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Post by Jeff S on Dec 18, 2003 17:44:27 GMT
Movietone News (similar to Pathe News) did some off-air filming of the colour BBC 2 broadcast(s). Could the footage have originated from there ?
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Post by William Martin on Dec 19, 2003 13:29:38 GMT
do you have more info on this, it sounds promising
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Post by Jeff S on Dec 20, 2003 21:35:06 GMT
Well, Movietone News produced at least one newsreel looking back at the moonlanding. Part of this reel presented the momentous events "as-the-average-British-family-would-have-experienced-them." Thus, we get the family, in their pyjamas, clustered in front of the television at "3 am," and sequences, filmed directly from a TV set, showing what they supposedly would have been watching. Some of these sequences fill the whole frame, so the edges are cropped, but others show the TV screen in its entirety. All display flickering, and the "scanning bands" mentioned in earlier posts. A great deal of the footage is the usual NASA feed: the moon from space, Armstrong and Aldrin bobbing about on the surface, Mission Control, etc. Two of the clips are more interesting, however. The first of these starts with a close-up of an altimeter, which fades into a colour model sequence of the Lunar Module touching down (this looks very Moonbase 3 to me, so I'm assuming it was done by the BBC...). The other clip is an inter-programme continuity slide, again in colour, of the BBC 2 Colour ident, sharing the screen with a well-known photo of Apollo 10's CM above the moon.
So, this would appear to suggest that Movietone (or whoever produced the film for them) might well have filmed a significant portion of the TV broadcasts. Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell for certain if all the clips were filmed from the same channel, or even on the same night. However, we can but hope that the film-makers simply set up a camera in front of the TV and filmed everything (from BBC 2 ?) until their film ran out, then edited it down later - leading to some extremely interesting offcuts...
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Post by William Martin on Dec 22, 2003 19:05:24 GMT
lets hope someone saved something, well worth looking into, and colour bbc, we need to get the address of their archive.
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