Moonwalk One

Moonwalk One is a featurelength documentary film about the flight of Apollo 11, which landed the first humans 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.

For the next few decades Moonwalk One was practically forgotten, even the original printing elements were lost by NASA or Technicolor. All that survived were a few 16mm copies of the cutdown version, from which some DVDs were subsequently made.In 2007 a group of film makers were 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. Over the next two years a consortium was put together to digitally restore the 35mm print and rerelease this directors cut on DVD in time for the 40th anniversary of the first walk on the moon. The DVD includes a directors commentary, the story of the making of the film and other features. Discovery Channel in the UK also acquired this version and transmitted it with additional material featuring producer Christopher Riley, first premiering on Monday July 20, 2009. ........

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