Challenger disaster Super 8 home movie footage released.

Author: SilverWook
Date: 9-Mar-2012, 11:21 PM

Author: SilverWook
Time: 9-Mar-2012 11:21 PM
Post link

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/first-amateur-video-challenger-shuttle-explosion-revealed-185802006.html

Very hard for me to watch, even all these years later. (I had to mute the audio.) I'm amazed anybody was shooting Super 8, outside of amateur filmakers in 1986.

Does it drive anyone else up the wall that people who should know better can't distinguish between film and video anymore?

Forum Moderator

Where were you in '77?

Author: Warbler
Time: 9-Mar-2012 11:49 PM
Post link

I still remember hearing about challenger. I was in the school cafeteria when the Principal announced that the shuttle had exploded. We watched news coverage of it in my 4th grade class for the rest of the day.

Author: SilverWook
Time: 10-Mar-2012 12:07 AM
Post link

It was almost impossible to avoid seeing it replayed on tv for quite some time afterward. It occurred 19 years and one day after the tragic Apollo 1 fire, which was an eerie coincidence.

That article is erroneous in that a home videotape of the accident shot in a Florida backyard surfaced and made the news a couple years back.

Forum Moderator

Where were you in '77?

Author: CP3S
Time: 10-Mar-2012 12:44 PM
Post link

I am pretty sure you can hear someone say "oh my god, it is beautiful" right after the shuttle explodes. That'd make you feel really stupid to have made a comment like that once you realize what really happened.

Author: Warbler
Time: 10-Mar-2012 1:11 PM
Post link

well remember they are looking at it from the ground, without having a close up shot of the shuttle. Under those conditions, you might not realize the shuttle exploded.

Author: Moth3r
Time: 12-Mar-2012 7:25 AM
Post link

SilverWook said:

Does it drive anyone else up the wall that people who should know better can't distinguish between film and video anymore?

The original Huff Post article is more accurate in this respect than the Yahoo News article you linked to, but still slips up occasionally.

Although you can appreciate why the confusion exists. I've still got an old Video8 camcorder in a cupboard somewhere.

Guidelines for post content and general behaviour: read announcement here

Max. allowable image sizes in signatures: reminder here

Author: SilverWook
Time: 12-Mar-2012 7:38 AM
Post link

Yeah, but if they don't know it's film when they're looking right at it. *sigh*

The Turner Classic Movies promo for the new Ben Hur Blu Ray touted Chuck Heston's home "videos" shot on the set. Somebody at TCM should have caught that mistake.

Forum Moderator

Where were you in '77?

Author: twister111
Time: 12-Mar-2012 8:21 PM
Post link

Saw this mentioned on MSNBC the reporter used both "video" and "film" terms to describe the footage. {Paraphrasing} "After digging through some home videos [this footage] was found. It may be the only known footage of the event actually shot on film."

I think that was what she said, can't be sure.... I really should'v been paying more attention but the footage was also playing while she was voice overing it. So it was kind of distracting...

http://twister111.tumblr.com
Previous Signature preservation link

Author: Moth3r
Time: 13-Mar-2012 4:59 AM
Post link

SilverWook said:

Yeah, but if they don't know it's film when they're looking right at it. *sigh*

But if they're looking at it on Youtube, it is video (it's an electronic capture of the original film).

Don't get me wrong, I share your OCD tendencies about people using the wrong words (especially those who confuse "cement" with "concrete"), I'm just saying I can understand why there is confusion in this case.

Anyway...

I remember the Challenger disaster, news broke here in the UK just hours after the event. Contrast with the Chernobyl disaster that happened the same year, where we slowly received information and reports bit by bit over the following days.

Guidelines for post content and general behaviour: read announcement here

Max. allowable image sizes in signatures: reminder here