A Pollo Oncé (no chickens were harmed in the making of this film...)
A(nother) documentary about the first moon landing.
It's an epic tale about three guys in a can about the size of a VW going on a short trip that always fascinates me. A few years ago I was at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum and in a time crunch to see all the things at all the museums before they closed. We just did a quick run through and I notices at the time, the Columbia (Apollo 11's Command Module), was hung over the inside of the entrance. They were doing a lot of construction. We managed to make a little more time and return on Saturday, but it was a mad house. The lines were out both sides of the museum. Tons of small people. When we finally got in, I noticed that the Columbia was gone. I found it later, temporarily parked in a corner, behind a rope, next to some other exhibit. No one looking at it. I was standing right next to her by myself which was pretty special....
This film came about because a bunch of "never before seen" 65mm footage was discovered recently. The story is told chronologically, using just the footage and audio recordings from the event. No interviews, no real back story in to any character or post story, or what was going on in the world at the time. Just a lot of pretty amazing clips connected with other clips and occasionally some very basic explainer animations and from time to time, some counters for context which build excitement. Nice soundtrack by Matt Morton, too.
https://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/apollo...1455389986
This movie reminded me a lot of "For All Mankind" by Al Reinhart which was also a movie created from all of the NASA archival footage. That movie came out in 1989 after a very long gestation period. Brian Eno, along with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno did the soundtrack, but that soundtrack album "Apollo Atmospheres and Soundtracks" came out six years before the movie was finally released.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo:_At...oundtracks
--tg
A(nother) documentary about the first moon landing.
It's an epic tale about three guys in a can about the size of a VW going on a short trip that always fascinates me. A few years ago I was at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum and in a time crunch to see all the things at all the museums before they closed. We just did a quick run through and I notices at the time, the Columbia (Apollo 11's Command Module), was hung over the inside of the entrance. They were doing a lot of construction. We managed to make a little more time and return on Saturday, but it was a mad house. The lines were out both sides of the museum. Tons of small people. When we finally got in, I noticed that the Columbia was gone. I found it later, temporarily parked in a corner, behind a rope, next to some other exhibit. No one looking at it. I was standing right next to her by myself which was pretty special....
This film came about because a bunch of "never before seen" 65mm footage was discovered recently. The story is told chronologically, using just the footage and audio recordings from the event. No interviews, no real back story in to any character or post story, or what was going on in the world at the time. Just a lot of pretty amazing clips connected with other clips and occasionally some very basic explainer animations and from time to time, some counters for context which build excitement. Nice soundtrack by Matt Morton, too.
https://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/apollo...1455389986
This movie reminded me a lot of "For All Mankind" by Al Reinhart which was also a movie created from all of the NASA archival footage. That movie came out in 1989 after a very long gestation period. Brian Eno, along with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno did the soundtrack, but that soundtrack album "Apollo Atmospheres and Soundtracks" came out six years before the movie was finally released.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo:_At...oundtracks
--tg