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@hippy
On Discovery Channel now there's Moonwalk One. It's great. Watch it.
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalk_One[/ame]
http://www.moonwalkone.com/
Moonwalk One is a feature-length documentary film about the flight of Apollo 11, which landed the first earthlings on the moon. Besides portraying the massive technological achievement of that event, the film places it in some historical context, and tries to capture the mood and feel of the people on Earth at the time when man first walked on another world.
In 2007 a group of producers was researching film footage known to have originated with Moonwalk One for a film about the overall Apollo program called In the Shadow of the Moon. One of the producers Christopher Riley tracked down the director Theo Kamecke for help with his questions, only to find that Theo still had two large steel shipping boxes containing the only 35mm print of the original film, sitting under his desk. (The original printing elements for Moonwalk One had been lost or misplaced by Technicolor when they closed down their operation in the 1970s). Over the next two years a consortium was put together to digitally restore the 35mm print and to re-release this director's cut on DVD in time for the 40th anniversary of the first walk on the moon. The DVD includes a director’s commentary, the story of the making of the film and other features. Discovery Channel in the UK have acquired this version and will be transmitting it with additional material featuring producer Chris Riley, from Monday July 20th.