Is Nuclear Test Footage Fake? A Discussion of Cameras and Scale Models

Yeah, here's another conspiracy theory.

The, you've seen all the, you've seen all the grainy footage of

nuclear, uh, test

blasts that, that you've, you've-

Sure

... you know, with the mushroom clouds, and they're always these grainy things,

and

there's all these, like, little houses lined up,

and these little trees lined up-

Yes

... and it blows everything down. Yeah. Okay, so here's the question, right?

So what happened... Okay, so this is great. Okay, you'll love this.

So what happened to the camera?

You son of a bitch.

What happened to the camera?

How, how is that happening if the camera's, like, totally stable

and fine?

Oh my God.

And, and by the way, and the film is fine.

The radi- uh, the ra- the, the radiation, uh, didn't, uh, cause any damage to the

film.

Oh my God.

It's... And by the way-

They didn't actually, like-

Okay, we'll, we'll do this one, we'll do the loop one more time here.

Where's the... Let's see the car. Where's the car?

The car's right behind the house. It just showed up all of a sudden.

Oh, it just showed up.

Okay, so wait a minute. First of all

It wasn't there.

Where'd the car come from?

No car.

Yeah.

No car.

The second is, does it really look like a car?

Car.

Does that look like a real car?

That's insane.

Is that a house or is that, like, you know, a, a, you know, is

that a 12 foot, you

know, 12-inch, um, you know, scale model?

What?

Right?

That does look fake.

Yeah, also the camera didn't move at all either.

You know what it looks like? It looks like the smoke is too

big. Watch. Watch when it hits.

Like, it's... It l- the vol- like, the size of it, it looks

small.

I mean, you've seen-

You know what I'm saying? I mean, it looks like something, we're looking at

something that's, like, a few inches tall.

Yeah. If you watch, like, making of Star Wars, any of the, you know,

any movies

before CGI, whenever they do anything like that-

Mm-hmm

... it's always with these tiny models.

Yes. Yeah, this looks fake as shit.

Right. This is another one. It's like, okay, what, the camera, camera's fine.

Oh.

That's hilarious.

All right, here we go.