Back then it was probably a lot easier to make more models, and the quality would be better with a single shot. Some of the original footage has blocky areas where the merging wasn’t perfect. Didn’t matter back then, it was far better than most anything else, but three model shots plus a background would have been ugly. Original Star Trek footage also has some of that.
Or to put it another way, we couldn’t have faked the Moon footage because the technology to fake it wasn’t created yet. It was easier to just build a big rocket and go.
Well, the government hired Stanley Kubrik to fake the moon landing. Problem is, he was such a damn perfectionist that he demanded that they shoot on location.
Back then it was probably a lot easier to make more models, and the quality would be better with a single shot. Some of the original footage has blocky areas where the merging wasn’t perfect. Didn’t matter back then, it was far better than most anything else, but three model shots plus a background would have been ugly. Original Star Trek footage also has some of that.
Or to put it another way, we couldn’t have faked the Moon footage because the technology to fake it wasn’t created yet. It was easier to just build a big rocket and go.
Well, the government hired Stanley Kubrik to fake the moon landing. Problem is, he was such a damn perfectionist that he demanded that they shoot on location.