I kid you not, there are people at NASAspaceflight.com that could tell you which rocket which day which pad it was, only by looking at it (they have my entire respect, of course).
The one and only I can tell is the very last one, where the rocket pops like a bottle of champagne.
When I first saw the movie as kid, I wondered WTH - I thought it was a joke from the film maker.
Well, how wrong was I. That very ridiculous thing happened to a Mercury Redstone flight in 1960, better known as the "four inch flight" because the rocket went
no higher.
"all we did was to launch the escape tower."
LMAO - most ridiculous launch failure, ever (on par with Ariane flight 36 that was killed by a
rag)
Best part in the video is kind of 1:19 and happened randomly.
The rocket liftoff, then the music goes quiet and triumphant - just like the poor "push button guy" that for once nailed his takeoff.
...
And then the rocket goes kaboom, the music changes again, and the face of the "push button guy" kills me in laughter, every time.
At 1:34 the first GONG miss the rocket explosion, but the following one at 1:37 comes right in time, GONG, KABOOOM.