"Snidely" wrote in message
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I'm wondering how much impact the film footage shot by astronauts had on
how Hollywood did space sequences.


Hard to say. I mean 2001 still has some of the best Hollywood space
sequences and that was pretty early in the space program.


I'm thinking especially the spacewalking and the Apollo rendezvous shots.

Star Wars, probably not much effect, but are there films from the '70s and
later that differ noticably from the films of the '60s? (Films of the '50s
probably are too Buck Rogers-ish still, but the shift may have started in
1958, eh?)


I don't know if the space program per se had an effect, but I think the more
sci-fi we've had has changed peoples' expectations.

I noticed this the most in an episode of the reimaged Battlestar Galactica
when they're making a raid on the Resurrection Ship and basically fly the
Vipers sideways while strafing it.

Even earlier in the series it was apparent they had gotten away from the
"swooping" motions of the original series. There's a scene where Starbuck
is explaining using the thrusters to change the orientation of the Viper
while outside the atmosphere.



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