A few weekends ago, CBS Sunday Morning did a nice tribute, both to the man (Walter Cronkite), and the mission (Apollo 11). This nicely edited piece has the normal stock footage that you normally see, as well as some choice video and audio highlights from the coverage. As I mentioned in previous posts, I wish that CBS could release more of the "as it happened" video, as did ABC did many years ago. The bits and pieces that appear on youtube are tantalizing. The portions that I did view at the Paley Media Center are in excellent shape. CBS video was recently used in the NASA restoration project of the moonwalk coverage (due to be released sometime this fall). The source material has been well preserved.
I'm out on vacation for a few days. I'll check back in sometime next week.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
CBS Apollo 11 Coverage
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.
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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