{"id":6127,"date":"2009-07-20T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6127"},"modified":"2009-07-20T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T17:23:08","slug":"apollo-11-moon-landing-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/07\/20\/apollo-11-moon-landing-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 11 Moon Landing Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landings<\/a> today and here are some videos to commemorate the event.<\/p>\n

A brief introductory snapshot:<\/p>\n

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This is NASA footage of the launch on July 16th, 1969:<\/p>\n

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This is when Neil Armstrong made ‘one giant leap for mankind’:<\/p>\n

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Buzz Aldrin becomes the 2nd man on the moon:<\/p>\n

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A montage:<\/p>\n

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Slate have done a clever job of using contemporary news footage (especially of last year’s US election) to imagine how news media would cover a moon landing today:<\/p>\n

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If you want to check out two films about the Apollo moon landings then I would recommend For All Mankind<\/a> (1989) and In The Shadow of the Moon<\/a> (2007).<\/p>\n

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> Official NASA site<\/a>
\n> Find out more about the Moon landings and Apollo 11<\/a> at Wikipedia
\n> An interview I did last year with David Sington, the director of In the Shadow of the Moon<\/a>
\n> For all the conspiracy goons, check out the trailer for the film that helped launch all those theories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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