S1/Ep8 Blooper
Noticed the poor editing while Deke was giving his speech and Alan Shepard seconded him. Alan's arms were behind him in close ups and crossed in front in far shots. Went back and forth with same poses. Oops!!
shareHeh, that wasn't the biggest blooper of that episode.
During the same scenes you are talking about, you see a large photo to the left of Shepard and Slayton of the Earth and the Moon. Error!!! :)
If this was supposed to be a 6-year anniversary party (which I don't know was actually real), then it happened in mid-1967.
The photo of the Earth rising over the lunar horizon was taken by the astronauts of Apollo 8 in December 1968 - a full year and a half after the supposed party.
This was such a glaring error I actually pointed at the television and yelled at it. :)
I get it that most of the people now living on Earth (and by extension, in Hollyweird) were born after the events depicted in this show, and have never had their very marrow rumbled and enlivened by the nearby launch of a Saturn V, but...
... CRIKEY, we're talking BASICS like calendars and timelines and uber-well-documented events--and no, you don't need a friggin' "App" for that!
Given that the flight of Apollo 8 - and it being the first mission to reach the moon - is a significant narrative point on the series, the makers couldn't possibly have thought that such a photograph could have been taken by people before Shepard's speech.
Possible sources of the error (most likely a combination):
- The set design people just stuck what they thought was a cool-looking and thematically appropriate photo in the scene, and nobody thought about it.
- The photo is "supposed" to have been taken by an unmanned craft.
- The image is supposed to be an artistic rendering, rather than a photo.
- The scene was originally intended to take place after the flight of Apollo 8, and editing created the problem. Actually, I think this can't be the case, as (to my imperfect recollection) there were multiple reference not only to the 6-year anniversary, but to the then-current status of the program within the scene itself.