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New 'Apollo 11' Documentary Makers Discovered Never-Seen-Before Mission Footage (collectspace.com)
This year's Sundance Film Festival opened with a new 93-minute documentary crafted entirely from archival footage of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, reports collectSpace -- including some never seen before:
In the course of sourcing all of the known imagery, the National Archives (NARA) staff members made a discovery that changed the course of the project -- an unprocessed collection of 65mm footage, never before seen by the public. Unbeknownst to even the NARA archivists, the reels contained wide format scenes of the Saturn V launch, the inside of the Launch Control Center and post-mission activities aboard the USS Hornet aircraft carrier... The resulting transfer -- from which the documentary was cut -- is the highest resolution, highest quality digital collection of Apollo 11 footage in existence. "We knew that the clock was ticking, this material had been sitting around for 50 years," said director Todd Douglas Miller, commenting on the motivation behind the film scanning effort.
The other unexpected find was a massive cache of audio recordings -- more than 11,000 hours -- comprising the individual tracks from 60 members of the Mission Control team. "Apollo 11" film team members wrote code to restore the audio and make it searchable and then began the multi-year process of listening to and documenting the recordings. The effort yielded new insights into key events of the moon landing mission, as well as surprising moments of humor and camaraderie. "Much of the footage in 'Apollo 11' is, by virtue of both access and proper preservation, utterly breathtaking," wrote The Hollywood Reporter's Daniel Fienberg in his review of the film. "The sense of scale, especially in the opening minutes, sets the tone as [the] rocket is being transported to the launch pad and resembles nothing so much as a scene from 'Star Wars' only with the weight and grandeur that come from 6.5 million pounds of machinery instead of CG."
The other unexpected find was a massive cache of audio recordings -- more than 11,000 hours -- comprising the individual tracks from 60 members of the Mission Control team. "Apollo 11" film team members wrote code to restore the audio and make it searchable and then began the multi-year process of listening to and documenting the recordings. The effort yielded new insights into key events of the moon landing mission, as well as surprising moments of humor and camaraderie. "Much of the footage in 'Apollo 11' is, by virtue of both access and proper preservation, utterly breathtaking," wrote The Hollywood Reporter's Daniel Fienberg in his review of the film. "The sense of scale, especially in the opening minutes, sets the tone as [the] rocket is being transported to the launch pad and resembles nothing so much as a scene from 'Star Wars' only with the weight and grandeur that come from 6.5 million pounds of machinery instead of CG."
That guy was so demanding.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Unfortunately for you, a working set of eyes does not equate to a working brain.
You think maybe they landed on different parts of the moon?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
One's near side, one's far side. Different conditions. Very different.
One side has been blasted from space, the other has had very few impacts - might be due to a bloody great planet shielding it.
One is mostly igneous rock, one is mostly silicate.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Whoever thought it was a good idea to have the treble on the drums turned up and blasting every second should be strapped to a chair in an anechoic chamber, fitted with headphones, and forced to listen to that music continuously for 24 hours.
That was shit music. If you're going to use drums for something like this, you use bass. On low.
P.S. the quote at the bottom: I put up my thumb... and it blotted out the planet Earth. -- Neil Armstrong
The 1990s. It had a few oddballs, but I liked the site back then. People were generally NICE. Friendly. Supportive.
We didn't need registration for a long time, people could be trusted to enter their own username. I only registered when it became mandatory, or I would have had a lower UID.
When "top secret" Scientology texts were published on Slashdot, almost all of us defended the poster's right to do so. There was no trolling or shaming, no modding out of sight because some power user didn't like it, no mass army of sock puppets drowning the discussion.
People from the NSA were offering interviews with Slashdot, such was the credibility of the site. They don't do that for just anyone.
Katz was getting interviews with a whole bunch of other folk in government, because Slashdot mattered and people here listened.
When I talked to CmdrTaco, readership was running at 100,000 a day, more than many national newspapers.
In those days, trolls were the ones who were silenced and conspiracy nutters were left out.
I think Perenz and I are the only two left of that generation.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Why do you refer to the far side of the moon to be "dark, cold" as opposed to the near side being "bright, warm"? I don't believe the earth warms the moon by any significant degree.
When things don't make sense, first check to see if what you think is sense actually is.
The Van Allen belts aren't a problem. NASA has never said otherwise.
You say blue screen, I say prove it.
Why should hair wave? Can you list the forces acting upon it?
The universe is not accountable for your lack of knowledge. If you don't understand, learn.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Nobody can repeat the Concorde either. Did the Concorde exist?
Mostly random stuff.