Ok I did see this, as the leaf blower part I remember seeing.

Now that the Leafs are out and I'll have to wait until next season, if there is one, to cheer on the Leafs again (only saving grace being Chicago has gone longer without a Cup victory, although they have at least made the finals since their last Stanley Cup). I will agree GO FLAMES GO!

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We shot a lot of stuff, but I'm not sure what they ended up using. We did some demos with an actual Apollo Hasselblad, showing how it had been modified for use in space. I did some narration and then we shot the astronaut-actor manipulating the controls while wearing space suit gloves.

That Hasselblad was sadly no longer functional, so we had Hasselblad modify the current descendent of the EL/500 to remove the viewfinder and add the reseau plate. We shot a roll or two of Ektachrome 160 film in that camera to show that the fiducials indeed bleed away without too much effort. It also showed that someone could aim a Hasselblad without a viewfinder. (It's really not that hard.) If they didn't include that, I'll be disappointed. But it probably won't be too hard to get a copy of that film roll to use at Clavius.

We shot the astronaut-actor running across the desert floor, with the aim of slowing it down to show how it would really look to try to simulate low gravity by altering the film rate. Unfortunately I was unable to convince the director to confound running with fine motor movement to demonstrate how altering the time base doesn't work.

We shot a segment with the astronaut's visor clearly reflecting the film crew, so that you'd see how difficult it is to film with highly reflective objects in the frame. (Hollywood is much more attuned to that problem now that it was in the 1960s.)

We shot a segment showing the difference between shadow and shade, which explains why Aldrin can be lit up as he descends the lunar module ladder, but the ground underneath him can be pitch black. This, I believe, made it into the final cut. I'm glad, because it's the opportunity I've been waiting for to explain -- with examples -- clearly where the light is going and where it's coming from.

We also shot a number of scenes with the flag, showing how the lighting works on nylon. What they probably didn't show was the flag blowing across the desert. All of my experiments with flags have been done indoors, except for the sunlighting pictures. Working with the flag outdoors convinces me that if the Apollo downlinks had been shot outside, the flag never should have been still.

I took several digital photographs to illustrate many of the principles that apply to lunar surface photography. I granted publication rights for about 100 photos to them, so it will be nice to see how many of them were used. Now that the show has aired, I can show the photographs on Clavius, regardless of whether they were aired.

This is one of my favorites: the real explanation behind Una Ronald's Coke bottle. http://www.clavius.org/img/ollie-coke.jpg

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Isn't that an anachronism? Looks to me like a PET bottle, which I guess wasn't around 35 years ago.

Harald 8)

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Nor was preformulated vanilla Coca-Cola. I guess both were developed as part of Apollo.

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Oh, yes. How goes the old saying: "Spaceflight is a spin-off of the Teflon pan."

Harald

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Everything spins off a Teflon pan. That's why we buy them. :-)

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Just a reminder that Jay's anti-Moon hoax program will be re-aired on the Discovery Channel (in Canada) today at 6pm Eastern time.

Jay:

Have you had the opportunity to watch it yet? I'll be recording it (since I will be at work) and would be willing to send you a copy, if you want one.



Kel

Well I hope you'll have enough copies for the entire class...ah...I mean board!

I'm just kidding.

Well I could post it on my website but I am concerned about two things... copyright violations and my bandwidth. Maybe I could post a short clip, rather than the entire program.

Woohoo. "The Truth Behind the Moon Landings" is going to be showing in New Zealand on Prime at 8:35pm, Sunday 18th July. I just hope the weather behaves as it is on UHF and I only have a VHF ariel meaning that on a bad day it makes watching hard. Still, should be good.

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Thanks for that, PhantomWolf. Woohoo too! =D>

I would have missed it without you posting that as I don't get Prime well where I live, so don't read its listings. Will try to find someone who can tape it for me. Pity it's not on TV3, which showed the Fox programme twice. Still, if we advertise it on bulletin boards perhaps enough people will see it.

Edited to add: Here are Jay Utah's comments about his part in the programme.

I have posted some details on a New Zealand Message Board.

These threads are not archived and vanish into cyber space a few days after the last post.

I posted on SmileCity already, and it manged to bring out few HB's.

this was an interesting claim:

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Yep, some people really need that programme next Sunday night. My thread ended up rather a disaster. One apparently genuine HB and some stunningly stupid behaviour from at least two other posters. One didn't even take the time to read my posts or study the links I provided, fooled around, and when I suggested he desist accused me of being a conspiracy believer with a low IQ. Simply "assumed" that's what I am.

[Off-topic vent]It's hard to believe! Back in the 1950s I saw quite a lot of dogmatic, ignorant Victorians who regularly misinterpreted what people said or wrote, and made up my mind (aged about 9) that I would do everything in my power to not end up like them. So far, so good (I think), but I'm astonished that over 45 years later there are young people around who behave just the same as those silly old fools I observed back then. Don't people observe such things and decide that they must break the cycle and do better?[/Off-topic vent]

PhantomWolf, please see this thread.

Thought you might like to know you're not the only one that made a decision like that, at about that age and time (1950s), and for the same reasons. No regrets, other than perhaps about some of the side effects of having the tendency not to fit into mainstream society that well. :wink:

Unfortunate that the Victorian mindset appears to be self-regenerating. Chalk it up for the most part to certain institutions in our culture that would rather have conformity than truth and free-thinking people.

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Hi Jay,

I don't beleive this story.
Of course you've never made any film for TV.
It's just another conspiracy within the lunar conspiracy.

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Well, the pictures I took have the same anomalies as the Apollo photos...

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Well I saw the title "The Truth About the Moonlandings" and stupidly thought it was another HB ranting. I was not in the mood to be disgusted by purile ravings of the technological knowledge challenged and watched something else. Now I feel stupid!!!!!! :-? .

Now Discovery Canada doesn't seem to list it anymore. Hopefully TLC will pick it up and I'll see it there.

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First, ice is not proven, only suspected. Second, the reason we didn't discover it at the time is that the Apollo missions did not visit nor orbit the poles. All landings were equitorial or near equitorial. So just because we were a heck of a lot closer to the moon doesn't mean we were anywhere near the poles. Kinda like flying from California to Australia and back, then wondering why you didn't visit New Zealand.