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On July 20th, 1969, the world watched Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for mankind, but behind these iconic images is an unseen story. Now, 50 years later, Discovery and Science Channel will celebrate the Apollo 11 moon landing with a two-hour television event, Apollo: The Forgotten Films, that will tell the complete story of this most audacious of missions, with footage not seen anywhere else. The archives reveal the incredible lengths an army of engineers, scientists and astronauts went to, to achieve America’s greatest technological feat. Apollo: The Forgotten Films, premiering summer 2019, employs footage from a number of different resources including NASA Research Centers, The National Archives, and news reports of the time. Having sifted through thousands of reels of film, this amazing trove is a remarkable behind the scenes look at the exhaustive preparation that went into sending the first humans to our moon. (Discovery Networks)
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As far as the quality of the restored footage is concerned, I was a little put off by this year's documentary Apollo 11, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy The Forgotten Films all the same. True, this documentary is classic through and through, and I was sorry to see that it came to the cinemas with the typically harmful Czech documentary dubbing (the Czech voices lack emotion, you almost can't tell when the narrator is speaking and when the period footage is being heard, not to mention the oddities of translation), but in short – the footage that mattered made up for everything. Apart from some great views of the moon (and apart from the shots of the hapless Apollo 1 crew – they really must have filmed it all!), I particularly liked the scenes of the astronauts' ground training – at the volcano in Hawaii, in the desert,and in the rainforest. The 1969 film bounces nicely back in time and, unlike the aforementioned Apollo 11, counts on a viewer who doesn't know much about the conquest of the moon but would like to.
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