Walter Cronkite Visits ILM (circa ESB)

[darth_myeek]

Audio stinks, but worth the pain. Looks like the youtube poster botched Walter's last name. Mostly an ESB/ILM tour by George. John Dykstra discussing the Dykstraflex, and The Black Hole's David English discussing their Ace motion control camera.

Walter Cronkite visits ILM

 

[MooCriket]

Nice find, thanks for sharing it with us:cool

 

[darth_myeek]

Thanks Moo :thumbsup

 

[INCOM]

Thanks for posting this. I remember seeing this when it first aired back in the day on 60 minutes.

 

[Skyler101]

$50,000 dollars... hmmm....
Great posting!

 

[Skyler101]

$50,000 dollars... hmmm....
Great posting!

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

'A spaceship on a stick'. Ha ha...

 

[Clerval]

Ah yeah... the day they put one over on Walter.

 

[JMChladek]

Actually, the show was called "Walter Cronkite's Universe". It aired for a couple seasons. Walter did the show as part of his post CBS Evening News contract as he wanted to do more then just straight news. One of the other programs had him on the set of Tron as they composited an all new sequence just for him to demonstrate what they were doing with the high contrast positive and negative compositing. After he passed away last year, CBS news aired that clip again as part of their news memorial.

 

[CTF]

John Dykstra discussing the Dykstraflex

I thought John was gonna be talking 'bout the Dykstraflex; still, that was a good watch!

 

[Skyler101]

One of the other programs had him on the set of Tron as they composited an all new sequence just for him to demonstrate what they were doing with the high contrast positive and negative compositing. After he passed away last year, CBS news aired that clip again as part of their news memorial.

Any idea if that segment or story is online anywhere?

 

[GoldCylon1]

That was pretty cool, even with the poor quality video, and sound.