Dallas; November 22nd 1963, finally get the straight dope on that one
… that one is already on film.
~Max
As Warner Wolf would say, “Let’s go to the video tape.”
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.
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
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.
You and @Hari_Seldon could go together.
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?
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.
Nope.
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.”
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.
Translation please
The link shows a whole wall destroyed by gunfire in the “House of Special Purpose” were the Romanovs were murdered.
Actually, everything you see is in the past.
It’s from here
~Max
Thanks, Max. Interesting history.
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.
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.
Another awesome story. I think it was in “I See You” that there’s a Mary Celeste fictitious explanation.