Spacecraft Films DVD releases

[stephenb (Stephen)]

Sometime ago I was fortunate enough to watch Mark Gray's fabulous DVD productions of the US space program. I was so impressed that I decided to purchase the first (of hopefully many) DVD box sets released by Spacecraft Films.

My first, and only purchase to date is Project Mercury.

Let me paint you a picture: Take every single piece of film footage you have every watched of the NASA's Mercury program - every launch, every splashdown - from every TV show, movie and documentary. Then multiply that by ten! That is how much archival footage is on this 6-disc set. Now having a long-time interest in the US space program, I thought I'd seen everything. Well, I was stunned! There is footage in this set that I could never imagine existed. Here are just some highlights:

• Project Mercury - An original one-hour documentary detailing the development and flight history of Project Mercury.
  

• The Astronauts - Project Mercury - NASA film on the selection and training of the Original Seven Astonauts. Features a score by the USAF Orchestra.

• Selection Medicine - Footage from several examples of the testing done during the selection of the original seven, including Carpenter, Slayton, Grissom and Glenn during testing.

• Selection Press Conference - Announcement of the selection of the original seven astronauts, April 9, 1959. The press conference is not complete.

• Footage of Weightlessness, Procedures and Centrifuge Training.

• Hours of high speed film footage of every Mercury launch, on-board film footage, complete audio of the missions from launch to splashdown.

I cannot even begin to list everything here, so a full disc listing of the contents are at: http://02e5a89.netsolstores.com/proj...wfrontier.aspx


This box set hits about AUD$120 (including postage), but it's the most expensive set released by Spacecraft Films (The Project Gemini box set a lot less, about AUD$60). They also have a box set for every Apollo mission, several DVD's on the Saturn V, and the Space Shuttle.

Of course these DVD sets will only appeal to a small market, however if you are a space follower, you will truely appreciate the attention to detail and the committment which has gone into preserving so much archival material.


http://www.spacecraftfilms.com/



http://02e5a89.netsolstores.com/proj...wfrontier.aspx

[renormalised (Carl)]

Thanks for the head's up, Stephen. That'd be worth the money buying, for sure

[DavidU (Dave)]

Nice, I will be throwing some folding stuff at that.
Thanx for the heads up.

[astro744]

I have paid for a pre-order for Apollo:To The Moon over 3 years ago and am still waiting patiently. Looks like the release is soon after lengthy delays partly due to the discovery of new Apollo 11 footage that made the news last year. I was going to order other DVD's once I saw the Apollo DVD's and I probably will still do so as the re-mastering of the original footage looks to have been painstaklingly done to perfection from some of the preview videos that are on their web site. The colour rendition of the Mercury footage is remarkable.