Apollo 11 Moon landing film has sound restored

[AdamSmith]

Heightens the drama all over again. (Article is from 2010; I just now discovered it.)

Apollo 11 Moon landing film has sound restored

A British filmmaker has painstakingly synchronised footage recorded during the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 with its corresponding audio.

Video link here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-video/7900351/Apollo-11-Moon-landing-film-has-sound-restored.html

This split screen montage combines footage from four different cameras used by Nasa to capture the moment Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon on July 20 1969.

While the images captured 41 years ago have regularly been seen, they have almost always lacked a synchronised soundtrack.

Now filmmaker Stephen Slater, working with archive film company Footagevault, has united the visual material with recordings of the original mission audio.

This video shows the moment the Lunar Module, called Eagle, separated from the Command Module, Columbia, to make its descent to the lunar surface. As the landing began, Armstrong reported they were "running long". Eagle was four seconds further along its descent trajectory than planned, and would land miles west of the intended site.

Armstrong's first words after landing were: "Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed."

Video courtesy of Footagevault

[RA1]

Very cool. You may be interested to know that I once was a partner in a waterbed store called Tranquility Base. About 1970.

Best regards,

RA1