The Greatest Shot In Television 

@@alliecuake7728 pretty sure they were joking

@@askvideos1 the sarcasm is either really really dry, or it's woossh. I can't tell which. Just can't.

Took them 3 takes I heard.

green screen

@@d3c0d3junky not in those days!

I'm skeptical. He doesn't track the rocket as it goes up, just keeps his head stationary. edit: nvm it's real

@@literalantifaterrorist4673 I'm sceptical about it being fake, due to the lack of advanced editing software back then. I doubt they could get the lighting so good and the focus to seamlessly transition into the background like that, if it was a green screen. Besides, you can conveniently track a rocket at that distance by just moving the eyes upwards, no need for any head motion.

then again who cares, its a good shot fake or not

Looks like a composite to me. He's roto'd out.

@@literalantifaterrorist4673 you don’t have to move your head up to look up

I believe I can see him grin in a circle...

Idk guys. Burke is an absolute professional. For him this is just another tuesday.

Yep, this is standard for Burke. He was probably thinking, "That's it then, now off to the pub we go."

Stop reminding me that Silksong isn't out yet 😢

“Oh shit the camera was off”

he pioneered Kevin Mitnick's "give me access to a fixed line telephone and I'll start the WWIII" terror

Given that he’s Jewish this is pretty antisemitic

Nailed this comment!

Fr?

​@@pukpuk-lw3bbNo 😭

fax

because its not that impressive, some of you are very ignorant

@@kevina3673 how is it not impressive? 💀 LL wannabe cool guy over here🤣

@@kevina3673 bro you are subbed to 5 minute crafts you should have no rights

with spacex rocket launches. It almost feels like an every day occurance

Moms raviolli

@@snakex555 Thanks for the laugh. :)

@@snakex555 mamas linguini!

@@RSpracticalshooting No, It's Dad's spaghetti

Uncle’s pasta

he was looking at the rocket, maybe he was crying of happiness, we will never know

Well, the destination line was recorded after the fact, but his body language doesn't give anything away at all! Quite still.

A large dark patch was probably forming at the front of his trousers

just bri'ish stuffs

It’s cut? Listen to the audio

Just like he nailed your mom, in front of a green screen😮

cameraman: dang it forgot to press record, bring it back down

@@tee228”shit, hold up, lens cap was on.”

Narrator: My line takes 13 seconds so I'll start when the countdown announcer gets to 14. Not rocket science. Well done for not screwing it up, but it's not like they pulled out the slide rules and calculated the angle of trajectory of light from the moon and divided by pi.

@@ScottieMacF it's not that it's hard to pull off, but he couldn't flub his lines at all or it gets ruined.

It's even more impressive when you consider the fact that the pilot had to open the choke, turn the keys in the ignition and get the gas pedal to exactly the right spot to get the thing started bang on cue, all while squinting out of the window for the signal, with the kids fighting in the back and his co-pilot fumbling the directions even with the map light on.

@@n_tas Heard in the transmission from the craft "Are we there yet?", "NO!", "Are we there yet?", "NO!" .... 😁

😂👍

😂😂😂

Best comment on 01 April!!! 😁

Jake Richardson lol exactly!

At that distance, he probably just cranked it to the "infinity"-setting.

@@Happymali10 Nope, would have been out of focus even using the far setting. He had to pull the shot -perfectly-

@Jake - truth. And going by the soft-stop to the action, it wasn't cranked to the end of the lens or to a moveable Hard-stop, it was done to a mark on the focus ring or Follow-Focus wheel.

May well have had a focus puller/assistant for just that, not uncommon(esp if you have a budget and a shot you only get one take on lol)

For real? Then he really had no other option. A satellite like that wouldn’t launch for a long time after Voyager.

Wow it's Voyager 2,amazing.

So, if he hadn't gotten it right, he had a second chance two weeks later with Voyager 1!

@@theknightikins9397 Actually just 2 weeks later....😂😂😂

Hotel?

But I’m non-binary

I watched reruns of this show religiously as a kid. Absolutely loved it.

Loved that show - blew my mind as a kid.

@@twstdrealityYou are now Mr. Burke.

Lmfao

Good job the astronaut didn't have the handbrake on.

dude probably squinting like his life depended on it

There is actually a countdown which the button presser follows. It's usually from ten to one, and then the ignition command. So the button presser wasn't really paying attention to this narrator. The narrator timed his speech to match the countdown, which I believe, was hear distant at the time of the filming.

@@PirateReviewer R/woosh

Q: If you had a superpower what would it be?

@@bowxfire5275 That

@@bowxfire5275 Uhh dude you forgot this was youtube not r/askreddit

@@ryanstothert2889 😂

@@ryanstothert2889 but you don't have Hands

Better moscow than Moon.

@@user-rf47CwB72 better New York or even better London

@@gottliebz2709 no, moscow is much better

@@user-rf47CwB72 really? Moscow be the destination, the world as we know it will be no more

​@@SayHelloToTheRobots If you are scared then surrender! Your country is now a part of Russia!

It would be considered rude not to.

@@ronnieturner6820 speak English

@@appleman29 good 1 profesor

@@sem_skywalker I think I also sawed the remo control in his pockit

They certainly had the line rehearsed over and over and over, with him always able to see a countdown clock so he knew his timing perfectly, rehearsing several times the morning of the launch to be sure all of the equipment was working etc. And the actual launch would be a satellite launch, which having grown up in Cocoa Beach FL and able to watch the launches literally from my backyard (literally, the sound once it arrived many seconds later would still shake the windows of the house), were happening a couple of times a year during that period. You would definitely not want to miss your window, but then again, you might set it up once early during production and if you got it then, great, if not you might have another window late in production, and if you missed all of the windows, well ... you just scrap the idea and put in something not nearly as dramatic. Definitely a great show, and I remember watching it on first run and seeing this shot from the show. Mr. Burke had a foundational influence on my interest in science and engineering.

@@dondumitru7093 don wat is this for n wats happenin here? I wus scard to ask cuz ppl like the apple guy bully me but idc nemor

I was surprised to find out that he's still alive. The government should ask him to sort out COVID, he'd make short work of it.

Just a pity the up-loader is rubbish and uploaded in the wrong ratio, amateur or what!!

Lol ""one-off"" there are multiple rocket that launched since then

Yeah pretty crazy that was the only launch that year.

@@URProductions Governments must love you then...

I wonder what Tom Scott is up to these days.. The man has been practically everywhere except space.. Then again that might be for the better. After all, he is a red-shirt..

Still a healthy 85 years old, James Burke is a television legend.....

@Mo Swagy Human bodies shut down due to accumulated damage that can't be repaired as cells grow less and less capable of division every time they divide and continuously as they get exposed to oxygen, sunlight and many, MANY other factors. Billions of Bits of your DNA are being damaged as we speak, and a few of those repairs are imperfect leading to cells that need to perform apoptosis in order for you not to get cancer or cells that can no longer perform their tasks optimally, and these inefficiencies mount up. Waste products, from proteins, through minerals, to many other things, are going to accumulate in parts of your body, (including the brain) and eventually cause irreparable damage . So, sure, a healthy lifestyle can certainly help make you live longer and at a higher level of comfort, but those muscles and bones are going to atrophy and those internal organs are going to slowly start failing, regardless of what you do, unless you can add new stem cells and fix the genetic and epigenetic damage, as well as remove the buildup of waste products.

This dude is so cool that RU-vid shows what he did back in the days.

Physics wasn't invented yet

What?

Yes! I thought that too. I suspect many a present-day cameraman would have had his zoom finger twitching too. But to just let it leave shot then go for the close-up is magnificent.

You get blown away easy. Best stay away from heat sources...

there were probably so many others recording it. why bother XD

Also the fact that the guy himself didn't follow the rocket by not looking up, and the fact they later admitted it was a separate shot altogether, and the fact so many people to this day think it was an actual shot.... But hey, don't let it ruin your entertainment.

@@containsthestrange3902 that's why nobody invites you to parties.

Tom who?

@@wtfshiiiiii a human

Tom Scott has a really fun, informative, and entertaining channel!

@@wtfshiiiiii some youtuber probably

@@wtfshiiiiii mad cause bad

We will always find extraordinary, technologically advanced, and mind-blowing ways to end lives efficiently.

@@fuego3974 yeah to either live efficiently or destroy it efficiently

Good luck sending a rocket to Moscow, you bastards

Why not both?

Right everyone talking about the point but Im over here thinking about those last two lines

Right? As cool as this video is, those last 2 lines are ominous as fuck all.

@@erin79 Jeah that was confusing but also to be expected.....

"Planets or Peking" he still predicted the greatest rival countries to the west.

@@erin79 not really. this was at the height of the cold war.

@@SandorSoptei How does that remotely change my point? I didn't say it was a surprising statement, but an ominous one. And yes, it is just that. To think even in our televised entertainment we were not-so-casually implying readiness and willingness toward nuclear armageddon.

ahahahah XD

underrated comment xD

LAAUUUNNNCHHHHH!!!!!

@@xyihhz4262 - like the rebel soldier at the end of Rogue One 😂

"you're gonna looove this park" -Gatorland

Wtf are you talking about

@@SubwaySam10 Maybe The Wiggles is more at your intellect level ?

@@geminizaiby lol I just visualised him waddling off and pointing at the Wiggles to see what happens.

lol

... don´t ever let him point at you 😉✌

Ummm. You can literally do that.

truly

James Burke is Mother Nature !! 😁

The funny thing is, he started out with an MA from Oxford in English, then involved himself in teaching it in Italy before a chance event there made him get a job with the BBC back home in England. He has no 'official' scientific training!

Him and Carl Sagan

How'd he get you into space bro?

Shame he only almost got you there, what did you get into instead?

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E‎

He timed it to the second 👍

there's also the fact that you can instantly hear the rocket engines on ignition

@@Therealpro2 Post production sound dubbing. Notice when we cut to the rocket close up there is no break in the rocket sound. Standard sound editing technique to keep things flowing

@@Therealpro2 instantly hey... you might want to do the math on that :)

And there was an assistant doing the count down with his fingers that Burke could se so Burke could time it perfectly.

As Tom Scott would say "One Take!"

That’s gangster.

According to my very accurate One-Mississippi method of counting-down time, it seems like he stepped into the shot right at the 10" mark. My guess is that they rehearsed the timing a few times. But with all that said, it's a magnificent piece of production.

Like so much in life, it's simple when you hear how it's done, but he had the idea first.

I grew up watching the great Raymond Baxter as well as James Burke, Judith Hann, William Woollard _et al_ showing us how to science. I'm sure that is in no small part why I went into aero engineering (who can forget Spitfire pilot, Raymond Baxter's narration of Concorde's first flights?). Little wonder that I'm also drawn to Tom Scott. Call out too to Jay Foreman.

Tom Scott and Veritasium feel like the successors to Burke's legacy. Great storytelling to get across interesting information about... Anything. Tom does nail the timing of shots like this sometimes as well.

It's the walk and talk...

It’s the funny red shirt

To quote Gary Brannon in the new technical difficulties episode "Take that James Burke"

Haha! Yup, best comment.

The bell don't dismiss you, I do.

I was wondering how they nailed this

Shhhhh, don't ruin it. Ill just pretend he has the perfect timing

That's no surprise at all to me but it still took some poise to make it appear natural, un-rehearsed and not even rushed! Especially as those countdowns sometimes pause...

But it's clearly not a single shot. The walking past the rocket and then the launch shot were not done in a single shot - they could easily have been days, weeks or months apart.

@@legshakermaker1968 oh yeah there’s nobody claiming that - but the launch shot is perfectly timed

It was very nice of the wind to stop blowing for the shot as well

One of my indelible memories of childhood, James Burke talking space and Patrick Moore the moon

you can hear the countdown bruh

@@Magrafo_ you can literally hear 7...6... at 0:52

@@pierdolecfabrykasp.zoo.8776 2nd shot

(them duke boys are it again) YEEEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWWWWWWW

*YEET* to the moon.

lol

@@MEHRABHASSANBAIG Computer says no. Heading to Moscow.

Randy Marsh sips coffee nonchalant.

James Burke & Graham Hancock, have to somehow be from the same tribe. You know that one which is both utterly honest & correct & do not forget this guy... 1:00 Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please And if things don't change soon, he will Oh, man has invented his doom First step was touching the moon. ~Bob Dylan song: "License To Kill" album: "Infidels" (1983)

@@soldtobediers what the hell are you talking about

@@magic_potato1375 Just the facts. ''Facts can be stubborn & annoying things to some.''

@@soldtobediers you just made up some nonsense about tribes then quote some lyrics from dylan's heroin addict drunk ass and call it facts. "Sold to be Diers can be stubborn & annoying to everybody"

@@fiachramacaodha1260 When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's.

@Caleb Betteridge it’s an older name for Beijing, the capital of China. The name in Chinese has been the same for centuries, but the way the name was transliterated into the Roman alphabet changed from “Peking” to “Beijing” just after the Communist takeover in 1949. It took a few decades for the change to become common usage in English, though, so this 70s program still refers to the city by the older name.

It's also the German name for Beijing.

NOTHING HAS CHANGED

@@johnodo764 true, sadly.

@@OzTheWizardOfPorn French is "Pékin"

Twist: James Burke is Tom Scott's real father.

@@jsmith498 "YES! ONE TAKE! ONE TAKE!"

When he looked, he'd already felt that the rocket launch had started.

Also, perhaps, 'that damn camera better have been rolling!' 😅

@@Andy009Duncan Yeaaa 😂

It's excellent, but I'd say that The Day the Universe Changed is Burke's best series by far.

Scientism more like.

Indeed it is!!

Agreed. I didn't think Connections II did as well though. It was less "connected."

@@jetuber one of my all time favourites!

And an institution in dry wit.

I've just realized he was born exactly the same day as me, only 40 years earlier 🤭🤭🤭. God to know.

"Or is he?" 😁

I thank mr. Burke for all his TV work and his special "Connections" series. A series that still radiates knowledge today. (sigh) There is no other.

Totally agree I still remember his fabulous Apollo coverage He explained it all !!

Represents America perfectly

@@spartes4024 he's British

@@etherealhawk thx

@@etherealhawk so was america at one point

Thats the name of the episode it was in. Its a great series ('connections').

It's our death note, but we just haven't decided when to post the date

@@MrLeGeNdCast "And from the tree of knowledge of good and of evil you shall not eat from it, because in the day that you will eat from it, you will die the death.”

@@MrLeGeNdCast Or to get us away to the other planets, away from people like you 😝

Just like sharp rocks, bronze bars, agriculture, books, democracy, explosives, fossil fuels, ai, the internet, social media, cloning, etc, etc. It is the nature of all tech and innovation: what will we do with it? We decide whether to do good things, bad things, and/or sex things.

@@antondelacruz9362 judging by Human nature over the last several thousand years, we'll do a lot of good things, some horrible bad things, and yes some sex things. Seems pretty basic to me, our blueprint eh?

By the time this episode had been made, Apollo was dead and buried, and NASA was getting ready for the shuttle. The rocket shown being launched in the second shot was a Titan III, while the one in the first shot was a surplus Saturn V NASA never got to use.

First rocket was a beast

@@Trainlover1995 ok?

Post Apollo but, there is still a Saturn V launch umbilical tower in the background. I wonder what year that was.

@@rcktpilot not sure on the year, but I wonder if this is the same rocket they currently have on display at the Saturn V center?

@Karl with a K i wish

@Karl with a K i wish

@Karl with a K they wish

I had breakfast with Mr. Burke, Ukiah Ca. He came in to the restaurant with a producer an took a table next to ours, I was the only one to recognize him, had a great conversation, producer was glad they were recognized while many in the restaurant were listening in. This happened around 1985-6. I consider him to be a fine teacher.

@Karl with a K Uh, “nerd fests”??? You sound bitter about your cognitive limitations.

@O.G Autistler LMAOO

@O.G Autistler Connections(1978) that's what they wrote in description and this is what i find ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XetplHcM7aQ.html

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4G6e4TaJxkI.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's the name of that series? I've never known about this guy.

What series bro

Right lmao, it's not that impressive. These things are methodically timed.

The value of rehearsal.

Or they might have the countdown timer behind the camera, soJames can adjust the narrative and point at the right time.

errr no - it's called Tell a Vision for a reason.

@@Stuart.Branson. Please explain, I'd like to know.

Its fake

@@zeldzamezeeslak6082 it isn't fake, lol, he just timed it very well.

@@zeldzamezeeslak6082 as much as you want to believe it's fake, it's flawless production planning and execution.

@@ohaiadit Practice, practice, practice. Would have been great to see a 10min behind the scenes for this shot, talking about coming up with the idea, working with NASA for access, rehearsals, weather delays (it's Florida), etc.

@@dondumitru7093 They could have just been listening to a radio with the launch countdown, with someone signaling him, counting down with flash cards, a mobile teleprompter, or just with their fingers.

If you use both hands, it works mor e effectively. If you have passengers, get them to join in too. Many hands make light work...

Oh another practitioner of our great art. Personally I execute before being stopped… driving slower using our power to switch the light to green, after which, celebrating in glory racing away. Let us continue our training leaving others around us in awe. As the first master of our creed named Oogway said: “there are no accidents”

If you snap your fingers (sometimes) the light will turn green

LOL!

It just requires a blood sacrifice

Same here, I just shared this with my son. We were so lucky. Even with Carl Sagan.

The 70s... when presenters were presenters. And guess what - Burke wasn't even a 'space expert', he just had a superb manner and swotted up on his subject.

Don't worry, he's still at it - some kid is has done loads of interviews with him. Sadly they only get 100 views, you can add to them! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yNMcz-szA_k.html&ab_channel=arlohajdu

I never heard of James Burke may I ask how you first originally came to know about him?

​@@StephenASmithESPN Richard Attenborourgh & James Burke ruled the UK in the 70's with their science shows, but people obviously like monkeys more than inventors so the former is globally famous and the latter is not.

It's from a time where 'auto' was short for automobile. Not the button on the camera, the DJ mixer, photoshop or lawn mower. Craftsmanship, a term that unfortunately won't land you a job anymore.

Everything up to the point at 0:45 could have been shot either before or after the launch. What get's me is there's no way the sound of the rocket is live, because from that distance there would have been a delay of several seconds before they heard it.

Not to mention the little focus rack they did when he turned around

I'm sure they had a big timer behind the camera for him to see

@@HaydenLau. exactly what i was thinking

Extremely. Maybe Tom emulates him - good choice if so.

True that

form

Forgot about tom thanks for reminding me!

Tom Scott comes from a long lineage of the strongest nerd genes the scientific community is aware of.

lol

h...h....have you built TB2 yet?

You are not alone Thunderbirds, inspired me to be an engineer too.

You must be Joe King

And the opening 15 minutes of the first ever episode are a 9/11 conspiracy theorist's dream.

There is, his name is Tom Scott, all the kids are online these days.

Can't do it. Showing connections between things limits your ability to redefine them. Redefinition is the primary modern strategy of societal control.

@@justinkennedy3004 Always some dickhead ruining the thread

Same. My sister, brother and I would binge on that show as kids/teens. I still rewatch it today and with my knowledge gained through life (mid '30s now) I see even more so how connected everything is. Wonderful cat, Mr. Burke is.

@@kawaiilotus lol I was just thinking 'This sounds like Tom Scott'.

Moscow 😢

Isn't that crazy?! He mentioned Moscow and Peking like it was nothing much to it. Just wow. And than these "civilized" people are talking about peace and f***ing democracy. Hypocrites! I'm from Russia. I wouldn't imagine saying the same thing about London or Washington. Wtf?!

@@bravehotsauce it was the cold war give it a fucking rest Its not your war anymore it's Putin's war

@@amirordibi1348 it doesn't make it a less chilling statement cause men and women with this mentality are now sitting in the governments.

@@bravehotsauce cold war mentality breeds xenophobia towards Russians I've actually been to ruusia expecting to get shot but your very nice people brutally honest too I like that shared a few drinks

You've watched... this? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mUF4afxMpQk.html

Didn't Tom also do a video about the vast shot on television?

I think the first Tom Scott video I ever saw was him and his buddy dropping the drum, etc. off of a cliff. RU-vid was a different place back then

@@matthewmosier8439 2 drums and a cymbal .... :X

@@joehodgy Yep, that's the one.

Season One is on RU-vid, and to be honest, season 3 was the one that had anything out of date: A TV guide with Star Trek Voyager on the front.

Thank you. I look one look at season one playlist and it looks incredible already. Any idea where can we find season two and three?

🤗 I'm just happy that I got to have a lunch box AND a ninja turtle thermos.....

I think you meant to say "this is your thermos of tea"

I remember the series from first broadcast. He had a way of drawing you in and you almost came to the correct conclusion at the same time he revealed it. A history of science and experimentation for everyone in easily digestible parts.

And still going strong at a healthy 86 years old.

Indeed, and science wasn't his background. I heard him say in a relatively recent interview that his credentials lay in journalism.

Just released the fourth season of Connections in November 2023.

He was a guest on this week’s episode of the ologies podcast!!

@@currentlevelofadulting5273 Cool. I’ll look that up. Thank you. 😊

where can I watch it?

@@dealerovski82 RU-vid

@@dreampal1877 The first four episodes, anyway. The remaining 6 aren't in YT.

It's the ONLY set of VHS tapes I still own!

The destinations where funny, sad and sacry when he mention citys

Yeah, it was a little awkward for the production crew when they had to ask NASA to turn the rocket around and land it for another take, but it was totally worth it in the end. Five more takes and they finally got it right.

his producer was too competent and the rehearsals were too precise for that to be possible

James Burke & Graham Hancock, have to somehow be from the same tribe. You know that one which is both utterly honest & correct & do not forget this guy... 1:00 Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please And if things don't change soon, he will Oh, man has invented his doom First step was touching the moon. ~Bob Dylan song: "License To Kill" album: "Infidels" (1983)

"Oh, bloody hell! When is the next launch?!!"

@@kevinsager5054 Now THAT literally made me laugh out loud! I could see that happening on Monty Python, or Benny Hill! 🤣🤣🤣

Fake explanation: They had a bunch of other teams filming the same script, offset by a few seconds. His was just the one that was right.

@@drachefly What so they cloned James Burke for each team?

@@drachefly He had in front of him a big display of the countdown clock. TV presenters do this for a living, The script would have been rehearsed 20 times to get the timing second perfect. Actually quite simple for a professional.

@@addisonmartin3700 that was the audition for doing the show 😂😂😂

@@imsoaring this is so obvious, why cannot people get that xd

very underrated comment

To be fair, though - that looked like a Titan rocket with 2 solid rocket boosters. When the countdown hits zero, those solids light almost instantaneously.

I don't hear the "zero"

@@anayarey the television host wasn't doing the countdown, that's handled by the people launching the rocket.

If the other commenter is right about those being SRBs then they’d light instantly

If they'd gone 3 seconds earlier, James would have made them land the rocket and start over.

Can you just shut up

You should find the whole series Fascinating.

He walks into frame...10, 9. 8. 7. SMH

I'm pretty sure you meant to say "Appreciation has no bounds for perfection".

I mean, what second meaning could it possibly have? I see it as a threatening Russia and China. Don't you too?

@@dannatello6144 i see frightened babies trembling at the sight of grand power, if thats what you mean.

just being honest 😁

@@Tacdelio I mean, USSR isn't around anymore and Russia can barely take Ukraine. China is also at 6% the LCT perf of the US with their DF series (even with HSLV) and inventory size, any preemptive or retaliatory would be an exchange disparity of about (1.3B : 44M) I was a USAF 2W2 on assignment outside of my AFSC on avionics systems at LAAFB working on these very systems for 8 of my 14 years

@@janus3555 i like ur funny words portal god