Where can I watch Connections show? What's the best place? Any episode recommendations?
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)
#182Where can I watch Connections show? What's the best place? Any episode recommendations?
archive.org has all episodes
Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
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I'm not seeing it. Starting at "if you mix those gasses..." to after "...you get that." seems to be a single shot. Just a reminder, we didn't have AI editing tools at the time. Traditional editing tools of the time would probably be obvious. Maybe you're responding to the focus change where the camera operator adjusts the focal plane from Burke to the rocket in the distance. That focus change makes me certain the sho…
It's really, really obvious. Watch the bit from 43 to 45 seconds in to the video on the article.
The final shot of the sequence runs from about :44 to 1:06. I'm talking about the bit that STARTS at :44, after the cut. I think you're talking about the sequence before the SHOT.
Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
#184reminds me of "Scene 113: The Bridge" in the show The Franchise when they're on location in Armenia. I won't spoil the show/episode but let's just say it doesn't go as well as the shot highlighted here.
Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
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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've always thought he just kind of slurred over the "a", like you'd do in casual speech, it came out like "f'r'a man". In the recording there's a tiny slight bit of a vowel after the "r" sound. I don't think he blew the line, just didn't speak it clearly.
Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
#186Personally I put the Jonnie Walker The Man Who Walked Around The World ad with Robert Carlyle as the greatest one take shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ6aiVg2qVk
Wow that was very well done!
Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
#187This 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…
Reminds me of the 3 minute rube Goldberg machine in "this too shall pass" by Ok Go. https://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w?si=DBSqRMciDY41QPzD I thought they really did it all in one cut but there are at least two. Still a great music video and song.
A number of their music videos are quite creative:
* in a zero-G plane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co
* one-take (?) on electric unicycles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU
* 4.2s real-time scene with the footage slowed down to 4 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvW61K2s0tA
* Chevrolet-sponsored video where they use a moving car as an instrument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c
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Yes, but the YouTube ed channels are such a treasure in and of itself. We had the “tech” to produce content like this for almost a century, but it took the Internet and democratization of content creation to come up with gems like smarter every day, veritasium, extra history, etc My fear is that this is also being reshaped with ai, mostly for good now but I feel like the personal touch and passion of these creators i…
Any particular recommendations? I’ve been meaning to queue some up to have in the background playing when the kids are around hoping to stumble across something that that might pique their interests
Not GP but here are mine, perhaps not all work for the kids and might require some attention but:
AlphaPhoenix - https://www.youtube.com/@AlphaPhoenixChannel - Probably needs no introduction to HN, but some great educational physics videos.
Huygens Optics - https://www.youtube.com/@HuygensOptics - Retired optics guy, lots of interesting stuff on making lenses and other optics phenomena and physics.
Dr. Jorge S. Diaz - https://www.youtube.com/@jkzero - Really good videos on the early history of quantum mechanics and related physics around that time.
Idealized Science Institute - https://www.youtube.com/@idealizedscience -Educational non-profit aimed at helping teachers and students, mostly physics. Typically featuring great physical demonstrations.
Tasting History - https://www.youtube.com/@TastingHistory - Recreates historical dishes, as well as serving interesting history about or surrounding the dishes.
Brian Lohnes - https://www.youtube.com/@brianlohnes3079 - Weird and fascinating history tidbits from mostly motorsports like drag racing.
Marshall Bruner - https://www.youtube.com/@MarshallBrunerRF - Accessible videos explaining radar and RF concepts.
ProjectsInFlight - https://www.youtube.com/@projectsinflight - Has a few amazing videos explaining how semiconductors work, also how to make them at home.
Modern History TV - https://www.youtube.com/@ModernKnight - Lots of interesting videos about the middle ages in Europe, how people lived their lives as peasants or knights etc.
Extractions&Ire - https://www.youtube.com/@ExtractionsAndIre - Fun guy from down under making compounds for his main channel Explosions&Fire in his shed.
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NOT just you. I feel it has gotten worse the past 10 years. I feel it myself, I am dumbed down too. Having trouble even formulating this as I never type formally anymore. Our state TV SVT buys in documentaries from BBC, Showtime, PBS and some of their own production. Some of their own are still good. The BBC ones are absolute garbage dumbed down now. The world the aristocrats warned about in the 60s and 70s are here…
What are 2 or 3 feature length documentaries you watched produced in the last 5 years? I’m curious what you’re watching and what made them so bad. I saw several excellent ones over the last few years. They’re out there and they’re not obscure IMO.
> What are 2 or 3 feature length documentaries you watched produced in the last 5 years?
Since GP mentioned TV, I suspect the ones he's complaining about are the ones I complained about: one-hour TV documentary-style shows like BBC Horizon or PBS Nova.
The ones I've seen from recent years contain interesting stuff, but the presentation is too rapid, to flashy, too repetitive yet not enough time to let things settle.
Feature length documentaries are better I agree.
Re: The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
#190I love connections but holy crap can people just not spot an edit? It's a cool shot but the bit he had to time is short and pretty simple.