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LOL. You mean how Big Head’s face gets chromakeyed?

That’s not a reflection. That’s what happens when you use 1970’s era “ChromaKey” technology that drops everything blue.

Within a decade or two, they started to use the color green, on more sophisticated Chromakey video sets. Not sure if they need to do that now to “matte out” a background.

Big Head NASA faker’s face is seen going “through” the white plastic “Shuttle” models because they had blue stickers on the side...

Hey thanks for figuring that out!

The reason he was ducking was he was watching the monitor to see how the shot lined up, and his face bled through where there is a blue-ish colored sticker.

Chromakey... sheesh. But kuddos to you.

Also what is the metallic rod turning on the side of the plastic “Shuttle” model at 2:22... some sort of spinning mechanism to line it up with other backgrounds?

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That’s not a reflection. That’s what happens when you use 1970’s era “ChromaKey” technology that drops everything blue. Within a decade or two, they started to use the color green, on more sophisticated Chromakey video sets. Not sure if they need to do that now to “matte out” a background. Big Head NASA faker’s face is seen going “through” the white plastic “Shuttle” models because they had blue stickers on the side.

Absolute nonsense. You can clearly see his reflection in other areas besides the blue especially in the link I pasted where the video is much clearer.

Also if it WERE blue screen, as you're suggesting, then any blue area on the "model" would show up as transparent...NOT the guys face. Thus the blue area on the side would be transparent, the blue backgrounded starfield on the American flag would be transparent.

Heck, the nasa logo is BLUE. That must have made it extremely difficult to make your mythical models NOT have areas that would always be transparent.

Also just a little while later in the video, at 4:27, there's a another space shot...this time with the earth in the background. And the color of the earth? Mostly BLUE. This entire area would be transparent, not mostly blue.