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The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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Post by snypher »

hyperbovine wrote: post #138
hjkl0 wrote: post #87

This is my pet peeve. I don't know the show, but when I first watched this clip (under the title of "greatest shot on television") I totally bought in to the hype and thought it really was amazing. You start out just walking alongside him, and only slowly realize where you are and what is about to happen, and everything is perfectly timed and composed: he ends his walk, reaches the conclusion of his explanation, and…

Come now, he still managed to time the final walk scene to within <100ms of perfection. It's probably luck but still, you have to admire to feat.

You do realize he have recorded the walk at any point? The shot of the rocket launching could have been a month later.

Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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Post by globular-toast »

rayiner wrote: post #114
globular-toast wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is such a weird complaint. "The shot" is the one where he's standing in front of the blast off. Of course the shot before it is a different shot. Who cares?

It's not a "weird complaint" at all. The cut goes to the heart of why it's supposedly impressive. Because of the cut, all he had to do was say one sentence before the rocket lifts off (which is happening at a time that's known down to the second).

All Paul McCartney had to was write a sequence of words to a melody beginning with the word "Yesterday".

Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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Post by tantalor »

hjkl0 wrote: post #87

This is my pet peeve. I don't know the show, but when I first watched this clip (under the title of "greatest shot on television") I totally bought in to the hype and thought it really was amazing. You start out just walking alongside him, and only slowly realize where you are and what is about to happen, and everything is perfectly timed and composed: he ends his walk, reaches the conclusion of his explanation, and…

This is pointless quibbling.

Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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Post by hyperbovine »

snypher wrote: post #141
hyperbovine wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come now, he still managed to time the final walk scene to within <100ms of perfection. It's probably luck but still, you have to admire to feat.

You do realize he have recorded the walk at any point? The shot of the rocket launching could have been a month later.

What? I'm talking the final scene where he says "...that" and the thing immediately lights up. Absent a green screen, that's damn impressive.

Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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Post by simonh »

absynth wrote: post #121
tclancy wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that to be the end result of the pursuit of knowledge, creating something? There is the true dumbing down, insisting on a vague kind of productivity as the point of life.

Why would doing something or taking action be dumbing down? You are bristling with something like anger but it has nothing to do with what I wrote. I'm off to go hiking. There are thousands of stars out there.

What will you make or do as a result of going hiking and looking at stars?

Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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Post by jarpschope »

RachelF wrote: post #4

The late 1970's were the golden age of documentaries: Connections, Cosmos, Civilization, The Ascent of Man and Attenborough's Life on Earth. Perhaps it's just me, but modern documentaries are rather dumbed down? As a side note: Quite ironic that he ends up pointing to a rocket propelled mostly by solid fuels.

I guess we now have Veritasium, Jonny Harris, and the art of the problem instead.

Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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Post by WalterBright »

dredmorbius wrote: post #139
inopinatus wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The press location is surely double-digit seconds sonically from the launch site. So the simultaneous launch rumble is also an edit.

The amount of sound creation in documentaries, particularly nature docus featuring long-lens shots of animals in the wild, is a whole 'nother domain of lying-to-tell-the-truth. The Conversation 's treatment (there are many others): "The animal sounds in most nature documentaries are made by humans – here’s how they do it and why it matters" (2024) https://theconversation.com/the-animal-sounds-in-most-nature... >. Bur…

I think Full Metal Jacket is the only war movie that correctly delays the sound of an explosion.

The sounds in combat footage of WW2 are all dubbed in, as the cameras did not record sound.

Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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Post by IAmBroom »

tantalor wrote: post #143
hjkl0 wrote: post #87

This is my pet peeve. I don't know the show, but when I first watched this clip (under the title of "greatest shot on television") I totally bought in to the hype and thought it really was amazing. You start out just walking alongside him, and only slowly realize where you are and what is about to happen, and everything is perfectly timed and composed: he ends his walk, reaches the conclusion of his explanation, and…

This is pointless quibbling.

Yes, you are on Hacker News. Ergo...

Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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Post by WalterBright »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #133
jleyank wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want a single, unedited shot, Neil’s ladder descent would be a candidate. If you didn’t think Stanley actually did it.

But he blew his line! He intended to say "That's one small step for a man", but he left out the "a".

I was never impressed by that line anyway. I would have said something trollish, which is why I never would have been selected as an astronut.

Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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Post by joshspankit »

hjkl0 wrote: post #87

This is my pet peeve. I don't know the show, but when I first watched this clip (under the title of "greatest shot on television") I totally bought in to the hype and thought it really was amazing. You start out just walking alongside him, and only slowly realize where you are and what is about to happen, and everything is perfectly timed and composed: he ends his walk, reaches the conclusion of his explanation, and…

What if we instead look at the last clip as “the one shot”

Personally I don’t think that takes anything away

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