Saturn S-II stage separation

In a time before rocketcam.com they used 16mm film cameras. The quality was far ahead of what we have today.
View from the Saturn S-II during staging. This sequence continues after staging to show the planet from the S-II stage, a nugget not seen anywhere else.

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[uzimodem]

spacecraft films has all this. and they are excellent.

[Synthetrix]

Cool footage.

[rando991]

This was the Apollo 4 footage, which I think was going on (unmanned Apollo tests) during the Gemini program.

[rando991]

I remember a staging clip like this during the telecasts of the Gemini mission 1st stage separations. I always thought they used an animation, but I'll bet it was this footage.

[MightySaturn5]

Upon J-2 ignition that SI-B really starts moving.

[MightySaturn5]

Its incredible how efficient the J-2 was.

You can clearly see how fast the SI-B is going and thats just the beginning of its burn

[rooftop06]

It's Apollo Flight 202, 25th of August 1966.

[apollosaturn5]

Also if you look at the forward skirt you can tell that is cylindrical rather that conical like in the S-II.

[rooftop06]

What you see is from a camera attached to a piece of blown-off rocketry, a metal skirt that has about 50 seconds more to live before it burns to death through the atmosphere.

[babgab]

Actually, that's the SI-B from one of the Saturn 1B flights. You can tell because of the fact that there are three ullage motors on the SIVB stage instead of two like there was on the Saturn V version.