It is the TV camera mounted on the rover, controlled from MOCR in Houston. The formal name for it is the Ground-Commanded Television Assembly (GCTA). It was functional when the rover was parked and stationary.
If this was in a studio, or in a dessert at night, the air would have to be sucked out to get that "everything is crisp no matter what the distance" effect. This kind of shot would be possible today indoors with green screens and computer compositing, but even Kubrick's effects team could not achieve this in the 1960s.
I was watching that as it happened and busted out laughing when Charlie said that, because I was pretty much thinking the same thing. The longer they headed towards it, the more obvious the perspective that this thing was enormous.
The rock and the rest of the scenery behind looks like a bluescreen type backdrop sir , note the astros go over the brow of a hill and we never see them reach it.
If you watch the next couple of videos that follow this one in the Apollo 16 video archive, you will see one of them go past the rock and then behind it.
I'm trying to find the longest uncut LRV traverse video that I can find. One that I've seen goes an estimated quarter mile and background features don't get any closer. Shadow angles don't change, either. So the building would have to be MILES long, at least a couple thousand feet high, and the light had to be brighter than anything we've ever made, short of a nuclear bomb.
aliens are watching everything
ballen774 1 month ago
who's filming this and moving the cam in the beginning?
kafka27 1 month ago
@kafka27
It is the TV camera mounted on the rover, controlled from MOCR in Houston. The formal name for it is the Ground-Commanded Television Assembly (GCTA). It was functional when the rover was parked and stationary.
ennui2000 1 month ago
@ennui2000 thx for the answer.
kafka27 1 month ago
If this was in a studio, or in a dessert at night, the air would have to be sucked out to get that "everything is crisp no matter what the distance" effect. This kind of shot would be possible today indoors with green screens and computer compositing, but even Kubrick's effects team could not achieve this in the 1960s.
urbanstarship 6 months ago
That is one BIG movie studio, eh, conspiracy theorists ?
Azakhiel 6 months ago
500m tall giant took a dump on the moon...
cartesiaLive 1 year ago
Awesome! Onward NASA....during these sorry days, you may be down but not out, not by a long shot!
IMattchewB 1 year ago
where is the huge holes, that we can see on the MOON even fro the Earth ???
that is strange.
hulik243 1 year ago
@hulik243 You mean the craters? They're standing inside one.
Like you said, they're huge.
randombloke82 1 year ago
rock has a king kong face on it
EGMAG 2 years ago
I was watching that as it happened and busted out laughing when Charlie said that, because I was pretty much thinking the same thing. The longer they headed towards it, the more obvious the perspective that this thing was enormous.
bigblaster 2 years ago
So that must have been a HUGE studio.
Ofcourse not, members of the CIA will state that this was filmed in Nevada, Area51 or the Sahara Desert.
No way. The moonlandings were reality. Damn good engineering, good science and a lot of courage brought men to the moon.
(CIA=Conspiracy Idiots Alliance)
dopje31857 2 years ago
The rock and the rest of the scenery behind looks like a bluescreen type backdrop sir , note the astros go over the brow of a hill and we never see them reach it.
ApolloColumbo 2 years ago
Keep the faith detective. If it makes you feel comfortable.
dopje31857 2 years ago 2
If you watch the next couple of videos that follow this one in the Apollo 16 video archive, you will see one of them go past the rock and then behind it.
What now?
Astrobrant2 2 years ago 2
I'm trying to find the longest uncut LRV traverse video that I can find. One that I've seen goes an estimated quarter mile and background features don't get any closer. Shadow angles don't change, either. So the building would have to be MILES long, at least a couple thousand feet high, and the light had to be brighter than anything we've ever made, short of a nuclear bomb.
Where the hell IS this place?
Astrobrant2 2 years ago
Amazing! Shows how distance is distorted on the moon. The astronauts just get smaller and smaller! What a giant boulder...
Mechadino 3 years ago
"Look at the size of that rock!"
Moon Landing Hoax conspiracy theorist are RETARDS!!!
rwboa22 3 years ago 6
That's probably my favorite line from all the Apollo transmissions I have heard: Charlie exclaiming, "Look at the SIZE of that ROCK!"
Loved it.
Astrobrant2 2 years ago 7
Parrallax at it's finest! That was a big rock! We went to the Moon!
kppttrst 3 years ago
nice video that was not a rock....
good job.
Roger6803 3 years ago