I guess I'll link this excellent NYT article here aswell:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/space/50-years-later-celebrating-john-glenns-great-feat.html?hp
Quote from: Silmfeanor on 02/13/2012 07:14 pmI guess I'll link this excellent NYT article here aswell:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/space/50-years-later-celebrating-john-glenns-great-feat.html?hpThe NYT piece says a lot in the fact that it says almost nothing about the flight itself. That would require research- something the NYT is unable to do. I can only hope that the video is better.
The NYT piece says a lot in the fact that it says almost nothing about the flight itself. That would require research- something the NYT is unable to do. I can only hope that the video is better.
With so much “original source” archival footage available my only question is why so short? Surely it could have been made to be an hour long for such an important flight. Other than that Sen. Glenn remains delightfully youthful and full of vigor.
With so much actual R7/ Vostok launcher footage floating around out there, they kept showing Soyuz launches to illustrate the Sputnik and Vostok era... odd. But I really liked how they illustrated John Glenn's life, that part was very well done.
The use of incorrect Soviet footage shows that whoever made the film is clearly lazy and doesn't care two hoots for accuracy.
Gotcha. I guess I don't see how those clips mean that they didn't care about accuracy.
This was on last night and I taped it but have only seen a couple of minutes. It is only about 30 minutes long. It looks like they did great transfers of original footage to HD (although some of that footage was originally shot in 16mm, so it is grainy). However, some of the contemporary interviews looked washed out (over exposed). I was also somewhat disappointed to see Senator Nelson, which smacks of political patronage (i.e. NASA does a "documentary" that coincidentally includes one of its biggest political supporters).
And to identify him as an astronaut is IMO disgusting.
Quote from: Beemer on 02/19/2012 12:05 amAnd to identify him as an astronaut is IMO disgusting.Why?