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Topic: Apollo 11 (2019)
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Mark Ogden
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Posts: 943
From: Little Falls, N.J.
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 03-05-2019 02:03 PM
In what passes for IMAX at the AMC Garden State Theaters, Paramus, New Jersey.
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In the 1960s NASA made a deal with MGM to make a documentary about the Apollo program and the run-up to the moon landing, and they in turn hired producer Francis Thompson to actually put the project together. When MGM bailed out a while later, NASA bade Thompson to carry on, and he and his editor Theo Kamacke eventually put together a little-seen documentary called Moonwalk One, which came and went from theaters in 1971.
Flashing forward to a few years ago, NASA contacted documentary filmmaker Todd Douglas Miller about putting together a movie commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing. Miller began researching archival footage and was astonished to find that the NASA archive was sitting on all the footage shot for the previous film, including 165 rolls of pristine 70mm Todd-AO of behind-the-scenes activities that nobody had ever seen before, and miles of 16 and 35mm footage as well.
The result is this film, a very well assembled look at the mission featuring all this previously unseen material. The filmmaker has also used wild-audio tracks of NASA communications and has post synchronized them to film footage in the same manner as Peter Jackson did for They Shall Not Grow Old, you now see for the first time mission controllers speaking the voice communications themselves. There’s a great deal of in-capsule and on-the-moon footage from the astronauts themselves that I do not recall seeing before. What’s best is that the original photographers shot a great deal of footage of all the spectators at the launch, the picture is in some ways a real time capsule of old fashion styles and deceased brand names. I also appreciated the no-narrator approach, all the audio is actual if sometimes hard to clearly understand.
There’s nothing especially new or revelatory about Apollo 11 here, but it’s very interesting to see what was previously unseen, and it’s worth a look for space junkies and nostalgia-nauts. Good music track too.
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