I always wonder if these are staged.
I have to say I'm puzzled. The story is about five years old, and the current hook appears to be that BBC is re-broadcasting it - which might rate two lines in a TV listings site or magazine (ask your parents). GB News is a fairly new insurgent TV channel attempting to emulate Fox News, but with a very long way still to go. Even so, writing up a plug for someone else's repeated popular show is pretty desperate, and almost makes me feel sorry for them. But the mysterious twist is, they are definitely no fans of BBC, either their resources, their approach to politics, or their funding model. Am I being naive - what is going on here? I have tried to spot an angle that makes the channel's enemies look e.g. ridiculous or criminal, but I just can't see it. 👎
Great story. 30,000 - 40,000 GBP seems a little ambitious though?
I have to say I'm puzzled. The story is about five years old, and the current hook appears to be that BBC is re-broadcasting it - which might rate two lines in a TV listings site or magazine (ask your parents). GB News is a fairly new insurgent TV channel attempting to emulate Fox News, but with a very long way still to go. Even so, writing up a plug for someone else's repeated popular show is pretty desperate, and almost makes me feel sorry for them. But the mysterious twist is, they are definitely no fans of BBC, either their resources, their approach to politics, or their funding model. Am I being naive - what is going on here? I have tried to spot an angle that makes the channel's enemies look e.g. ridiculous or criminal, but I just can't see it. 👎
Timely post as 55 years ago... Filming completed.
By the summer of 1969, Director John Sturges - Columbia Pictures had completed filming for the American science fiction movie "Marooned, the Saga of Ironman One!", starring Gene Heckman and Gregory Peck.
Based on the 1964 novel "Marooned", the movie tells the story of three astronauts on their way to a US space station. The movie attracted great public attention when it came out in November 1969, just between the Apollo 11 & 12 manned lunar missions!
Wristwatch-wise interesting as at least half a dozen Omega Speedmaster 145.012 "Ultraman" chronographs were used as in the movie, both the astronauts and the ground mission controllers all wore such an Omega chronograph with the orange chronograph hand.
Even this black & white Columbia Pictures portrait photo clearly shows the running large chronograph hand was a special color!
Thus far none of the Omega Speedmaster Ultraman chronograph versions made it into space...
(Photos: Columbia Pictures)
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