AFIAK no one has ever done an exhaustive analysis of the provenance of all that stock footage.
This is an example of someone chasing it down. I don't think it's been done for all the Saturn V launches (Apollo 4 thru the last Skylab launch). That would be a big ask.
As a kid growing up in the 70's it was perfectly normal to see a documentary about Apollo 11 where they throw in the Apollo 4 Stage 2 ring separation like it was no big deal. The awareness of all these subtle differences is a recent development.
And also starting at 0:43 in that clip is the rocket that explodes, an Atlas-Centaur on its maiden flight on May 8, 1962. It was the Centaur upper stage that failed, but I believe we see the Atlas booster engines tumbling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUQgBPjGmAQ#t=35
AFIAK no one has ever done an exhaustive analysis of the provenance of all that stock footage.
This is an example of someone chasing it down. I don't think it's been done for all the Saturn V launches (Apollo 4 thru the last Skylab launch). That would be a big ask.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBITROWVcok
As a kid growing up in the 70's it was perfectly normal to see a documentary about Apollo 11 where they throw in the Apollo 4 Stage 2 ring separation like it was no big deal. The awareness of all these subtle differences is a recent development.