An exactly 15-second retro-futurist documentary film, 16:9 horizontal, genuine 1970s archival news footage of a rocket landing — except the rocket is a residential apartment block. Multi-shot, hard cuts. LOOK: aged 16mm colour film. Heavy fine grain, slight gate weave and flicker, faded period colour — washed cyan sky, warm yellowed concrete, muted reds and browns. Soft optics, mild chromatic fringing, occasional dust on the emulsion. Long telephoto, heat shimmer. Handheld drifts, a refocus hunt, a late pan. Never smooth, never a drone, never CGI-clean. SUBJECT: ordinary six-storey 1970s apartment block — pale yellow-cream render, concrete balconies two sides, standard windows, a small shopfront with an awning on the ground floor, washing lines with laundry. Residents on the balconies, period clothing, calm, leaning on railings watching the ground come up. Beneath the flat concrete underside a single intense rocket landing plume — focused white-orange flame with visible shock diamonds, like an orbital booster landing burn. No legs, no fins, no machinery. It descends on the flame. CROWD: a few dozen ordinary people, all ages, 1970s summer clothes — patterned dresses, short-sleeved shirts, high-waisted trousers — on a wide concrete apron, seen from behind, looking up. Period cars at the edges. Curious and excited, never frightened, never fleeing. PHYSICS: enormous real mass. Slow descent, smooth deceleration. Exhaust blasts a huge rolling dust cloud on contact. Real flame, real dust, real weight. AUDIO: distant compressed rocket roar on a single microphone, building. Bass rumble through the ground. Dust crackle. At touchdown the engine cuts dead — one full second of near silence, only wind. Then applause, whistles, cheering, a car horn. No music, no narration, no score. SHOT 1 | 0.0-3.0s. Extreme long lens, high in a hazy pale sky. The apartment block descends slowly, upright and level, plume burning beneath, heat distortion. Camera drifts and corrects. Tiny figures on the balconies. SHOT 2 | 3.0-6.0s. HARD CUT to ground level, behind the crowd. Dozens from behind, shielding eyes, some pointing. The building comes down into frame, growing, roar building. Period cars and low buildings at the edges. SHOT 3 | 6.0-9.0s. The plume strikes the concrete apron. Enormous dust cloud rolls toward camera. Crowd braces, clothes and hair blown back, a few turning faces away, one hat lifting. Building fills the upper half, still descending. SHOT 4 | 9.0-12.0s. Through thinning dust the building settles onto the concrete, takes its weight with a deep shudder. Plume cuts out instantly. Silent and still. Dust hangs. Nobody moves. SHOT 5 | 12.0-15.0s. Dust clears. The block stands ordinary, as if it had always been there — laundry still hanging, gently swaying. One long beat of stillness. Then the crowd bursts into applause, arms up, residents on balconies wave back. Final: the building among the applauding crowd, dust settling, laundry swaying, faded 1970s film colour. Hold. NEGATIVE: no text, no captions, no logos, no brand names, no company markings, no readable signage. No modern clothing, no smartphones, no modern cars, no drone, no gimbal, no CGI gloss. No fire damage, no explosion, no collapse, no debris striking anyone, no injuries, no panic, no one running. Building never tilts, never wobbles, never falls. No landing legs, no fins, no visible rocket nozzles.