Space Race

In both scenes when they mount a magnetic tape on the drive it is on the wrong reel and backwards. Tapes of the day fed from the left to right, and the yellow plastic ring was to enable writing to it. It is shown quite prominently facing outward, not inward, on the right hand, not left hand, reel. They are also seen trying to load a paper tape, IBM machines of the day did not have paper tape readers, these were an peripheral device of teletype machines, used mostly by minicomputers. In the control room, when the so-called signal loss occurs, the screen is plastered with 'no signal', which only appeared on video projectors of a later era. During this so-called outage, the telemetry on the mission control consoles was alive and well.