Copenhagen Suborbitals have a good blog post[1] (albeit in somewhat stilted English) explaining how they ended up using a similar device (visible here[2] in a slo-mo video of an unsuccessful engine test).
The Apollo 11 launch features prominently in Godfrey Reggio / Philip Glass's _Koyaanisqatsi_ [1], so most art house theater-goers will have seen it, I would think.