Apollo Program cameras question

[tori]

You all know the video sequence of the S-IVB separating from the rest of the stack as viewed from the interstage ring.

How did they get that footage? It looks way too crisp for a TV broadcast. Was the camera compartment rigged for reentry and recovery?

 

[Urwumpe]

You all know the video sequence of the S-IVB separating from the rest of the stack as viewed from the interstage ring.

How did they get that footage? It looks way too crisp for a TV broadcast. Was the camera compartment rigged for reentry and recovery?

The first Saturn V flights had additional cameras inside reentry pods on the second stage. The famous sequences you mean had been filmed on Apollo 4.

 

[Tschachim]

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080706185625AAZdjRe

 

[tori]

Thank you guys

 

[tfr001]

You can see many of those on YouTube, including one of the cameras looking down into the oxidizer(?) tank. According to the flight manuals, they had cameras all over the thing - I wonder where all the video went? Never recorded maybe?

 

[Urwumpe]

You can see many of those on YouTube, including one of the cameras looking down into the oxidizer(?) tank. According to the flight manuals, they had cameras all over the thing - I wonder where all the video went? Never recorded maybe?

Not all cameras had been found after the flight, they had been lost.