My brother just recently found some old slides. Some of them are the ones I took back in 1965 when I was in the army stationed at The Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville Alabama. I worked at the closed circuit TV station on the base. We would produce training videos for the troops at the Ordinance electronics school there. At that time CBS was producing a show about the progress on the Apollo program. The Marshal Space Flight Center was on the other side of the hill from the army base, and since we were the only people with remote TV units in the area we were contracted by CBS to do the remote for a segment on the work on the Saturn 5 booster. I was lucky enough to be picked to work with one camera which was stationed on top of the big test stand that was to be used for testing of the S1C stage of the Saturn 5. We were 525 feet (160 metres) above ground.

This picture shows that test stand. We were at the top of the left tower.

This picture is a shot I took looking strait down from the tower at the first test article S1C stage as it arrived at the test stand. Actually one of the people you can barely see around it is Werner Von Braun. He was being interviewed by a CBS correspondent about the Saturn 5. You can see our portable control room in the upper left with the pealing paint on the roof.

This picture shows the S1C in the test stand.

This picture shows the camera man I worked with under a tarp because it was raining that day.

The next 3 pictures show a test firing of an F1 engine that they did that day.

I will never forget that day. I wish I had a copy of that show. We made a copy in our control room when it was on that night. But back then (1965) the Ampex Quadruplex video tape was 2" wide and ran at 15" per second. A reel for 1 hr was around 2 ft across, weighed about 25 lb, and cost $300.