Post by Paul Vanezis on Nov 16, 2007 13:56:41 GMT
Hi all.
I was looking through some old VT recordings of Apollo moon coverage the other day and one of the tapes I was looking at was an insert tape for the November 1970 edition of 'The Sky at Night'. This was the programme with the taped interview between Patrick Moore and Neil Armstrong.
The insert tape had a compilation of the Apollo 11 mission from the previous year and initially I thought it had all come from the raw satellite feed tapes which still exist. However, when a clip from the moment of the actual landing appeared, it had a static 'keyed' caption saying "Mission Control, Houston" which is not on the BBC satellite recording of the same... and then James Burke can be heard attempting to say "Touchdown" in studio crystal clear quality.
Clearly the PasB recordings did indeed exist at least up until November 1969, unless that spool was recorded for a previous 'Sky at Night'. In addition, a 1971 'Tomorrows World Special - One Small Step' features a section of film recording of the first step on the moon, with an electronic caption "Live from the surface of the moon" burnt into the film recording. I haven't been able to work out if this is a BBC film recording or from elsewhere. If anyone knows the whereabouts of any off screen stills of this coverage, I would like to see them.
Cheers,
Paul
I was looking through some old VT recordings of Apollo moon coverage the other day and one of the tapes I was looking at was an insert tape for the November 1970 edition of 'The Sky at Night'. This was the programme with the taped interview between Patrick Moore and Neil Armstrong.
The insert tape had a compilation of the Apollo 11 mission from the previous year and initially I thought it had all come from the raw satellite feed tapes which still exist. However, when a clip from the moment of the actual landing appeared, it had a static 'keyed' caption saying "Mission Control, Houston" which is not on the BBC satellite recording of the same... and then James Burke can be heard attempting to say "Touchdown" in studio crystal clear quality.
Clearly the PasB recordings did indeed exist at least up until November 1969, unless that spool was recorded for a previous 'Sky at Night'. In addition, a 1971 'Tomorrows World Special - One Small Step' features a section of film recording of the first step on the moon, with an electronic caption "Live from the surface of the moon" burnt into the film recording. I haven't been able to work out if this is a BBC film recording or from elsewhere. If anyone knows the whereabouts of any off screen stills of this coverage, I would like to see them.
Cheers,
Paul
