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Old 11-12-2018, 08:45 AM
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Apollo 11 IMAX documentary to include newly uncovered 65mm Panavision footage

David Kamp reports today in Variety on a 90 minute documentary entitled
"Apollo 11" by film maker Todd Douglas Miller which will have its
debut at the Sundance Film Festival this coming January.

Miller had contacted Dan Rooney, a film and video archivist at the
US National Archives and Records Administration.

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In May of last year, Miller received a startling e-mail from Rooney. “I was used to the way in which archivists and librarians communicate, which is typically very monotone, very even keel,” Miller said. “But I get this e-mail from Dan, and it’s just insanely long and full of exclamation points and bolded words.” Rooney’s staff had located a cache of largely unprocessed film that he identified as the “65mm Panavision collection.” (In this format, the negative is shot on 65-mm. film and then printed as a 70-mm. positive.) “The collection consists of approximately 165 source reels of materials, covering Apollo 8 through Apollo 13,” Rooney wrote. “Thus far, we have definitively identified 61 of those 165 that relate directly to the Apollo 11 mission, including astronaut mission preparations, launch, recovery, and astronaut engagement and tours after the mission.”
When they first viewed the 65mm footage, shot during the lead-up to
launch, their jaws dropped. It has now been transferred to digital.

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Early one morning this past summer, I joined a small group of people who had gathered at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C., for a private screening of Apollo 11’s first 30 minutes. On the giant screen, the film looked spectacular, in particular the launch: infernal and rumbling up close, as the Saturn V’s five F-1 engines burn 5,700 pounds of kerosene and liquid oxygen per second, and a gorgeous spectacle from a patch of grass few miles away, where a young woman in purple-tinted bubble sunglasses takes photos with her camera, smiling as she snaps.

When the lights came up in the museum’s Imax theater, Miller took questions and comments from the audience. One fellow near the back, at age 87 the oldest at the gathering, happened to be a former director of the Air and Space Museum. He pronounced what he had just witnessed “magnificent.” He did note, however, that the film’s launch sequence, as effective as he found it, doesn’t quite capture the jerky lateral motion that the astronauts felt after liftoff, which he likened to being inside “a wide car being driven by a novice down a narrow road.” One might have been inclined to ask the old-timer how he could be so damned sure of this, were it not for the fact that he was none other than Michael Collins, Major General U.S.A.F. (Ret.) and NASA astronaut from 1963 to 1970.

Armstrong’s two sons, Rick and Mark, were also present at the screening. As boys, aged 12 and 6, respectively, they had watched the launch live with their mother, from a boat in the Banana River, near Cape Canaveral. Of Miller’s film, Rick Armstrong told me afterward, “The combination of the footage quality and the way it was edited made me feel like I was watching it in real time.”
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Cool

The trailer came out three days ago and the 70mm footage that was shot
on the day of the launch and which was only recently "discovered"
is looking breathtaking.

https://youtu.be/K5JtxB8KVm0
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Looks Truely Epic
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The trailer came out three days ago and the 70mm footage that was shot
on the day of the launch and which was only recently "discovered"
is looking breathtaking.
APOLLO 11 Movie website
APOLLO 11 Official Teaser and Official Trailer from NEON, on Youtube.

Really looking forwards to seeing this.
I still remember seeing the Space Shuttle stuff at the IMAX at Dreamworld back when Dreamworld was still new. That was near on 27 years ago now.
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Old 12-03-2019, 09:34 AM
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A 10 March 2019 article by Ivan Couronne at AFP reports more on the
trove of material that was uncovered at the U.S. National Archives.

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The film -- which premiered at Sundance in January but only hit US theaters this weekend -- injects new life into the most famous space mission of all time, which transfixed the world from July 16-24, 1969.

It blends images that are well known with long lost gems found in a National Archives warehouse and digitized for the first time.

"A good 50 percent of the film is images that have never been seen before but really, 100 percent of it has really never truly been seen before -- the quality of it all," director Todd Douglas Miller told AFP in a recent interview.

The visuals are mesmerizing: seen in color in a theater, the tracks of the giant NASA crawler-transporter -- used to carry the massive Saturn V rocket that launched the crew into space -- fill the entire screen.

The captivating shots were a few of the many found on 177 65mm reels uncovered by Dan Rooney, supervisory archivist of the National Archives film section,

They were found poorly labeled, without any real indication of their contents except for a generic "Apollo 11," at a storage facility in the Maryland suburbs where the temperature was below freezing.

"We knew these large format holdings existed, but it took a lot of research to really understand what was there," said Rooney, who worked with Miller to bring the reels to the silver screen.

“The real discovery part was in the research that led us to a lot of new information about the content and the quality of the material."

All told, the Archives provided the film crew with 279 reels of 16, 35, 65 and 70 mm film.
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Reading about the film is nice, but I'd like to actually be able to see it, preferably before 2019 is over.
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Reading about the film is nice, but I'd like to actually be able to see it, preferably before 2019 is over.
Hi Jen,

Same here!

Though it was released for one week in IMAX cinemas in the U.S.
on 1st March, no release date has been announced for Australia yet.

The IMAX cinema in Sydney is closed, is being re-built and will not open
until 2020.

The IMAX cinema in Melbourne is still open.

As the original footage was 65mm, I'm hopeful that it will be at least released
on screens wide enough to do that justice, such as the Event cinemas VMAX
theatres.

As it has had some coverage in the Australian press, I am hopeful we
will get a screening before the decade is out.

If anyone does spot an Australian release date announcement please post it here!
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Opens IMAX Melbourne 11th July 2019 :-
https://imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/a...max_experience
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Looking very much like Brisbane won't get to see the film.
As for heading down to Melbourne to see it, I don't have $1500 to spare.
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Limited showings at the Sydney Film Festival :-

https://sff.org.au/program/browse/apollo-11
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Booked June session in Casula.
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Saw it this arvo at the casula power house with my daughter Emilie. I reckon I didn't blink or said a word for the whole duration. What a great doco. I wonder if they will ever release it on bluray. So much to see and digest. Need to watch it again and again to really appreciate all the content.
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Went last night to IMAX Melbourne to watch this, thought it was good but not great. It did give you an appreciation of the size of the operation/program and some impressive footage.
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I wonder if they will ever release it on bluray
I believe it’s already been released on BluRay in the US, hopefully there will be a release for our region in the near future.
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At Event Cinemas This Week - limited showings!

Apollo 11 is currently showing for the next few days at limited sessions
at Event Cinemas around Australia.

The newly discovered 65mm footage of launch day is fabulous.

For those of us not present in Florida on the day for the launch, it is now
as close as we will ever feel to being present.

The minutiae of the world becomes more evident on the big screen.

For example, I was struck by the heat and humidity the outdoor
spectators appeared to endure, made evident by the glare of the sun
on their faces, the sweat on their foreheads and by their willingness to
wear silly looking giveaway fold-out cardboard caps.

In the VIP section we see several shots of Johnny Carson and as he enters
the stand he appears to be walking alongside Issac Asimov.

As the film progresses through each of the daisy chain of events that
had to go right for the mission to succeed and for the crew to survive,
it is enhanced by the mixing of both the communications between the
crew and CAPCOM and that between controllers extracted from recently
released 30-track "back loops".

Houston had two 30-track tape recorders which recorded all conversations
between all of the controllers.

We hear one of them asking another controller whether he heard about
the Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick incident, the news of which was being
somewhat eclipsed by the moon landing.

The small annotation of fuel remaining and altitude in the corner of
the screen as the 16mm camera mounted at Eagle's window shows
the descent to the lunar surface, leaves the heart racing.

The Flight Surgeon reports Armstrong's had reached 150 beats-per-minute.

I liked Matt Morton's music soundtrack.
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Fantastic, thanks Gary.
This will make the perfect end to the day for my birthday on July 20th . NASA exhibition plus this while celebrating the 50th moon landing anniversary.... perfect!
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Happy Birthday Suzy, enjoy the movie. I saw it last night with my son, fantastic !!! Going to Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station tomorrow morning with staff from 1969 and Andy Thomas et al...

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Thanks for the heads up Gary!
Been eagerly waiting since you first mentioned it.
Finally Saw it yesterday at Event Tuggerah.
What a Great documentary.
It still amazes me, 50 years on.
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