Geophysical association cohosted this event. Good evening. Im david ferriero. Its a thrill to welcome you here. Whether youre here in the room with us or participating through facebook or youtube. And a special welcome to our cspan audience. Im pleased you could join us for tonights Program Small steps and giant leaps how apollo 11 shaped our understanding of earth and beyond. Tonights program is presented in parer inship with the American Geophysical union. Its made possible in part by the National Archives foundation through the generous support of the boeing company. We thank them for our support. For the next four days we are commemorating the 50th anniversary of the historic flight of apollo 11 and the first moon landing. Tomorrow night, well screen the recent celebrated documentary apollo 11 draft frd newly discovered video and audio recordings here at the National Archives. Following the film, bill barry will moderate a discussion with director todd douglas miller, thomas peters
The mission of carrying ben to the moon landing the pair and bringing them safely back. Like this is a movie 50 years in the making of the footage is original the voices are original no new shots no narration apollo 11 gives audiences a front row seat at the 1st manned moon landing as it really happened. The team of filmmakers used Brand New Technology to restore nasa footage from 1969. We were all dumb struck immediately at how beautiful the cinematography was the detail in the footage that we were seen was something i just had never seen before there was 3 or 4 of us in there over just speechless. Minutes and then we recreated the entire mission and 9 days so we have a timeline where you can look and see over 100. 00 tracks of audio and that took the better half of a year just to compile that we were working with 18000 hours of uncatalogued audio 11000 hours of which was from apollo 11 the thing that in a time that the that the official with what it is there that we had hundreds of r
Be able to. Call evan is very simply been given a mission carrying ben to the moon landing that and bringing them safely back. Like this is a movie 50 years in the making all the footage is original the voices are original no new shots no narration apollo 11 gives audiences a front row seat at the 1st manned moon landing as it really happened. The team of filmmakers used Brand New Technology to restore nasa footage from 1969. We were all dumb struck immediately at how beautiful the cinematography was the detail in the footage that we were seen was something i just had never seen before there was 3 or 4 of us in there over just speechless. Minutes and then we recreated the entire mission and 9 days so we have a timeline where you can look and see over 100. 00 tracks of audio and that took the better half of a year just to compile that we were working with 18000 hours of uncatalogued audio 11000 hours of which was from apollo 11 the cabinet and the that the fishbowl thats what it is ther
Mankind on this trip the enormity of this that something that only yesterday will be able to. Follow 11 is very simply been given the mission of carrying men to the moon landing that and bringing them safely back. Like this is a movie 50 years in the making all the footage is original the voices are original no new shots no narration apollo 11 gives audiences a front row seat at the 1st manned moon landing as it really happened. The team of filmmakers used Brand New Technology to restore nasa footage from 1969. We were all dumb struck immediately at how beautiful the cinematography was the detail in the footage that we were seen was something i just had never seen before there was 3 or 4 of us in there over just speechless. Minutes and then we recreated the entire mission and 9 days so we have a timeline where you can look and see over 100. 00 tracks of audio and that took the better half of a year just to compile that we were working with 18000 hours of uncatalogued audio 11000 hours
And a unique artist or is it 2 artists one person the ambidextrous talents of russ cena. But we begin today with a new documentary about the moon landing 50 years ago i can still remember vividly remember as a young boy how the whole world seemed to stop we watched in amazement as we saw live pictures being directly from the moon into our living rooms and incredible technological achievement at the time i also remember feeling a sense of global humanity that we as a planet where achieving great things and taking Great Strides well anyway heres a taste of apollo 11. This is the Lunar Mission like youve never seen it before the documentary apollo 11 turns us into witnesses of history. Like you know what you feel as far as responsibilities representing
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