Milestones in Science & Engineering: Herbert Oberth / Wernher von Braun: The Rocket

The sound mix on this episode is just awful. The music is drowning out the narration.

For information on rockets it's rather lacking too.

I agree with you 110% - it's not the only one that has this problem - very annoying.
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I'm enjoying these short films on science history, but this one has a particularly bad sound mix. The second music/audio track is often louder than the narrator. This happens in some of the other episodes, but there's just more of it in this one.

This would be pretty good except for the very bad sound design. The music is annoying and louder than the speaker. You have to concentrate sometimes to hear what he is saying.

Oberth and Hohman, by the way, plagarized American and Russian experts who had done all of this before them. Oberth read Goddard's book before he published his own, but gave Goddard no credit. The so-called Hohman transfer orbit was discovered by Tsander and Vetchinkin in Russia. Oberth in his books was extremely nationalistic and gave the false impression that ll work on rocketry was done by Germans.

Information value, rather marginal. Production values, *brutal*. Only watched the first few minutes of one (Werner Von Braun) before the clanging, jangling 20s-era piano muzak -- which is every bit as loud as the narration, if not louder -- drove me away. You're better off with the relevant Wikipedia article. Cue up some obnoxious ragtime, read aloud in a poncey British accent, and it'll be every bit as good as this "show."

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