To be honest, i think they actually green screened that launch and had him to a weatherman point and kept doing it until it got it right. Nevertheless the fact everyone thinks it is real, and it may be, but i highly doubt it. Proves it is an effective piece of cinematography.
@@SCARRIOR I guess it is a symptom of how easy it is to fake things nowadays that everyone suspects everything is fake. But back when this was made (70s?) good fakes were often harder to set up than the real thing. Also, Idt this launch was that big of a deal. Cape Canaveral used to launch something or another every few months, weeks, or days.
Just need to point out Werner Von Braun was a Nazi scientist guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He just so happened to be brilliant enough to ignore all of that so we could beat the USSR to the moon.
Not only was it perfectly timed for the flow of the sentence, but the timing was also perfect for the focus of the camera to shift since it doesn’t happen instantaneously
@@michaelfox2433 yes because line reading, the pressure of having one chance, knowledge of the exact focal speed and the timing of the subject to stop talking perfectly in time for that focal transition to happen and many other details are soooooooo easy. Stop being a contrarian and do something productive
@@michaelfox2433you’ve obviously never done anything in front of a camera. By your logic every movie should be shot in one take. Dozens of things could go wrong and they all went right. It’s ok to allow other people to be complimented for their good work. You don’t have to be a raincloud on their success because you think you’re smart.
I read somewhere that instead of a traditional audible countdown for this launch, Sam Jackson was commissioned to watch a live feed of this filming, and at the right moment simply speak over the comms. "Hold on to ya butts."
Probably they were timing the firing of the rocket to his broadcast inside mission control. It would be trivial because they would still need to retransmit the footage back home from the US and mission control was likely seeing it before that. If the weather was fine there would be no reason they could not delay the launch a few seconds or minutes either way to line up the launch with the end of his speech.
I remember this show in the 80s. It was called Connections. It was on a channel in Canada called The Knowledge Network" great show. There was nothing like it on TV for it's time.
No, it actually wasn't even slightly noteworthy. The rocket countdown is literally broadcast for everyone to hear so it wasn't even slightly well timed at all, it was inevitable.
Rocket launches are timed to the second, barring unexpected technical delays. So they "just" needed to have their own timing nailed down. The only real question is how many times the presenter and his cameraman practiced.
Each second has the same time in between so if you practice your line in combination with the aforementioned seconds, you get this shot. Your breakdown is inspiring.
You say that, but the Soviets had four Venus lander missions in a row where the lens caps failed to come off the camera, ruining the photographs. A fifth mission was ruined when the lens cap did come off, but landed exactly in the spot the soil test probe was located, so they ended up just testing the lens cap instead.
@@electrictroy2010 Yeah, and your life is a simulation, too. Get a job or stop talking to us NPCs. It's not making you any worthier in the eyes of the Creators to be doing something so unproductive.
I remember Connections vividly. One of the best science and technology series ever made. The chain of seemingly unrelated events he depicted in each episode always led to a surprising modern endpoint. Always an apotheosis of how "unimportant" science is often unrecognized at the time until some distant point in time.
@@luked2679 are you one of those moon landing deniers? I can prove to you it's perfectly possible if you want. It doesn't take a degree to Google formulas and understand the mathematics behind a rockets capability to reach the moon.
Maybe it was faked, and the focus change hid the shift to fake animated footage, and he was in on it, and the whole show was a setup to reinforce the idea that human space travel is real, instead of just a cash grab after orbiting satellites proved too cheap. Or maybe he was lucky
@@plr.5036 Maybe. But at the very least there was no synching in real life, it's an edited fake. But what if, still, the rocket launch was fake? What would that mean?
@@edsalt5281 before green screen people used to project videos on a screen behind people acting. So my question is, why did you immediately assume the tecnology we use now is the only one that ever existed?
That's because it goes against the natural order. No two daughters ever smile at the same time. You can't photograph what doesn't exist. Maybe try photoshop? :)
"Connections" went to air before I was born and remains one of my favourite TV shows of all time ... James Burke (the presenter here) is absolutely brilliant, and this show (if you can find it) is even more brilliant ... it explains some of the most interesting changes in human history, and predicts the effects of social media, remote home working via the internet, and tech companies using personal data to manipulate politics ... all from more than 40 years ago.
@@ChatGPT1111 James Burke was cleverer than the rest of us put together. Connections was a mixture of genius and a bit of weirdness. But un-missable. Must see if I can watch it again somewhere.
@@timg1246nnections was a wonderful example of how brilliant education of technical subjects can be with a motivated presenter. "Bueller. Buehler. Buehler." Zzzzzzz
Back in his house he was rehearsing this commentary while some other dude was doing a virtual countdown, only for this moment. He literally had one chance at this. Epic.
A great shot, and don’t miss the perfect focus pull that happens too. A well timed bit of dialog and a brilliant bit of camera work combine to make an awesome shot.
You can tell they had the timer behind scene, which is why he delayed one of his sentences just enough for the timing to land perfectly. That was amazing
that's very clever for him to time his pitch as you can hear the count down starts in the background, and also he allows himself much needed pause to absolutely sync the shot.. brilliant 👏
The possibility that he rehearsed the timing of his speech is just too far fetched, is it? This is what happens when movies are all cgi, you think nothing can be done with a computer putting it together.
Connections was one of my favorite all-time shows. Never failed to amaze and entertain me. James Burke was absolutely wonderful, and it helped me understand human history much more thoroughly.
One episode, the trigger effect, I think. Started with him at the world trade center and the topic was a complete permanent grid down. New York was considered a Technology trap with no goods locally produced and none able to come in.
"Connections" with James Burke is well worth looking up. Totally captivating. Starting in Episode 1, he works through history showing how that invention was only possible after this invention.
I had the honour of meeting James Burke when he was filming Connections in the English Peak District, where I worked at the time. I got to thank him for being one of the people who helped develop my interest in science. I studied geology at university several years before I met him. One of the production crew gave me a Connections t-shirt! Nice bloke to chat with.
I’ve watched Connections fairly recently. It’s nice to have a series where they get straight into the programme from the start without all the preamble i.e. the bit they show every week showing clips of what is coming up in the series, then clips of what is in this week’s episode and, for commercial channels, the “coming up” bit before every advert break (and sometimes even afterwards reminding us of what we’ve just seen before the break).
@@neilrichardson7454 We'll have to disagree. I don't put any blame of the the ridiculous BS of the 70,80, and 90's perpuatated by those mangey, flea ridden boomers.... at the feet of GEN X. If you are GEN X then just know... they did this to you. They canceled you before you ever got out of the gate. You were never meant to succeed. (Think affirmative action).
Connections is absolutely phenomenal. I remember watching it on DVDs ordered from Netflix with my dad back in the early 2000s. That first episode we watched with plow to the Atom Bomb is still fresh in my mind.
This show originally aired in the 1980s via the BBC. I can still remember as an 8 year old boy watching this show with my family after dinner. It was just an amazing TV show. Way ahead of it's time.
e Especially how a search for a solution often resulted in some completely different than planned. But it took a Genius to recognise the connection!!!!!
Oh yeah fosho. Nuthin Brit’s and Mericans love more than notsi’s. Do a short on one of the death squad notsi’s the Mericans installed after ww2 in South America. Probably not as cool of video but still a chance to brag about fookin notsi’s.
James Burke was my hero as a child. Connections got me into science. This shot was not edited because you couldn't get it that good in the 70's .I wonder if James Burke is still around?
I would get up really early, like 5am, when I was about 11 years old so I could watch Connections before school! It genuinely helped shape the way I see the world.
@@ZakZ8915 100%. Maybe if he trafficked a few hundred children, or supplied politicians with said children, he would've been given a Nobel Peace Prize.
Why because he spectated something that other amazingly intelligent people did? Give rewards to people that make these things happen, not the people who observe it.
Connections was one of my favorite TV shows growing up, Mr. Burke had a way of presenting information that made it stick because he made it interesting.
I rewatched the first series this year. As long as you understand it as something analogous to "World history 500BCE to 1975CE" and don't expect it to be prescient, the series is still almost as amazing as it was then. And in some sense, due to many amazing on-location scenes like the one here, it is better than it would be if filmed today.
Watching this series as a young man really had a great influence on me. It was way before the world of RUclips where we can easily learn about anything.
@@NxDoyle Well, they knew they had only one shot to make it work so they would have done it at least several to measure the timing exactly. Then the producer would have done a final countdown -- there's a giant digital clock on the field-- and cued Burke. And as I said, if they screwed it up you would never have seen it (except in outtakes).
@@randytaylor1258 This comment runs counter to the reasonable inference drawn from your first. You gave every indication that 'rehearsal followed by nothing' somehow detracts from the timing of the actual take. The key to rehearsing this would have been ensuring that the copy was written to a specified time and delivered at the same speed.
Развлечения
"Take two, everyone. Reset the rocket!"
Best show ever :)
To be honest, i think they actually green screened that launch and had him to a weatherman point and kept doing it until it got it right.
Nevertheless the fact everyone thinks it is real, and it may be, but i highly doubt it. Proves it is an effective piece of cinematography.
Perfect countdown of:
* "5, 4, 3, 2, ..."*
* Point the rocket*
@@SCARRIOR ok kid, maybe go read an official report
this was true and it was clocked with the launch to obtain an amazing shot
@@SCARRIOR there were no green screens back then.
@@SCARRIOR I guess it is a symptom of how easy it is to fake things nowadays that everyone suspects everything is fake. But back when this was made (70s?) good fakes were often harder to set up than the real thing.
Also, Idt this launch was that big of a deal. Cape Canaveral used to launch something or another every few months, weeks, or days.
“Please tell me you got that.”
“Uhh…I did and I didn’t.”
What? Moscow?
??
Die hard
I want to like but that would wreck your 404. ✔
Astronaut: "He's pointing, that's the signal, light it up Jimmy."
I’m weak 😂
mrbeast
Jimmy: allahu akbarrrr
Just need to point out Werner Von Braun was a Nazi scientist guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He just so happened to be brilliant enough to ignore all of that so we could beat the USSR to the moon.
😂
I'm willing to bet that this is Tom Scott's real father.
I see it lmao
He also has a classy single color shirt
This was exactly my first thought
I am at a rocket launch platform
Best comment! 🤣😆
"Destination: the Moon"
Me: Cool
"or Moscow"
Me: *_nervous sweating_*
Yea Moscow or Peking was a little much lol
@@bizmarck731 It was 1978. The possibility was very real to some of us back then. I was born on a SAC base, where my dad flew bombers.
🇷🇺 Should have happened months ago…😡
@@bizmarck731 BTW, nobody steps to The Biz.
@@ajlifesolutions7072 What? The Russians having their ass handed to them? I thoroughly agree.
Not only was it perfectly timed for the flow of the sentence, but the timing was also perfect for the focus of the camera to shift since it doesn’t happen instantaneously
Agree! Not enough credit is given to the camera crew for that phenomenal shot
There's nothing phenomenal or even slightly difficult here,....they literally just had to follow the bloody countdown for Christ sake.
@@michaelfox2433 yes because line reading, the pressure of having one chance, knowledge of the exact focal speed and the timing of the subject to stop talking perfectly in time for that focal transition to happen and many other details are soooooooo easy. Stop being a contrarian and do something productive
@@QuintonMurdock I will when you understand it was a simple shot that anyone with a camera and a microphone could have pulled off with zero effort.
@@michaelfox2433you’ve obviously never done anything in front of a camera. By your logic every movie should be shot in one take. Dozens of things could go wrong and they all went right. It’s ok to allow other people to be complimented for their good work. You don’t have to be a raincloud on their success because you think you’re smart.
Bro is like a villain explaining his intentions before killing millions
ONE MILLION LIVES
SALVATION
You should look up where von Braun worked, before he joined NASA…
My exact comment he def is a villan 🤣🤣🤣@@malcomx1924
That was the chillest, most laid back, perfect timing, I’ve ever seen! 😂
“Oops… *I forgot to press record, can we redo that shot please?”*
The expense 🥲
Impossible im afraid
If he recorded just launch not him then green screen could work
"Ofcourse we can. $4,1 billion is the average estimated expense, per launch"
Then you wouldnt be able to even comment cause it woundt exist
Legend has it that they skipped the countdown and used his pointing finger instead for launch.
It ignited before that though
@@aaronsmith4940they released the parking brake
@@bendynoodlecuminbitch4547 they forget the crackers
😂😊
I read somewhere that instead of a traditional audible countdown for this launch, Sam Jackson was commissioned to watch a live feed of this filming, and at the right moment simply speak over the comms. "Hold on to ya butts."
BBC Connections to this day is the best documentary series I've ever seen.
Cameraman: "Sorry there was a plane or something in the shot, can we run that back?"
"I forgot to hit record" haha
You know production was sweating balls doing that scene
PROJECTION SCREEN. He’s just standing in front of a pre-recorded movie of an old launch
.
@@electrictroy2010 nein
@@electrictroy2010 waste of space
@@electrictroy2010 There's no point in doing that when you can easily time it so that it launches when you point.
Probably they were timing the firing of the rocket to his broadcast inside mission control.
It would be trivial because they would still need to retransmit the footage back home from the US and mission control was likely seeing it before that.
If the weather was fine there would be no reason they could not delay the launch a few seconds or minutes either way to line up the launch with the end of his speech.
"I aim for the stars, but keep hitting london" - werner von braun
Operation Paperclip was fundamental for the creation of Never A Straight Answer.
POV :- you're a statistic...
Dam these workers work like I forced them to!
I did Nazi that joke coming
@@Palaemon907 😂😂🤭
I'm glad he clarified about from where the dude released them gases
😂
I remember this show in the 80s. It was called Connections. It was on a channel in Canada called The Knowledge Network" great show. There was nothing like it on TV for it's time.
100% one of the best timed shots of all times.
No, it actually wasn't even slightly noteworthy. The rocket countdown is literally broadcast for everyone to hear so it wasn't even slightly well timed at all, it was inevitable.
@@michaelfox2433 no.... actually it was timed perfectly. That was luck.
@@E-Man1313 Right,...the countdown that everybody could hear had absolutely nothing to do with it,...🤦
@@michaelfox2433 no. not alone it doesn't .
You are only half right.
@@michaelfox2433 remember real life doesn't run on movie magic.
"Once ze rockets go up, who cares vhere zey come down. That's not my department, says Verner Von Braun." -Tom Lehrer
Verner von nazi.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage Yes, he was. But Tom Lehrer was a very funny American music composer
@@rickpontificates3406 no arguments there.👍
Ik versteh ken Wort von dem was du sabbelst. Lispelst du?
Sound like your mum.
I’ve seen this many times, but it always amazes me that they got such perfect timing
Rocket launches are timed to the second, barring unexpected technical delays. So they "just" needed to have their own timing nailed down. The only real question is how many times the presenter and his cameraman practiced.
"Once they go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department" says Werner von Braun
This is such perfect timing, he didn’t speed up or slow down his talking nor did he take a long break, just straight up said you get that then boom
Theres a countdown, he timed his last line to match the countdown. It was a great touch
Each second has the same time in between so if you practice your line in combination with the aforementioned seconds, you get this shot. Your breakdown is inspiring.
There is a loud speaker counting it down and launches are scheduled well before time. I could do this on a smart phone
They timed his little speech beforehand.. it’s easy obviously
Maybe OP knew how he did it but is still admiring the perfect timing. Y’all talkin’ like he stoopid
I hope this dude got a raise after this.
The show is called Connections
I used to have it on VHS may be older but still very relevant. Hey EVERYBODY watch this series
"Sorry guys, I had the cover lenses on the camera"
You say that, but the Soviets had four Venus lander missions in a row where the lens caps failed to come off the camera, ruining the photographs.
A fifth mission was ruined when the lens cap did come off, but landed exactly in the spot the soil test probe was located, so they ended up just testing the lens cap instead.
@@drunkenhobo5039wow lmao
PROJECTION SCREEN. He’s just standing in front of a pre-recorded movie of an old launch
.
@@electrictroy2010 incorrect
cameras like that dont have covers.
This is where Tom Scott gets his video aesthetic
You're so right
PROJECTION SCREEN. He’s just standing in front of a pre-recorded movie of an old launch
.
@@electrictroy2010 Yeah, and your life is a simulation, too. Get a job or stop talking to us NPCs. It's not making you any worthier in the eyes of the Creators to be doing something so unproductive.
Underrated
@@electrictroy2010 who cares, still sick and looks great
Flawless presentation there from the BBC presenter 👏 lol
Connections was a fantastic show that taught the history of science and the links between discoveries. I miss it.
Connections was a brilliant series. One of the best ever made.
Used to watch that series. A very good program indeed.
Anyone know if it's online somewhere? I remember watching it as a kid and being completely fascinated
@@sarahmacintosh6449 It is. I showed it to my kids
I remember Connections vividly. One of the best science and technology series ever made. The chain of seemingly unrelated events he depicted in each episode always led to a surprising modern endpoint. Always an apotheosis of how "unimportant" science is often unrecognized at the time until some distant point in time.
The Day The Universe Changed, was I think, James Burke's best. BTW he should have a new series out in 2023.
I love the two alternate destinations he gave LOL
Because they have never been to the moon..
@@luked2679 are you one of those moon landing deniers? I can prove to you it's perfectly possible if you want. It doesn't take a degree to Google formulas and understand the mathematics behind a rockets capability to reach the moon.
@@chelo4197 google? Where is this google? Is that what they used?
@@chelo4197 what is this google? Is that how they got there? Is it good?
@@chelo4197 where can I get one of these googles?
Connections was one of my favorite shows!
James Burke's show was my favorite PBS show of all time.
As he points, looks and realizes his timing … he turns around to camera “holy crap I can’t believe that worked!”😮
lol true , id probably be pretty amazed myself lmao
Maybe it was faked, and the focus change hid the shift to fake animated footage, and he was in on it, and the whole show was a setup to reinforce the idea that human space travel is real, instead of just a cash grab after orbiting satellites proved too cheap.
Or maybe he was lucky
@@josephroach9793 The moment of launch was clocked, but the shot is real.
@@plr.5036 Maybe. But at the very least there was no synching in real life, it's an edited fake. But what if, still, the rocket launch was fake? What would that mean?
@@josephroach9793 It would mean you need to put down the bong.
This is cinematography at its finest. Imagine if the lens cap was on.
PROJECTION SCREEN. He’s just standing in front of a pre-recorded movie of an old launch
.
@@electrictroy2010 Source?
@@lolislayer1643 he’s not, there weren’t good enough greenscreens back then apparently
@@edsalt5281 oh i know, just reminding his raggedy a$$ not to misinform people
@@edsalt5281 before green screen people used to project videos on a screen behind people acting.
So my question is, why did you immediately assume the tecnology we use now is the only one that ever existed?
Connections was one of my favourite TV series of all time
And now we have Alec of Technology Connections!!! ❤
Connections was a great series.
And here's me complaining I can't snap a picture of the moment my two daughters are smiling at the same time.
That's because it goes against the natural order. No two daughters ever smile at the same time. You can't photograph what doesn't exist. Maybe try photoshop? :)
try to do countdown next time….
Maybe try blue screen like they did for this shot
same thing with my dogs
It never happens 😂😂😂
"Connections" went to air before I was born and remains one of my favourite TV shows of all time ... James Burke (the presenter here) is absolutely brilliant, and this show (if you can find it) is even more brilliant ... it explains some of the most interesting changes in human history, and predicts the effects of social media, remote home working via the internet, and tech companies using personal data to manipulate politics ... all from more than 40 years ago.
I'm glad you were able to find it.
I remember the series (got the book).
And he had a newer show that was quite similar called 'The Day the Universe Changed', also very good. I remember both like yesterday.
@@ChatGPT1111 James Burke was cleverer than the rest of us put together. Connections was a mixture of genius and a bit of weirdness. But un-missable.
Must see if I can watch it again somewhere.
@non " Take Five" is a Dave Brubeck
song with Paul Desmond on Alto sax.
@@timg1246nnections was a wonderful example of how brilliant education of technical subjects can be with a motivated presenter.
"Bueller. Buehler. Buehler." Zzzzzzz
James Burke, legend. Was famous for these kinds of shots :)
James Burke and Connections. Best ever TV, period!
On the first scene, I literally thought that the rocket lying down on its side was gonna explode
Me too
Same
The British series "Connections" with James Burke was fabulous. There were three series, 1978, 1994 and 1997, 40 total episodes.
One of if not the greatest educational television shows of all time.
@@TimothySielbeck educational, lol. NASA is bs, like Santa 👍
Aha I've never heard if it. Thanks for listing this. Is it on RUclips in full?
Best series ever. I learned more from this series than ALL of uninteresting high school
@@its_me_dave Wasn't talking about NASA.
James Burke was an amazing host, and Connections was an amazing series.
I LOVE this series: " Connections".
He looked stressed but held that together nicely
PROJECTION SCREEN. He’s just standing in front of a pre-recorded movie of an old launch
.
@@electrictroy2010 are you schizophrenic?
Back in his house he was rehearsing this commentary while some other dude was doing a virtual countdown, only for this moment. He literally had one chance at this. Epic.
I think you're right. they had a counter n rehearsed and rehearsed.
@@richardsanchez5444 indeed, proof skills come from imagination and exercise. Love him
A great shot, and don’t miss the perfect focus pull that happens too. A well timed bit of dialog and a brilliant bit of camera work combine to make an awesome shot.
Underrated comment. ^
and possibly a tad of editing😏🤷
It was perfection
I fell in love with that shot! Timing and packaged result….badass
The way the film is cut, is very important to this as well.
Finally a video that lives up to the title
Connections was seriously one of the best shows ever.
Meanwhile in Moscow
"you wanna go bro, I've got more"
And finished with perfect alliteration. We might never see anything like this again.
One of tv's greatest triumphs. Kudos to all involved.
James Burke, science history goat. Connections is brilliant.
You can tell they had the timer behind scene, which is why he delayed one of his sentences just enough for the timing to land perfectly. That was amazing
Still a nerve wrecking shoot. Imagine if he or cameraman messes up on the lest second. Im sweating just thinking about it
There’s literally a count down clock and announcement
that's very clever for him to time his pitch as you can hear the count down starts in the background, and also he allows himself much needed pause to absolutely sync the shot.. brilliant 👏
He's standing in front of a green screen ppl
The possibility that he rehearsed the timing of his speech is just too far fetched, is it? This is what happens when movies are all cgi, you think nothing can be done with a computer putting it together.
@@peytonmac1131 These people probably don't believe rocket technology is real anyway.
Simple- It's called video editing!
@@peytonmac1131yup, timed his words, knew exactly what words he needed to hit at specific times in the countdown.
Best timing ever! I remember watching this scene so many years ago. It’s a great documentary, by the way. It’s called “Connections”, by James Burke.
One of the greatest shows ever on PBS.
Connections was one of my favorite shows.
Thank you James Burke & Raymond Baxter and the entire Tomorrows World Team. It’s why I became an engineer…
Sure you are, Costanza 😆
They don’t make them like that any more….
Me too!
Lots of engineers and scientists in the UK can trace their story back to Tomorrow's World me included.
I'm Civil Engineer 😊
James Burke is an absolute champion.
James Burke made science interesting, something some teachers could learn from.
Connections was one of my favorite all-time shows. Never failed to amaze and entertain me. James Burke was absolutely wonderful, and it helped me understand human history much more thoroughly.
'IS' wonderful. He's still alive
One episode, the trigger effect, I think. Started with him at the world trade center and the topic was a complete permanent grid down. New York was considered a Technology trap with no goods locally produced and none able to come in.
"Connections" with James Burke is well worth looking up. Totally captivating. Starting in Episode 1, he works through history showing how that invention was only possible after this invention.
James Burke. One of my favourites from childhood. Connections was a great TV series and the book is good too.
Connections, one of the best BBC STEM Documentaries of the era, bar none.
This guy when I was young brought science alive for me! Brilliant man.
This guys voice was on so many TV shows, recognized it immediately.
And that WAS a well timed shot.
This series is probably a fair bit outdated by now, but god bless the producers and James Burke, because this series was a Classic. 'Connections'
I love James Burke!
Remember watching James Burke on Tomorrows’s World, like Attenborough does, he kept you glued to the tv as a kid!
The old school BBC presenters - I include Jacob Bronowski amongst them - were a class apart, as top-rate as it’s possible to get.
Brainwashed as a child, as we all were. As an adult, one can see that NASA was as legit as Santa. Merry saturnalia 👍
Do some research.
Tomorrow's World. I must look this up.
A lot of people won't realise that James is still going strong at a very healthy 86 years old.
I had the honour of meeting James Burke when he was filming Connections in the English Peak District, where I worked at the time. I got to thank him for being one of the people who helped develop my interest in science. I studied geology at university several years before I met him. One of the production crew gave me a Connections t-shirt! Nice bloke to chat with.
Same here. I really got into science after his show.
The extraordinary precise timing of James Burke is exquisitely mirrored by that same property of rocket science. Brilliant.
I miss this show.
,, or Moscow "
💀💀💀💀
The show was called "connections". Back when the learning channel was for actual learning. Its sad that they dont even try anymore - GEN X
I’ve watched Connections fairly recently. It’s nice to have a series where they get straight into the programme from the start without all the preamble i.e. the bit they show every week showing clips of what is coming up in the series, then clips of what is in this week’s episode and, for commercial channels, the “coming up” bit before every advert break (and sometimes even afterwards reminding us of what we’ve just seen before the break).
Blame us gen xers. We didn't watch these shows enough to build up ratings. Program makers saw "reality" TV was getting viewers and made the switch 😔.
@@neilrichardson7454 We'll have to disagree. I don't put any blame of the the ridiculous BS of the 70,80, and 90's perpuatated by those mangey, flea ridden boomers....
at the feet of GEN X. If you are GEN X then just know... they did this to you. They canceled you before you ever got out of the gate. You were never meant to succeed. (Think affirmative action).
@@neilrichardson7454 and reality shows are Much less expensive to produce.
I loved that show. Great series
I am always impressed no matter how many times I see it.
Connections is absolutely phenomenal. I remember watching it on DVDs ordered from Netflix with my dad back in the early 2000s. That first episode we watched with plow to the Atom Bomb is still fresh in my mind.
This show originally aired in the 1980s via the BBC. I can still remember as an 8 year old boy watching this show with my family after dinner. It was just an amazing TV show. Way ahead of it's time.
loved all of james burke’s tv shows and books. i learned more from him than years of high school history
You can learn more listening to Sabaton.
But how do you verify what you learned is correct?
@@KatariaGujjar multiple sources that don’t use each other for sources? corroborating evidence? critical thinking?
@@jamesmilton6529 sabaton who? experienced researcher or scientist? oh right. metal band. the greatest of historians. 😀
Best shot in television history while talking about a Nazi scientist lol
For those wondering, this is from an episode of "Connections", a documentary series. The presenter is James Burke.
I really loved watching the series!
Same!
One of my favorite shows of all-time alongside Carl Sagan in Cosmos!
The mighty James Burke....still with us thank God...
It's a shame they don't make TV shows like this anymore. I miss the days of Carl Sagan and the Cosmos
This one is called Connections with James Burke
This guy is awesome. Haven't seen him for years but he used to do shows on the continuity of scientific discovery. I love learning!
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Especially how a search for a solution often resulted in some completely different than planned. But it took a Genius to recognise the connection!!!!!
Yeah, this is from "The Day The Universe Changed - A Personal View by James Burke"
Possibly the best series on history of technology in existence.
The series left me with an understanding that advancement in knowledge is non-linear, and unpredictable. Amazing series.
@@calysagora3615 This is from CONNECTIONS, the series Burke did before The Day The Universe Changed.
Oh yeah fosho. Nuthin Brit’s and Mericans love more than notsi’s. Do a short on one of the death squad notsi’s the Mericans installed after ww2 in South America. Probably not as cool of video but still a chance to brag about fookin notsi’s.
Excellent timing!
Always loved this show.
I remember watching this - Mr Burke was brilliant.
James Burke was my hero as a child. Connections got me into science. This shot was not edited because you couldn't get it that good in the 70's .I wonder if James Burke is still around?
He is 85 and still with us. He was publishing new books a couple of years ago.
Connections was the most inspiring show ever
“A confined space with a hole in it.” 😮😂😂😂😂
Confined with a hole😳💀💀
Like that ball headed fool from that show "Neet the Browns" always says
STOP BEING NASTY !
🤣🤣🤣🤣 with some bushes
If you watch the show when it aired on TV you could earn the functional equivalent of a PhD. It was that good.
What functional equivalent do I get after watching Tik Tok?
@@DoBraveryFPS you get functional equivalent of Dora from finding Nemo, not being able to renember anything for longer then a minute😃
@@aleksandarl6975 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
A PhD requires you to extend the knowledge of the scientific community.
@@aleksandarl6975 like spelling.;)
This guy is a history legend. Name is James Burke.
Never gets old! 🫡
Connections! I am sure someone was keeping track of the countdown but still very cool!! I am an old fart and this was the best tv show ever PERIOD!!
I would get up really early, like 5am, when I was about 11 years old so I could watch Connections before school! It genuinely helped shape the way I see the world.
I agree, loved this show!
I even waw born 2002... I'm scare to be grown-up
I really hope he has a huge stack of awards for this.
Even if not, this show is syndicated all over the world. I’ve seen it in so many languages. His legacy is worldwide.
All the awards are corrupt, a true professional like this would never get one.
He gets an award for getting WRONG the fuels for the Saturn rockets.
Time the countdown launch? BFD, go home.
@@ZakZ8915 100%. Maybe if he trafficked a few hundred children, or supplied politicians with said children, he would've been given a Nobel Peace Prize.
Why because he spectated something that other amazingly intelligent people did? Give rewards to people that make these things happen, not the people who observe it.
ACTION 🫵🏼🎬…. This Mans is a 1 take legend! … AAAANNDD CUT! 🎬 🎥🎞️👍
I used to love the James Burke Special so much
Connections was one of my favorite TV shows growing up, Mr. Burke had a way of presenting information that made it stick because he made it interesting.
I rewatched the first series this year. As long as you understand it as something analogous to "World history 500BCE to 1975CE" and don't expect it to be prescient, the series is still almost as amazing as it was then. And in some sense, due to many amazing on-location scenes like the one here, it is better than it would be if filmed today.
I knew it looked familiar, dude that show needs to come back I wonder where I can stream it.
@@DangRenBo where can i stream this??
I adored his show! It was lovely to see this little clip after all this time.
Available on DVD
Watching this series as a young man really had a great influence on me. It was way before the world of RUclips where we can easily learn about anything.
British humor is top notch
Ready when you are, CB!
Possibly one of the greatest moments on television and I wasn't even alive yet when it happened.
It's TV, man. You don't know how many times he did that and nothing happened. You're only seeing the successful shot . . .
@@randytaylor1258 Yeah, they had plenty of rockets ready for the retakes. Forehead slap!!!
@@randytaylor1258 How many times _could_ he have done it?
@@NxDoyle
Well, they knew they had only one shot to make it work so they would have done it at least several to measure the timing exactly. Then the producer would have done a final countdown -- there's a giant digital clock on the field-- and cued Burke.
And as I said, if they screwed it up you would never have seen it (except in outtakes).
@@randytaylor1258 This comment runs counter to the reasonable inference drawn from your first. You gave every indication that 'rehearsal followed by nothing' somehow detracts from the timing of the actual take.
The key to rehearsing this would have been ensuring that the copy was written to a specified time and delivered at the same speed.