[OhMeadhbh]

I'm not seeing it. Starting at "if you mix those gasses..." to after "...you get that." seems to be a single shot.

Just a reminder, we didn't have AI editing tools at the time. Traditional editing tools of the time would probably be obvious. Maybe you're responding to the focus change where the camera operator adjusts the focal plane from Burke to the rocket in the distance.

That focus change makes me certain the shot wasn't reverse projection as the screen would have to be exceedingly large (too large to keep sufficiently flat.)

I remember seeing film (yes, film!) on the news of the Voyager 2 launch and I remember seeing this episode of Connexions on PBS shortly after.

I'm honestly flummoxed you think there's a cut in the final shot of that sequence. I just don't see it. Maybe it's a generational thing

[MarkusQ]

It's really, really obvious. Watch the bit from 43 to 45 seconds in to the video on the article.

[OhMeadhbh]

The final shot of the sequence runs from about :44 to 1:06. I'm talking about the bit that STARTS at :44, after the cut. I think you're talking about the sequence before the SHOT.

[MarkusQ]

Ah.

I think that's why you aren't seeing what people are talking about then. It's being pitched as "one long shot", folks are seeing the cut at :44 and saying "no it isn't!"

It's also not as hard as it might seem because they could track the countdown and cue him at the appropriate time.