Five decades later after the moon landing, viewers will be able to immerse themselves in the coverage again.
“The moonshot was the one place where Walter Cronkite’s patriotism could not be questioned,” said Michael Socolow, associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, and the son of Cronkite’s longtime producer, Sandy Socolow. “It was finally good news in the context of the Cold War and American innovation and ingenuity. It was kind of a restoration and looking ahead at the ’70s instead of the bad news of the ’60s.
Celebrity interviews and panels also filled the hours between the live shots of the launch and the black-and-white TV images, picked up by a 7 1/2-pound Westinghouse camera, that were beamed back to Earth from the moon. “Apollo 11” director Todd Douglas Miller had heard rumors that such footage existed but believed much of it was related to the NASA-commissioned production of a 1970 documentary called “Moonwalk,” which was released in 35-millimeter. After searching for several months, Miller was contacted by an archivist about sealed cans of 70-millimeter film sitting in cold storage at the National Archives, some of which were labeled “Apollo 11.
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