Footagevault Press Release July 2010
Footagevault Restores the Apollo 11 Mission Control Footage
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon on the 20th July 1969 NASA filmed the moment back on Earth with two film cameraman in the mission control nerve centre in Houston.
And whilst the footage of these young engineers has been regularly seen in the decades since, it has always lacked a synchronized sound track, which never made it into the archive along with the actual film.
But now London based Apollo aficionado Stephen Slater, working with UK based archive film company Footagevault, has painstakingly reunited the film footage with the original sound tracks from the mission, for the first time in history.
Footagevault, which sourced and supplied the archive for the Sundance award winning Film 4 feature documentary "In the Shadow of the Moon", started this process back in 2006, but only attempted it with a few seconds of footage.
Now, in time for this summer's Apollo 11 anniversary, film archivist and Moon mission fan Stephen Slater has taken it to a new level – bringing these priceless mission control moments to life for the first time in over 40 years.
"Restoring the film in this way really made me realise just how tense things were there at mission control during those minutes before Neil and Buzz made mankind's first landing on the Moon" says Stephen.
Stephen's handiwork can be seen at footagevault.com/project-MOCR-apollo-11
Read the Guardian Article here
BBC Radio West Midlands Interview:
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Notes to Editors
Footagevault is a stock photography company, founded in 2006. The company sells royalty-free and rights-managed video footage and audio clips. It currently specialises in the space flight and space exploration. The company has its head quarters in London, England. It's clients include the Discovery Channel, the BBC and Channel 4 Films.
Archive film sourced by Footagevault formed the basis of the 2007 Sundance award winning documentary feature film In the Shadow of the Moon and the spin off Discovery Channel series Moon Machines. Through their work on these projects and as a consultant to the series NASA's Greatest Missions the company has played a key role in the Discovery Channel's legacy project, working to help preserve NASA's film archive.
Footagevault's collection spans some of the greatest human achievements of the 20th century, from Sputnik 1 and Gagarin's Vostok 1 flights to the International Space Station missions, and from the first robotic lunar missions to the most iconic missions to Mars and Saturn. They hold footage of many of NASA's Shuttle and planetary missions from the 1960s to today and early Air Force experiments in human space flight; from Joe Kittinger's famous high altitude parachute jumps to the first manned capsule flights into space. As part of this collection they curate an extensive collection of Earth views filmed from orbit and historic views of how computer technology supporting the missions has changed on the ground during the last 50 years.
Notes to Editors
Footagevault is a stock photography company, founded in 2006. The company sells royalty-free and rights-managed video footage and audio clips. It currently specialises in the space flight and space exploration. The company has its head quarters in London, England. It's clients include the Discovery Channel, the BBC and Channel 4 Films.
Archive film sourced by Footagevault formed the basis of the 2007 Sundance award winning documentary feature film In the Shadow of the Moon and the spin off Discovery Channel series Moon Machines. Through their work on these projects and as a consultant to the series NASA's Greatest Missions the company has played a key role in the Discovery Channel's legacy project, working to help preserve NASA's film archive.
Footagevault's collection spans some of the greatest human achievements of the 20th century, from Sputnik 1 and Gagarin's Vostok 1 flights to the International Space Station missions, and from the first robotic lunar missions to the most iconic missions to Mars and Saturn. They hold footage of many of NASA's Shuttle and planetary missions from the 1960s to today and early Air Force experiments in human space flight; from Joe Kittinger's famous high altitude parachute jumps to the first manned capsule flights into space. As part of this collection they curate an extensive collection of Earth views filmed from orbit and historic views of how computer technology supporting the missions has changed on the ground during the last 50 years.
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