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Unseen Moon Landing Video Released
bazzalunatic writes "Digitally remastered footage of the moon landing, including high-quality and brighter images of Neil Armstrong stepping off the ladder will be shown for the first time ever to the general public at an awards ceremony in Sydney, Australia. The magnetic data tapes seem to have all been lost — erased — by NASA, so all that's left are VHS recordings, which have been restored, giving the best-ever film of the whole moon landing. The publicity over this seems to be pushing NASA into releasing the whole 3-hour recording."
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There was no Video Home System when the moon landings happened. There was reel to reel tape, and cinescope, but no VHS until 1976.
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I'll hold out for the inevitable 3D Extended Edition BluRay Director's Cut.
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I heard on Slashdot that Lucas is remaking this in 3D, next year.
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The 30th anniversary of what? The 10-year reunion?
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An old man, sitting in his couch, watching himself in an old college football match. Repeating over and over the twenty seconds where he scored a touchdown.
But the old man isn't really old. He has a strong, young body. He could stand up and go play another football match. Score another touchdown. But he's too tired, so he'll just play the old tape. Over and over again.
They are saying that only a VHS tape of the landing is left, and that all the original tapes were erased/lost/destroyed. But this new tape is FROM one of those original tapes, albeit from the Sydney archives who relayed the data since they were part of the line-of-sight network to communicate with the astronauts.
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Yes, the idiots reused the tape.
As long as the Australian presenter doesn't announce that it was Buzz Aldrin who got off the ladder first.
I hear in this version Buzz Aldrin shoots first.
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SOP.
Tapes where expensive and took a while to get. SOP was to reuse the tapes.
Hey, you wouldn't want them wasting tax dollars on a tape that would just be sitting around, would you?
It's important to remember the context. From pretty much everyones point of view, they would be going to the moon so often it wouldn't be a big deal.
And they where only reused one they had been ensured it had been taped for broad cast. That meant there where many copies in many formats. well 3 formats I think.
There was also a format issue in the 80's the made them reuse tapes for a period. IIRC
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"high-quality and brighter images of Neil Armstrong stepping off the ladder"
Oh, good, the remastered moon landing. In a year or two we'll get the special edition, with all new special effects. The once-lifeless moon will have all manner of alien life. Probably the golf ball will swing first at the astronauts.
Additional footage of the astronauts' training will be released, but it will be unpopular with fans of the oringal moon landing. Much of the criticism will focus on a goofy sidekick they meet, who somehow seems to play an important role in spite of being a babbling fool.
Later there will be a DVD release with the SE footage alongside the video as it originally aired. HD and 3D versions will follow eventually.
The source tapes were from Australia. The highest quality video from the moon landing were in Australia. Since they decided to land on the moon early, the US was under the horizon, so they transmitted to Australia instead.
Digitally rerendered footage of the moon landing, ...