Posts: 199 From: Lake Orion, Michigan Registered: Feb 2006
posted 07-18-2019 07:02 AM
CBS has just posted five hours of remastered videotape of it's Apollo 11 launch morning coverage on YouTube, complete with commercials. I'm assuming CBS will also be posting lunar landing day coverage too.
The videotape quality is outstanding.
ea757grrl Member
Posts: 729 From: South Carolina Registered: Jul 2006
posted 07-18-2019 08:57 AM
This is Christmas in July! Thank you for alerting us all. This is wonderful!
Jymp Member
Posts: 22 From: Registered: Jan 2012
posted 07-23-2019 05:39 AM
CBS should offer all the footage they have on DVD/Blu Ray, they'd sell big time.
David Carey Member
Posts: 782 From: Registered: Mar 2009
posted 07-24-2019 01:20 PM
CBS has posted the landing and splashdown recovery broadcasts. All interesting to scan through or watch; ads included are a great throwback.
Nice to see the Spiro Agnew VIP badge around the 4 hour mark of the launch broadcast during an interview with Walter Cronkite. Hadn't seen that before.
ea757grrl Member
Posts: 729 From: South Carolina Registered: Jul 2006
posted 07-25-2019 08:13 AM
I was concerned we wouldn't get the splashdown broadcast, but was very happy when I checked yesterday and there it was. There is so much in there that I've never seen in previous presentations of the recovery broadcast, and I was gratified to see it lasts all the way through President Nixon's departure from Hornet.
Also happy to see that CBS kept the lengthy credit roll at the end, a neat tribute to the dozens and dozens of professionals whose hard work brought this epic journey into the living room (and, 50 years later, into our computers).
astro-nut Member
Posts: 946 From: Washington, IL Registered: Jan 2006
posted 07-28-2019 03:07 PM
I just wish that CBS would release a special Apollo 11 50th commemorative DVD special edition of the original network coverage of the mission (launch, moonwalk, splashdown). It would be neat to be able to see it.
posted 07-18-2019 07:02 AM
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