>>As I see it the alternative would be to work with raw telemetry and voice recordings - what else would there be from Apollo 8? They already show some video of tossing film canisters around etc. What more would you expect to see?
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>1) the footage running in a postage stamp sized window starting at 1:04, full window, uncut
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>2) at 2:14-2:22 same for the background footage (or was it a single picture?) and the tiny window on the right. I want to see both, full screen, unobstructed by their silly animation. And I'm sure there was more than eight seconds of it.
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>3) whatever was worth watching is compressed into 2-28-5:20, i.e. slightly less than a half of the time the clip has. The time before this is the introduction and visual mumbo-jumbo, the time after is the "you have just seen" and the credits.
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>4) at 5:34-5:38 there's more footage taken aboard the module, but it's only an introduction to the earthside reception, again, not full frame, but with that silly imitation frame of a ship window instead.
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>I understand that if NASA even farts in the general direction of the taxpaying audience, they have to jump through the hoops to be seen as being useful to the community, and they package their products (videos, this time) as their PR and marketing teams think will be most suitable for their target audience. Which means I have already ducked and ran for shelter so their targeting misses me completely: I want to see long sequences of what was going on in and around the module, not this kind of salad of animation and 1-to-3 second cuts around an animated sound sequence. Give me raw video, supply comments in between if necessary for understanding, but show me ALL of it and don't disturb while it runs.
There's some nice footage on youtube of the apollo lunar landings and take offs which seem relatively unmessed around with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbOq-fRp5YIis Apollo15 lift off and shows Hadley Rille as the lunar module climbs.
