{"id":7619,"date":"2014-05-02T18:28:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T22:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2014-05-02T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T00:27:53","slug":"video-in-the-shadow-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7619","title":{"rendered":"Video: “In the Shadow of the Moon”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the complete video of the award winning 2007 documentary\u00a0In the Shadow of the Moon<\/a><\/em>, directed by\u00a0David Sington<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Christopher Riley<\/a>.\u00a0The film<\/p>\n

follows the manned missions to the\u00a0Moon<\/a>\u00a0made by the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The documentary reviews both the footage and media available to the public at the time of the missions, as well as\u00a0NASA<\/a>films and materials which had not been opened in over 30 years. All of this has been sourced and\u00a0remastered<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0HD<\/a>\u00a0by the stock footage company\u00a0Footagevault<\/a>. Augmenting the archival audio and video are contemporary interviews with some survivingApollo<\/a>\u00a0era\u00a0astronauts<\/a>, including\u00a0Al Bean<\/a>,\u00a0Michael Collins<\/a>,\u00a0Buzz Aldrin<\/a>,\u00a0John Young<\/a>,\u00a0David Scott<\/a>,\u00a0Charlie Duke<\/a>,\u00a0Eugene Cernan<\/a>and\u00a0Harrison Schmitt<\/a>. The former astronauts have the only speaking roles in the movie, although occasional supplementary information is presented on screen with text and archival television footage presents the words of journalists such as\u00a0Jules Bergman<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Walter Cronkite<\/a>.\u00a0Neil Armstrong<\/a>, the first person to set foot on the Moon, declined to participate, the only surviving moon walker at the time to do so.<\/em><\/p>\n

The documentary shares its name with a\u00a0book<\/a>\u00a0by space historians\u00a0Colin Burgess<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Francis French<\/a>, and both include many original interviews with Apollo lunar astronauts. The documentary offers a view of the Apollo program that is complementary to the book and is neither a source nor a tie-in.<\/em><\/p>\n