[UA] There's a plot in here somewhere.

[Tim Toner]

Greg Stolze wrote:
> It's one of the simplest plots: Covering up the evidence.  The 
> question is, why did it take NASA scientists to long to notice what 
> was visible in the background?  Or if it didn't take so long... how 
> many of them saw it?
What, the boom mike?  It's the last time they used union boom 
operators.  God-damn Brotherhood of Paranormal Machinations Local #333.  
They never could get anything right.

Of course, no one was more embarrassed than the director, Frank Capra.  
After all, no one bothered to tell him that there wouldn't be SOUND up 
there.  They just figured, "It's Frank Friggin' CAPRA!  He'd know."

What?  It's not like he didn't have experience with this sort of thing:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157068/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157135/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156602/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159620/

Why else do you think he never made a movie after 1961?  He was gearing 
up for the production of a lifetime!  And then after that, well, they 
couldn't let him wander freely, could they?  They kept hoping that 
someday, the technology would advance sufficiently to digitally edit 
that damn boom mike out.  When they saw Star Wars Special Edition, their 
best hope for this sort of thing, they collectively sighed with despair, 
and took turns passing around the bulk disk eraser.

As an aside, I was re-reading a brief bio of Capra on the IMDb, and they 
point out that, just as Garfield the cartoon becomes unrelentingly grim 
if you lop off the last panel, most of Capra's best work are plunges 
into the darkest depths of the American psyche, save for that last reel.

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It is true that, in the United States, most poor people live better 
than many middle-class people do in the third world. So what? That 
fact doesn't vindicate neglecting the relative poverty in our midst.