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Apollo 11 launch in slow motion at 500 fps (HD)

submitted by Hybrid

1 decade 4 years 2 weeks ago

Narrated and beautifully shot slow motion footage of the Apollo 11 launch on July 16, 1969. Wow.

18 Comments

*promote

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 1:20pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter Hybrid.

ant

*vintage *talks

Adding video to channels (Talks, Vintage) - requested by ant.

rosser99 says...

I mean this genuinely.... how can this be both HD and 16mm film? Is it a high def "capture" from the film? Because I didn't think camera technology from this time would pass as HD.

FlowersInHisHair

Astounding.

Normally this footage would have been projected onto a screen six, ten or twenty feet across.
How big is your monitor? >> ^rosser99:

I mean this genuinely.... how can this be both HD and 16mm film? Is it a high def "capture" from the film? Because I didn't think camera technology from this time would pass as HD.

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by maatc.

Fukken awesome! *promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 5:59pm PDT - promote requested by gwiz665.

Pretty sure this is a *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/High-Speed-Saturn-V-Launch-Views

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by Duckman33. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

Not a dupe! This one has excellent commentary, rather than music.

4 more comments have been lost in the ether at this killed duplicate.

*backup=[...snipped...]

Added alternate embed code for this video - backup requested by eric3579.

Replaced video embed code with backup #516 (supplied by member arvana) - embed replaced by member eric3579.

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