The thing is, the moon landing footage didn’t look real because Kubrick filmed it—Kubrick’s movie 2001 looked real because Kubrick enlisted astronomical artists and aerospace engineers to help him with it. The only “evidence” that Kubrick filmed the moon landing has itself proved to be a...
Footprints on the Moon: Apollo 11: Directed by Bill Gibson. With Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, Pierre Jalbert. Theatrically released documentary on the Apollo 11 moon landing, issued barely two months after its completion, combining footage
The sheer spectacular imagery ofApollo 11alone is almost enough itself to propel the smoothly edited archival documentary together. The quality of the footage is so compelling on its own that little is needed in terms of historical context or conventional storytelling fifty years on from the moon ...
Apollo 11: Directed by Todd Douglas Miller. With Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Deke Slayton. A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins.
How the 20th century’s most significant footage went from lost media to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Orlando, Florida – November 14, 2022 –In 2019, worldwide news broke about the ‘lost’ Apollo 11 moonwalk reels selling at auction for $1.82 million – officially deemed “erased and re...
David Sington was one of the first filmmakers to dig deep and find previously unused material for his excellent feature In the Shadow of the Moon (2007). Apollo 11’s Todd Douglas Miller made an even more dramatic discovery: large-format 65mm footage that was never processed, unseen for ...
A less elaborate video twist on the moon landing hoax was featured at moontruth.com, where web surfers could view a re-creation (or perhaps we should say "pre-creation") of the first moon landing, purportedly filmed in 1965; the footage is revealed to be studio fakery when a bank of ...
Like a lot of kids of my age at the time, I had followed the buildup in the months preceding the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing with much excitement. The flight of Apollo 7 in October 1968 tested the Command-Service Module (CSM) in low Earth orbit with a crew onboard for the first...
The original footage of the moon landing was recorded by two cameras — aHasselbladand a specially adapted Westinghouse television camera that was mounted to the hatch of the Lunar Module to capture Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. The Westinghouse camera was detechable and was later place...
a total of 11,000 hours, most of which has never been heard before. Where available there’s film and video footage, along with photographs, a lot of it taken by the astronauts themselves, and all in the best possible quality. So if you thi...