Masking a sprawling 1,500 miles (2,400 km) alongside the Saint Laurence River from Quebec metropolis to Montreal and again, the Tour du St-Laurent was as soon as the longest novice bike race on the planet. The movie 60 Cycles (1965) from the French-Canadian filmmaker Jean-Claude Labreque tracks scenes from the eleventh and penultimate operating of this ‘Tour of New France’ in 1964. Setting the motion to the sounds of a cool surf-rock-infused soundtrack, Labreque renders the competitors fairly secondary to the mesmerising sights of our bodies and bikes in movement towards the Gaspé countryside. With its fashionable motion and kinetic enhancing, this brief movie would notably go on to encourage the Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas.
