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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
I didn't have any pre-information about this DVD.
Needless to say if you are interested in the Apollo missions and in particular
you were present when history was made then this DVD is for you.
It is made from a mixture of new and archive material but it is very evocative of that July morning in 1969.
The James Burke film inserts give you a good deal of background information about Apollo 11, craft and equipment.
So If you didn't stay up to see the moon landing or if you want to experience that
historical event on July 20th 1969 and get a feel of that actual day, then this is a DVD worth looking at.
Needless to say if you are interested in the Apollo missions and in particular
you were present when history was made then this DVD is for you.
It is made from a mixture of new and archive material but it is very evocative of that July morning in 1969.
The James Burke film inserts give you a good deal of background information about Apollo 11, craft and equipment.
So If you didn't stay up to see the moon landing or if you want to experience that
historical event on July 20th 1969 and get a feel of that actual day, then this is a DVD worth looking at.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Although the BBC has long since wiped the tapes of the broadcast made the night of the first Lunar Landing, this DVD does a great job of recreating the wonder of the event. Sir Patrick Moores passion for the Moon comes over as well as ever as he links the sections together. As well as the familiar shots of the launch, landing and first steps there are some rarer jems included too. The DVD includes segments recorded by James Burke explaining such aspects as the space suit, the bunker beneth the launch pad as well as filming inside an Apollo capsule and experiencing zero G in the air.
A great value DVD that really does add some material that I had never seen to my Apollo library.
A great value DVD that really does add some material that I had never seen to my Apollo library.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Although diminished in many peoples' minds today the Apollo programme was a huge and complex venture for man to visit our nearest neighbouring member of our Solar system. To a small boy it was a positively mind-blowing experience to witness the huge Saturn V rockets scything through the Earth's' atmosphere at staggering speeds, simultaneously imposing unimaginable G-Forces on its occupants. Less well-known to him at the time was the BBC's achievement of coordinating various television studio, film and videotape feeds into live nightly digests regarding the progress in the brave astronauts' perilous journey.
The BBC cleared out many thousands of hours of television during the archive purges of the Sixties and Seventies. Despite that, you'd think some significant events would have been retained and yes, while most elements have been preserved not, it seems, was the BBC's own recordings of the live studio coverage and of course the commentary that went with it. So what we have here is as faithful a reconstruction as possible, put together in a kind of bumper edition edited highlights from 1969's 'one small step for man' venture. And it is a good one, the countdown invoking memories of forty-plus years ago when just the idea of flying around the moon and back to earth was amazing enough.
The images of take off were as vivid as when I first saw them and all-in-all the entire sequence including inserted film segments from James Burke which helps round out the background information is as good as it'll get, plus one short segment from a very poor videotape copy from a BBC tape was recovered and added in. Forgive the quality but it's significance requires it's inclusion here. A little patience is required during the second half with the NASA footage from the moon's surface itself which perhaps these days is ponderous without the rapid-cutting of images such a project would be treated to today. But this should not be allowed to detract at all from the significance of the event itself unfolding before your eyes AND we even get a few multiple camera angles, a feat in itself that is made to appear perfectly normal despite the sheer depth of preparation that went into that as a tiny part of these missions.
So a big vote of thanks to the diligent team who put this excellent DVD together which stands as a reminder of man's tenacity in overcoming his physical limitations that emanated from a slightly less cynical period in his existence on Earth. I was proud to witness this achievement back then and am gladdened in having the chance of re-living it now.
The BBC cleared out many thousands of hours of television during the archive purges of the Sixties and Seventies. Despite that, you'd think some significant events would have been retained and yes, while most elements have been preserved not, it seems, was the BBC's own recordings of the live studio coverage and of course the commentary that went with it. So what we have here is as faithful a reconstruction as possible, put together in a kind of bumper edition edited highlights from 1969's 'one small step for man' venture. And it is a good one, the countdown invoking memories of forty-plus years ago when just the idea of flying around the moon and back to earth was amazing enough.
The images of take off were as vivid as when I first saw them and all-in-all the entire sequence including inserted film segments from James Burke which helps round out the background information is as good as it'll get, plus one short segment from a very poor videotape copy from a BBC tape was recovered and added in. Forgive the quality but it's significance requires it's inclusion here. A little patience is required during the second half with the NASA footage from the moon's surface itself which perhaps these days is ponderous without the rapid-cutting of images such a project would be treated to today. But this should not be allowed to detract at all from the significance of the event itself unfolding before your eyes AND we even get a few multiple camera angles, a feat in itself that is made to appear perfectly normal despite the sheer depth of preparation that went into that as a tiny part of these missions.
So a big vote of thanks to the diligent team who put this excellent DVD together which stands as a reminder of man's tenacity in overcoming his physical limitations that emanated from a slightly less cynical period in his existence on Earth. I was proud to witness this achievement back then and am gladdened in having the chance of re-living it now.
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