{"id":8158,"date":"2019-01-30T09:02:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2019-01-30T09:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:02:51","slug":"new-65mm-apollo-11-looks-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/30\/new-65mm-apollo-11-looks-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"New 65mm &#8220;Apollo 11&#8221; looks amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am, as the kids would say, <em>there<\/em> for this documentary:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Co8Z8BQgWc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film is comprised entirely of archival footage and audio:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Miller and his team collaborated with NASA and the National Archives (NARA) to locate all of the existing footage from the Apollo 11 mission. In the course of sourcing all of the known imagery, NARA staff members made a discovery that changed the course of the project \u2014 an unprocessed collection of 65mm footage, never before seen by the public. Unbeknownst to even the NARA archivists, the reels contained wide format scenes of the Saturn V launch, the inside of the Launch Control Center and post-mission activities aboard the USS Hornet aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n<p>The find resulted in the project evolving from one of only filmmaking to one of also film curation and historic preservation. The resulting transfer \u2014 from which the documentary was cut \u2014 is the highest resolution, highest quality digital collection of Apollo 11 footage in existence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I also loved this music video made using mission audio &amp; imagery:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BHIo6qwJarI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3Co8Z8BQgWc\">YouTube 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BHIo6qwJarI\">2<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/19\/01\/trailer-for-apollo-11-a-documentary-based-on-pristine-65mm-footage-of-the-mission\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am, as the kids would say, there for this documentary: The film is comprised entirely of archival footage and audio: Miller and his team collaborated with NASA and the National Archives (NARA) to locate all of the existing footage from the Apollo 11 mission. In the course of sourcing all of the known imagery, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8159,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/8159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}