Hi all,
I didn't see a thread here or in r/movies about the new doc "Apollo 11" which is playing in IMAX. Even if you've spent your whole life watching Apollo documentaries this film is a can't miss opportunity I assure you. Much of the pre-launch and launch footage is sourced from 65mm film that has never been presented before and much of it hadn't even been viewed at NASA before they lent it to the filmmakers. It was shot on a type of film developed for the military and produced for a partnership with a studio that fell through. The equipment to play it didn't even exist any more and special scanners had to be employed to play the footage.
The footage from those reels is incredible, nearly grain free as if it were shot yesterday. While we have all seen the same Saturn launch stock footage from decades, this new film gives several new perspectives and in a clarity that I've never seen. The IMAX presentation is gorgeious visually and the sound is bone shaking. Even the footage from inside Mission control or just viewing the crowds is transporting, like time travel. Throughout much of the film, they have taken the time to try to sync up the usual mission control audio chatter with the matching filmclips whereever possible. Even some of the footage from inside the Apollo 11 craft is new I believe, and much I've never seen included in any other docs, probably due to their low framerates.
There have been many, many documentaries about Apollo 11 and the whole Apollo program. We are lucky that the 50th anniversary of the moonlanding is being greeted with one of the absolute best. I definitely recommending finding the time this week to try to catch it before it gets pushed out of theaters.
Submitted March 02, 2019 at 01:16AM by AlanMorlock https://ift.tt/2GSdqfr
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