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This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours. Al Reinert watched all the footage shot during the missions--over 6,000,000 feet of it, and picked out the best. Instead of being a newsy, fact-filled documentary, Reinart focuses on the human aspects of the space flights. The only voices heard in the film are the voices of the astronauts and mission control. Reinart uses the astronaunts own words from interviews and mission footage. The score by Brian Eno underscores the strangeness, wonder, and beauty of the astronauts experiences which they were privileged to have for a first time "for all mankind."
The film begins with President Kennedys September 12, 1962 speech at Rice announcing the goal of going to the moon. The rest of the film, using NASA footage and the voices of Apollo astronauts, takes us on a voyage to the moon, from the donning of space suits to splashdown. Footage of the scientists and engineers in Houston is inter-cut with footage of blastoff, orbiting the earth, looking back at a receding earth from inside the space capsule, circling the moon, seeing its surface up close, landing, and scenes of the astronauts on the moons surface. They bring music with them, announce football scores, test a theory of Galileos, and reflect on the wonder of the experience.
Jim Lovell
Narrator - Apollo 8, Apollo 13
Ken Mattingly
Narrator - Apollo 16
Russell Schweickart
Narrator - Apollo 9
Eugene Cernan
Narrator - Apollo 10, Apollo 17
Michael Collins
Narrator - Apollo 11
Charles Conrad
Narrator - Apollo 12
Richard Gordon
Narrator - Apollo 12
Alan Bean
Narrator - Apollo 12
Jack Swigert
Narrator - Apollo 13
Stuart Roosa
Narrator - Apollo 14
James Irwin
Narrator - Apollo 15
Charles Duke
Narrator - Apollo 16
Harrison Schmitt
Narrator - Apollo 17
Buzz Aldrin
Self
Bill Anders
Self
Neil Armstrong
Self
Stephen Bales
Self
Frank Borman
Self
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