Packet 4: Tossup 15

Jack Warner fired Robert Altman on a film about this organization because Altman’s cut included (15[1])scenes in which actors talked over each other. Four people infiltrate this organization (15[1])by posing as a documentary crew in Matt Johnson’s found footage film Operation Avalanche. (15[3])The Criterion (15[1])edition of a 1989 documentary about this organization (-5[1])by journalist Al Reinert includes a slideshow of paintings by one of its subjects, Alan (15[1])Bean. For that documentary about this organization, Brian Eno wrote the song “An Ending (Ascent).” Justin (*) Hurwitz learned to play (10[1])the theremin to score a film about this organization (10[1])in which Leon (10[1])Bridges played Gil Scott-Heron. The slow-motion walking shot from Monsters, Inc. is an homage to a film about this organization (10[3])based on a book (-5[1])by Tom Wolfe. The tagline of a film about this organization is “failure is not an option.” For 10 points, name this organization depicted in the films The Right Stuff, For All Mankind, First Man, (10[1])and Apollo 13. ■END■ (10[1])

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