I do like these old style of videos. Straight and to the point, no influencer posing or ad breaks, and cheery music. I wonder why this style went out of fashion? It does seem old fashioned now, but I wouldn't mind this making a resurgence.
It's amazing to see the level of specialization of labor so explicitly displayed. To think that so much of that effort is now automated, and all those specialties are redundant makes a deep impression on the soul.
For greater technical detail of mapmaking at about the same time, though of a somewhat different subject, there's Richard Furno's "The Race to Map the Moon", in two parts, covering the 1963--1969 effort to fully map the Earth's natural satellite, half of it with imagery only just obtained for the first time in the years and months immediately preceding publication.<p><a href="http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=1481" rel="nofollow">http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=1481</a><p><a href="http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=1588" rel="nofollow">http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=1588</a><p>And the result, or at least an archived copy, as NatGeo's moon has gone 404: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061125134203/http://www.ngmapcollection.com/product.aspx?cid=1562&pid=15599" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20061125134203/http://www.ngmapc...</a><p>For an earlier map (near-side only), see:<p><a href="https://www.usgs.gov/centers/astrogeology-science-center/science/1961-usgs-astrogeologys-first-published-map?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects" rel="nofollow">https://www.usgs.gov/centers/astrogeology-science-center/sci...</a>
A now deleted youtube channel with archival US government documentaries had a great series by US geological survey department on all aspects of map making / cartography that I've been trying to rediscover for years.
I'm just captivated by that clip of the operator working the stereo tracer. That is the height of etch-a-sketch art, just perfection coming out of those knobs.