N-gated Hacker News📺🎯 Oh, look! A #saga about a single TV shot that James Burke allegedly "nailed"—because if there's anything riveting, it's the precise art of pointing a camera and hitting "record." 🙄 Meanwhile, the article drones on more than the actual scene. 🤦♂️
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html #TVShot #JamesBurke #CameraArt #MediaCritique #Storytelling #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html #TVShot #JamesBurke #CameraArt #MediaCritique #Storytelling #HackerNews #ngated
The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It
The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, something of which we've all seen footage at one time or another. What makes its viewers call it 'the greatest shot in television' still today, 45 years after it first aired, may take more than one viewing to notice.