[QuadList] Fwd: [AMIA-L] NASA will release restored Apollo 11 video

[C. Park Seward]

Perhaps Jim has the best explanation.

Best,
Park

C. Park Seward
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> From: Jim Wheeler <jimwheeler at AOL.COM>
> Date: July 14, 2009 8:56:15 AM PDT
> To: AMIA-L at LSV.UKY.EDU
> Subject: Re: [AMIA-L] NASA will release restored Apollo 11 video
> Reply-To: Association of Moving Image Archivists <AMIA-L at LSV.UKY.EDU>
>
> I was involved in making the videotape recorder used to record the  
> Apollo 11 video and I am a member of a group trying to determine  
> what happened to the two original Apollo 11 tapes.  The two tapes  
> were recorded at the tracking station in Australia and these two  
> tapes have been missing for years.  We believe they were erased by a  
> technician at NASA because he could not play them.  The reason that  
> he could not play them is because it took a special machine to play  
> the Apollo 11 tapes.
>
> The moon landing videos that we now see on TV are copies of a  
> videotape that recorded the LIVE transmission from the moon off a TV  
> monitor at Houston.  I suspect that what we will see this Thursday  
> is an enhancement of the video made from a TV monitor.
>
> Jim Wheeler
>
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