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This is the single greatest shot filmed in television history. It's completely real, it's NOT a green-screen. One chance, and if James Burke had missed, there would have been no chance of a re-shoot.

 

 

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Burke had some great historical series. It's too bad that so many docuseries were shot on video and not film, so they're mostly all low rez....

 

 

Given that he went all over the world for material I think it was a lot easier to bring tapes than film since if there was a mishap/blooper then just rewind the tape and redo. Would save money and weight.

 

 

Today it would have been micro SDs on a 4k GoPro - and with a lot higher image quality. However it's tough to come up with the same content quality.

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Fifty years ago, April 20, 1972, Apollo 16's lunar module Orion touched down on the Moon's near side in the south-central Descartes Highlands. While astronaut Ken Mattingly orbited overhead in Casper the friendly command and service module the Orion brought John Young and Charles Duke to the lunar surface. The pair would spend nearly three days on the Moon. Constructed from images (AS16-117-18814 to AS16-117-18820) taken near the end of their third and final surface excursion this panoramic view puts the lunar module in the distance toward the left. Their electric lunar roving vehicle in the foreground, Duke is operating the camera while Young aims the high gain communications antenna skyward, toward planet Earth.

 

 

 

 

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220421.html

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This photo was taken nearly 15 kilometers above the Irish Sea in April 1985.

 

It is the supersonic commercial plane 'Concorde', flying at a speed of Mach 2, that is, 2 times the speed of sound or approximately 2170 miles per hour.

 

A small fighter plane approached him in flight and accompanied him for 4 minutes at the same speed, and then the pilot of the fighter took the picture, being the only image of the 'Concorde' flying at such speed until today.

 

In the background the Sun shining, and at that height the sky already takes on a darker hue even in broad daylight, due to the decrease in air density.

 

You can even see the curvature of the Earth at that height.

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