Apollo 11 TV Broadcast - Neil Armstrong First Step on Moon

This video is a recording of the feed from Honeysuckle Creek made at Goddard. Digitized by Kipp Teague from a VHS copy of the original reel-to-reel tape.
NASA Video from Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
More information & videos: http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/video11.html#Step
Original source video: http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/ap11_goddard_HSK_1st_5_mins.mpg
SEE ALSO: NEWLY REMASTERED FOOTAGE FROM NASA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Sm4kTUGCc

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[pkonnoobs]

@iceman8067 1969 Son

[iceman8067]

don't they have a blu-ray 1080p version? Ugh.. lol

[bd048]

@lewisthecollard Sorry Lewis. I was a skeptic until I looked at all the truly bad photos from the missions (they had no viewfinder). If this was all faked then they paid the photographer too much and if Apollo 12 was fake then they would have just "handed" Alan Bean a 2nd camera. The dope (Bean) pointed a vidicon at the sun. A studio light would not have burned out the camera tube.

[bd048]

I keep getting hostile comments back. So, why don't you folks just check out how the camera was deployed on Wikipedia. Type "Apollo 11 Equipment". Since they don't allow links here that's all I can say. Anyway the camera was "set up" in the package deployment area before they left for the moon as Wikipedia shows.

[FRTothus]

@bd048 Yes, I was alive, and watched this live. If you remember, the shots first came in upside-down. There was a camera showing the LM's ladder, and then the shots of Armstrong coming down the ladder. I don't know if Uncle Walter is any kind of authority on video equipment, but I suspect he read the lines that were written for him, as was his job.  Their veracity is another matter. Again I ask: Who set up that video camera?

[lewisthecollard]

@bd048 I think you've confused me for someone that says the moon landings didn't happen. Read what I said more closely. Preaching to the converted here, buddy. :)

[bd048]

@FRTothus Yes, it would, mine did back in 1969.

[bd048]

@FRTothus So you were alive and listened and watched the whole thing or do you base this on watching a few seconds on clips. Most of this was voice transmissions only. Walter Chronkite went over how the camera would be deployed and how low quality the image would be due to the B&W videcon camera. Everything worked as hoped but many hours of 16mm film were shot because no one knew that the video would work as well as it did.

[bd048]

B&W videocon cameras were crappy but they were small and light by 1969 (I owned one that was about the size of the one used for this video). "Large" cameras were used for broadcast quality. This was what we used in college to shoot lectures too. Small and light but low quality.

[bd048]

@lewisthecollard So you were alive and listened and watched the whole thing or do you base this on watching a few seconds on clips. Most of this was voice transmissions only. Walter Chronkite went over how the camera would be deployed and how low quality the image would be due to the B&W videcon camera. Everything worked as hoped but many hours of 16mm film were shot because no one knew that the video would work as well as it did.