# What past event would you most like to see on film?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 15, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442 "2022-05-15T05:11:47Z")
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### Author:  [@steepone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steepone)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/41 "2022-05-16T22:39:35Z")
Dallas; November 22nd 1963, finally get the straight dope on that one
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### Author:  [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/42 "2022-05-16T23:04:40Z")
… that one is already on film.
~Max
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/43 "2022-05-16T23:06:19Z")
> [@Tibby](#):
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> My first is the Chicxulub Impact.
As Warner Wolf would say, “Let’s go to the video tape.”
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZDmTBqLkLI)
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/44 "2022-05-17T00:06:09Z")
> [@steepone](#):
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> Dallas; November 22nd 1963, finally get the straight dope on that one
> [@Max\_S](#):
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> … that one is already on film.
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> ~Max
Yes, but medium camera shots surrounding the grassy knoll and a close-up of Lee Harvey on the 6th floor of the book depository would be nice to have.
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### Author:  [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/45 "2022-05-17T00:40:34Z")
Speaking of sporting events— I would like to watch the basketball game where Wilt Chamberlain scored a record-breaking 100 points.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt\_Chamberlain%27s\_100-point\_game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain%27s_100-point_game)
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### Author:  [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/46 "2022-05-17T01:27:14Z")
> [@Tibby](#):
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> > [@steepone](#):
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> > Dallas; November 22nd 1963, finally get the straight dope on that one
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> > [@Max\_S](#):
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> > … that one is already on film.
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> > ~Max
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> Yes, but medium camera shots surrounding the grassy knoll and a close-up of Lee Harvey on the 6th floor of the book depository would be nice to have.
If I were going to do that one, I’d want to be able to specify that the camera should follow Oswald around from the time he got up in the morning to at least the time when he was arrested.
Imagine how freaky it would be to see him sitting in the break room eating lunch, and some guy comes up to him and says, “Hey, friendo, you better start running. Like right now. The president just got his head blown off as he rode by in the street out there, and, well, we left your rifle next to a window on the sixth floor. So I guess what I’m saying is, you’re royally fucked, my good dude.”
For the record, no, I don’t think anything like that actually happened. It just amuses me to think about it.
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### Author:  [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/47 "2022-05-17T02:21:43Z")
> [@dorvann](#):
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> Speaking of sporting events— I would like to watch the basketball game where Wilt Chamberlain scored a record-breaking 100 points.
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> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt\_Chamberlain%27s\_100-point\_game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain%27s_100-point_game)
You and @Hari_Seldon could go together.
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> The sporting event I would like to see filmed was a basketball game played on March 2, 1962 in a small arena in Hershey, PA.
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/48 "2022-05-17T02:25:32Z")
Ninja’ed by @Slow_Moving_Vehicle!
But I would like to see the footage of the camera crew embedded with the Imperial Romanov family during July of 1918. Did Anastasia escape the firing squad?
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/49 "2022-05-17T13:29:56Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> The sporting event I would like to see filmed was a basketball game played on March 2, 1962 in a small arena in Hershey, PA.
Too bad that game wasn’t televised and no found footage. We lived in a suburb of Philadelphia at the time. My big brother was the star 6’7” center on his HS team. I recall all the hoopla made over _Wilt the Stilt’s 100 pointer._
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/50 "2022-05-17T19:41:44Z")
Nope.
> **[Почему британский король не спас семью Романовых? - BBC News Русская служба |...](https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/516154807263514618/)**
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> 21.12.2020 - После Февральской революции в России и свержения царя Николая II британское правительство сначало было готово предоставить ему и его семье убежище, а потом отказало. Какую роль в этом отказе сыграл близкий родственник Николая, британский...
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### Author:  [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/51 "2022-05-17T19:48:36Z")
Comment on the premise: This reminds me of the science fiction story _The Dead Past_ by Isaac Asimov. At the end of the story, the protagonist realizes that the “magic camera which can look into any (recent) past” has stripped privacy from everyone. “Welcome to living in a goldfish bowl.”
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### Author:  [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/52 "2022-05-17T20:10:31Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#):
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> This reminds me of the science fiction story _The Dead Past_ by Isaac Asimov. At the end of the story, the protagonist realizes that the “magic camera which can look into any (recent) past” has stripped privacy from everyone. “Welcome to living in a goldfish bowl.”
I was thinking about this the other day. For those not familiar with the story or its implications, you could theoretically look at something 0.000000000000001 seconds in the past - it is in the past and it is to all intents and purposes, now. It’s a great story.
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### Author:  [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/53 "2022-05-17T20:14:15Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Nope
Translation please
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/54 "2022-05-17T20:17:43Z")
The link shows a whole wall destroyed by gunfire in the “House of Special Purpose” were the Romanovs were murdered.
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/55 "2022-05-17T20:20:09Z")
> [@velomont](#):
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> For those not familiar with the story or its implications, you could theoretically look at something 0.000000000000001 seconds in the past - it is in the past and it is to all intents and purposes, now. It’s a great story.
Actually, everything you see is in [the past](https://theconversation.com/what-youre-seeing-right-now-is-the-past-so-your-brain-is-predicting-the-present-131913#:~:text=It%20takes%20several%20dozen%20milliseconds,the%20basis%20of%20that%20information.).
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### Author:  [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/56 "2022-05-17T20:21:22Z")
It’s from here
> **[The House Of Special Purpose, Ganina Yama & Four Brothers Mine](https://asianepiphanies.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/the-house-of-special-purpose-ganina-yama-four-brothers-mine/)**
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> His eyes opened as the flat heavy palm slapped the wooden door for a third time. Thick Siberian shouts pierced the timber and vibrated into the bedroom. The children in the next room were already a…
~Max
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### Author:  [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/57 "2022-05-17T20:22:15Z")
> [@Max\_S](#):
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> It’s from here
Thanks, Max. Interesting history.
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### Author:  [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/58 "2022-05-17T20:22:22Z")
> [@velomont](#):
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> you could theoretically look at something 0.000000000000001 seconds in the past - it is in the past and it is to all intents and purposes, now. It’s a great story.
Asimov’s “The Dead Past” dealt with the fears people had if the past-viewing tech was used to destroy privacy. Damon Knight’s “I See You” actually depicted it happening. Both good reads.
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/59 "2022-05-17T20:58:38Z")
I’d like to film some of the ceremonies at Gobekli Tepe and Stonehenge.
The Eleusinian Mysteries.
The Mithraic Mysteries.
The building of Khufu’s pyramid.
The meetings of Antony and Cleopatra at Tarsos.
A papal conclave. (Probably boring as hell, but I’d still like to have a recording of one.)
The Cadaver Synod.
William Gillette performing _Sherlock Holmes_.
Boris Karloff performing _Arsenic and Old Lace_.
Nell Gwyn performing . . . um . . . onstage.
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### Author:  [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-past-event-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-film/964442/60 "2022-05-17T21:10:41Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#):
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> Damon Knight’s “I See You”
Another awesome story. I think it was in “I See You” that there’s a Mary Celeste fictitious explanation.
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