"LE MANS 1955 - Deadly competition" a beautiful short film about the tragedy of the 1955 Lemans

I couldn't find this on the forum yet. 

 

I thought it was really beautifully done. 

Wow, that's amazing! Times have changed... Life was so much cheaper in those days.

That's pretty powerful for a 15 minute animated short.

Good story.  I'd always heard about this then I watched this short movie.  Then I found some youtube vids.  Then I read some really good articles in Hemmings and on Jalopnik.  Saddest event in motor racing  for sure.

Nice.  But a little confusing on some major details.

Clearly, the movie is mostly about John Fitch and Alfred Neubauer.  

But being a French film, the race start should have opened with Le Marseillaise instead of  Il Canto degli Italiani.  That one is pretty obvious.

The Italian thing continues with Fitch's helmet, which is shown with an Italian flag on it, when he's an American.  Very minor.

And then the time of the crash was 6:20pm, which is very much daylight at LeMans near the longest day of the year.  Makes it dramatic that it was at night, I suppose.   But all of the news film that is easy to find shows the reality that it happened in the day.  The eventual withdrawl from the race did happen at near midnight, once company directors in Stuttgart contacted Neubauer to withdrawal. 

Touching short, for sure.

When I was 9 I got a home video from Toys 'R Us called "Car Wars". I'm not sure TRU should have been keeping this tape around since it had footage of the engine from this incident tearing through the crowd and the chaos that ensued afterward. It also had the big Group B crash from Spain where the spectators were mowed down, the fatal Stefan Beloff accident at Eau Rouge, Indianapolis methanol fires from the '70s and severely injured people being treated in the Paris-Dakar truck race.

just watched this last night and very neat little video.