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NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost
leetrout writes "I attended a media briefing held by NASA at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. this morning where they released restored video of the Apollo 11 mission. The clips released are about 40% of the total footage to be restored by September by Lowry Digital in Burbank, CA. Wired has all the clips. A couple remarkable comments made during the briefing included the opinion from the original footage search committee that the original slow scan footage (stored as a single track on telemetry tapes) has been lost forever as the tapes were likely recycled by the mid '80s (apparently common NASA practice). Also, that someone from the applied physics laboratory was in Australia converting the slow scan directly to video. This differs from NASA's goal of merely broadcasting the event, at which it was successful. Unfortunately, no one knows where those tapes of approximately two hours of footage are located."
It is truly amazing what you can "find" when you have unlimited access to huge amounts of supercomputing power.
;)
The render times are probably really impressive too.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Right next to the tape with Nixon's 18.5 minutes.
I would have liked the restored versions so much better if they hadn't replaced Neil Armstrong with Hayden Christiansen.
Basestar.
I am so ashamed of you.
"Dude, it's not like we can't just go to the moon again!"
I assumed they dismantled the film studio after the first one ...
Darn directors cuts! I *liked* the old version where you could see the Vaseline blur under the LM, and Armstrong shot first.
You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC
Yeah, I'll never get those two hours back.