss the complexity of these earlier onboard films when we can easily toss a half-dozen or more digital video cameras on a car at every possible angle. It’s part of what makes early onboard footage so precious.

Looking through the slow motion montages in this clip, I have to believe it was part of the inspiration for Saul Bass’s racing sequences in Grand Prix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9-BZ0Nb ... embedded#!

via Retro Formula 1

[Nathan Atkins]

Beautiful, he really was the Maestro, thanks for posting Ed!