From: Freya (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Jul 17 2009 - 11:52:42 PDT
Saw this too. I especially loved the quote from Neil Armstrong at the end:
Through a letter read at a news conference Thursday, Armstrong had the last word about the video from the moon: "I was just amazed that there was any picture at all."
:)
love
Freya
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Adam Hyman <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Adam Hyman <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: London events - Time and Space, 19 July 2009
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 5:17 PM
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> Re: London events - Time and Space, 19 July
> 2009
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> There was a more detailed story on
> it today. It appears that at some point in the 1970s
> or 1980s they needed more tapes, so to save money the reused
> upwards of 200,000 of the tapes that were lying around (from
> more missions than just Apollo 11), and they are quite sure
> that the original moon landing tapes were tapes over.
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> Also, the tapes contained much of the data being sent at
> the same time, and once the data was transferred, they
> weren’t seen as being so important.
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> So Lowry Digital in Burbank is doing some digital
> restoration on various dubs and broadcasts of the events.
> The originals are gone though.
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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090716/ap_on_sc/us_sci_moon_video;_ylt=Aoe9cduDd.GE3IUmtQs3Rvx0fNdF
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> On 7/17/09 8:17 AM, "Dinorah de Jesús
> Rodriguez" <email suppressed> wrote:
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> truly.
> you'd think that the same culture that can keep
> Walt Disney on ice for over half a century could figure out
> where to store videotapes.... have they looked on
> ebay?
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> enjoy today...
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> Dinorah de Jesús
> Rodríguez
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> Film/Video Artist and Freelance Writer
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> www.solislandmediaworks.com <http://web.mac.com/sol.island/iWeb/>
> <http://artcinematic.blogspot.com/>
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> www.artcinematic.blogspot.com <http://artcinematic.blogspot.com/>
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> http://cinesthesia.blip.tv <http://cinesthesia.blip.tv/>
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> On Jul 17, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Tom B Whiteside wrote:
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> This program sounds wonderful. And speaking of Time and
> Space, is it not downright astonishing that NASA seems to
> have lost the original videotapes of the first moon landing?
> They had developed a high resolution video format for that
> mission, what we saw on television was a downgraded
> version.... but now 40 years later they no longer have
> the originals, they were probably erased and recorded over.
> That unique video format would have been somewhat equivalent
> to Hi-Def today (or so I've heard). BTW, the recorder is
> still up there, I would love to have it for my collection
> and will pay good money to anyone who can fetch it.
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> The watercolors painted by Englishman John White 420 years
> ago on his visit to Roanoke Island in the "New
> World" still exist, they are in the British Museum. But
> 40 year old videotapes......... let's see, now
> where did I put those things? White's paintings
> were translated into engravings and published in 1590 and
> have pretty much been in print ever since that time - but
> the engravings were made by someone who never set foot in
> the Western Hemisphere, details were changed considerably.
> It is very helpful to also have the originals, they were
> painted on location. For example, I recall subsequent
> versions of the moon landing in which the astronaut was
> flying a flag for MTV, which I do believe is an anachronism
> ........
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> I remember watching the moon landing on tv, the first shot
> of Armstrong's descent of the ladder was (briefly)
> upside down. Made sense to me, the moon was "up
> there" you know, maybe everything was upside down. I
> was only a kid, but perhaps that moment planted the seed for
> my becoming an experimental filmmaker.
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> - Tom
> Whiteside
> Durham,
> North Carolina
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