Over the years, I've collected bits and pieces of the US networks' coverage (i.e. CBS, NBC, and ABC) of the Apollo 11 mission. There have been a few compilations re-broadcast over the last two decades, the 20th anniversary being the most prominent. CBS has released two separate versions of these on VHS tape (and CED and Laservision disk). The first was issued around 1981, and the second in 1989. The former has also been recently found in DVD format. In 1994, ABC sold a condensed 6-hour VHS set of their coverage. A&E broadcast some of the NBC coverage back in 1989.
Many years ago, I saw the original CBS moonwalk coverage at the Museum of Television and Radio (now Paley Center for Media) in New York. I hope someday CBS will release the entire coverage for nuts like me who would gladly purchase it!
The video segment shown below is the introduction portion of the CBS coverage prior to launch and is reconstructed from two sources. The bulk is from a PBS NOVA segment "Twenty-Five Years in Space," originally shown 12/06/1983. A portion of the sound is from the CBS CED disc "Man on the Moon." Two years after I created this edit, I stumbled on the missing commercial interstitial from Kellogg which appeared in the DVD release of "In the Shadow of the Moon." Unfortunately, that short segment is not included here.
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Thanks so much for posting this intro. My father, Jaime Mendoza-Nava, wrote the intro music heard in this video. I've not seen this piece since I was a child. Dad was extremely proud to be connected in a small way to this historic moment in humankind's history. As children, my siblings and I would run to the television to hear his music as the CBC coverage began and then like others around the world became entranced by what we witnessed. Dad used a synthesizer to create the opening sounds, what he termed, "electronic winds." He then composed a piece entitled, "Western Overture" which used the rhythms of a Bolivian carnavalito. He loved the United States and wanted to use part of his Bolivian heritage to celebrate what he considered an amazing human achievement. The following URL is for a site about my dad that contains the recording of the Western Overture: http://jaimemendozanava.webs.com. I'd also very much appreciate a copy of this video file. Thanks again. Jaime I. Mendoza
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