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AC-1 Failure - First Atlas-Centaur launch (1962/05/08)
Which reminded me of this:
Koyaanisqatsi - Ending Scene
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) by Godfrey Reggio.
Music composed by Philip Glass.
Cinematography by Ron Fricke.
Available as an Amazon Prime free view. It premiered at a sold out showing on October 4, 1982 to an audience of 5,000 at Radio City Music Hall:
Koyaanisqatsi
https://www.amazon.com/Koyaanisqatsi-Lou-Dobbs/dp/B08195R7VH
How Francis Ford Coppola’s Brought An Unseen Masterpiece Into The Limelight
https://culturacolectiva.com/movies/francis-ford-coppolas-name-helped-koyaanisqatsi
Reggio’s masterpiece, Koyaanisqatsi, was created with a minuscule budget of US$40,000. He traveled across the United States with cinematographer Ron Fricke, capturing images of imposing nature in the Grand Canyon in Colorado [sic] and ghastly portraits of urban life in megacities like New York City and Chicago. After years of work, they ended up with the material that made into the final cut of the movie.
Despite its power, it was and still would be a hard sale for a distributor. Koyaanisqatsi is not a film for everyone, since it’s a dense, frenetic journey, and the lack of plot [no "lack of plot," just starts out really slow, but definitely picks up tremendously when it gets to civilization - awesome time lapse photography there - W] makes it hard to not find it boring at times. But thanks to Francis Ford Coppola, it eventually made its way into the mainstream public. Reggio and Coppola were introduced to one another by a common acquaintance, and he expressed his desire to watch the film. After a private screening, he felt it was his obligation to make sure the film was seen by as many people as possible; that’s when he decided to lend his name to the movie.
Which reminded me of this:
Koyaanisqatsi - Ending Scene
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) by Godfrey Reggio.
Music composed by Philip Glass.
Cinematography by Ron Fricke.
Available as an Amazon Prime free view. It premiered at a sold out showing on October 4, 1982 to an audience of 5,000 at Radio City Music Hall:
Koyaanisqatsi
https://www.amazon.com/Koyaanisqatsi-Lou-Dobbs/dp/B08195R7VH
How Francis Ford Coppola’s Brought An Unseen Masterpiece Into The Limelight
https://culturacolectiva.com/movies/francis-ford-coppolas-name-helped-koyaanisqatsi
Reggio’s masterpiece, Koyaanisqatsi, was created with a minuscule budget of US$40,000. He traveled across the United States with cinematographer Ron Fricke, capturing images of imposing nature in the Grand Canyon in Colorado [sic] and ghastly portraits of urban life in megacities like New York City and Chicago. After years of work, they ended up with the material that made into the final cut of the movie.
Despite its power, it was and still would be a hard sale for a distributor. Koyaanisqatsi is not a film for everyone, since it’s a dense, frenetic journey, and the lack of plot [no "lack of plot," just starts out really slow, but definitely picks up tremendously when it gets to civilization - awesome time lapse photography there - W] makes it hard to not find it boring at times. But thanks to Francis Ford Coppola, it eventually made its way into the mainstream public. Reggio and Coppola were introduced to one another by a common acquaintance, and he expressed his desire to watch the film. After a private screening, he felt it was his obligation to make sure the film was seen by as many people as possible; that’s when he decided to lend his name to the movie.
