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by minedwiz 754 days ago
Given the date and that it's a Saturn-1B, that would make it AS-202, one of the early test flights. So instruments probably real, but not final hardware.
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I mean, is it footage from the test?
that's real footage
'Tis, and in the video the maker explains what they had to do - telecine 16mm film, stabilise, upscale, and interpolate from 5 -> 30 fps, as well as generate plausible sound from the spectra provided in the original test report.
> upscale, and interpolate from 5 -> 30 fps

So it’s not really „restored“.

More like „artificially enhanced“

It's not like a sports broadcast, no fast-paced action happens on the instrument cluster.