On Apr 6, 12:22 pm, David Lesher wrote:
Andre Lieven writes:
There were, after all, limits to 1968 SPFX technology. Plus, don't
forget, as of 1968, no member of the public had yet seen humans walking
on the Moon, so there was nothing immediate to visually compare to.

And they spent liberally when needed. The jogging around Discovery
scene was only possible by what they did: building the whole set
as an enormous hamster wheel and rotating at the speed he jogged.

Yep, and thats the one major set that they didn't try to rebuild for
2010. It was a very ambitious set, and it created the needed illusion.

One issue was they found that the Kleig lights tended to explode
when inverted while hot. So as a result, glass would rain down
during a take...

Bring umbrellas. g

Andre