Comments on: July 23, 2025 Quick space links https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/july-23-2025-quick-space-links/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:36:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/july-23-2025-quick-space-links/#comment-1611907 Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:36:48 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115778#comment-1611907 I’m slipping….

The Tornados
“Telstar”
https://youtu.be/wBm2CN0HvtI?list=RDwBm2CN0HvtI
3:14

Colorized & upscaled.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/july-23-2025-quick-space-links/#comment-1611904 Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:31:43 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115778#comment-1611904 Hilarious but sad; in the “Live broadcast” film above, numerous Bell Company executives & Politicians are completely gushing over this “triumph of free enterprise,” as-if the Bell system wasn’t a monopoly, and as-if they would be allowed to keep control of it.

Jay–
Thank you!
Big fan of these “made-up” industrial films. (Or to be fancy about it, “ephemeral.”) And I must say, more of it appears to be showing up on YouTube compared to even 5 years ago. You can assume certain material exists, finding it however becomes problematic.
(The Internet Archive has huge amounts, but I find it hard to search.)
They all have a definite Agenda, whether they are tech-history-related or not, but great material in context.

I’m going to shill for this one– “the height of pre-war utopian futuristic thinking;”
“Welcome to the Wonder-World of 1960…”

“To New Horizons”(1940)
GM Futurama Exhibit at the Highways & Horizons Pavillion
New York World’s Fair 1939-1940
https://youtu.be/aIu6DTbYnog
(23:00)
(Full-color kicks in at the 8:00 mark)

“A World with a future in which all of us are tremendously interested, because that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives.”

]]> By: Jay https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/july-23-2025-quick-space-links/#comment-1611811 Thu, 24 Jul 2025 03:44:41 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115778#comment-1611811 Thank you Wayne for the videos and all the other historical footage that you manage to find on space subjects.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/july-23-2025-quick-space-links/#comment-1611791 Thu, 24 Jul 2025 01:52:57 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115778#comment-1611791 What Mr. Z failed to mention was that this comsat was launched atop an early USAF Thor IRBM derivative….the first Deltas.

Starfish Prime also interfered with this.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/july-23-2025-quick-space-links/#comment-1611777 Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:31:35 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115778#comment-1611777 Great period-piece, very dramatic!

“Behind the Scenes with Telstar”
Bell System promo-film (1962)
https://youtu.be/MVI41ZfVSaM
37:15

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/july-23-2025-quick-space-links/#comment-1611776 Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:26:25 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115778#comment-1611776 Telstar: First Live Broadcast
https://youtu.be/-JTjB35zUxU
(36:27)

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