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The Greatest Shot in Television: James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene (2024)
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The 100 Most Memorable Shots in Cinema Over the Past 100 Years.
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- The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, something of which they've all seen footage at one time or another
Summary
The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, something of which they've all seen footage at one time or another. One can only admire Burke’s composure in discussing such technical matters in a shot that had to be perfectly timed on the first and only take. Formally speaking, this was a typical episode of Connections, Burke’s 1978 television series that traces the most important and surprising moves in the evolution of science and technology throughout human history. Though not as widely remembered as Carl Sagan’s slightly later Cosmos, Connections bears repeat viewing here in the twenty-first century, not least for the intellectual and visual bravado typified by this “greatest shot in television,” now viewed nearly 18 million times on Youtube.