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NASA Aeronautics And Space Report No.28 (1966)
🕑 Added 2021-11-01 14:41:29 +0000 UTCThis short is color by fade, but it still holds some gems from the space news of 1966, intended for viewing in schools. A look at the mission of Lunar Orbiter 3 and Surveyor 1, and an interesting glimpse into the techniques of casting models for supersonic wind tunnel testing. This was transferred from my own 16mm archive print using my Eiki Telecine. The Eiki has a 5 Blade Shutter that projects a 24fps print at 30 frames per second for a flickerless NTSC transfer. A special diffusion plate eliminates the 'hot spot' of the projector, and the sound is pulled right from the optical track. Enjoy!
Comments
Ymir the Frost Giant
Monty Python at school - that must have been a progressive place! I don't remember seeing any films at our UK school. Best I can come up with is our art teacher used to show off the cover of his Tubular Bells LP and play it during art lessons. In a later year, our English lessons were - first period: listen to one side of a Bruce Springsteen LP (he must have released a lot cos this seemed to last all year); second period: discuss his lyrics.
Aaron Nadler
sans the weight of beryllium that model has estes rocket written all over it. I wonder if the molds for the wax still exist.
Matt Wietlispach
I guess in the 70s NASA stopped sending films to schools. The only thing I remember from films at school is the standard countdown, which was typically more interesting the all the content in front of it.
John Russell
Good to see that they were showing these films to school children in America. Perhaps they encouraged some to take up engineering. All I can remember in the UK is us being shown feature films e.g. Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the mid 1970s for some reason! I looked up color fade as I wasn't sure what actually happened to old films. I had something similar happen to some old family photos taken on an instant polaroid camera many decades ago. I managed to scan them into my computer and some photo manipulation software corrected everything.
Michael Aichlmayr
Very cool. I remember watching some of these in school.
