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Topic: Network broadcasts: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo

Space Cadet Carl
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Posts: 199
From: Lake Orion, Michigan
Registered: Feb 2006

posted 04-26-2010 10:41 AM

As much as I enjoy Spacecraft Films fabulous series of DVD sets covering the Apollo, Gemini and Mercury missions... I also really love seeing vintage CBS, NBC and ABC broadcast videotapes from those historic flights. I've noticed lately that more of these vintage network broadcast videos are starting to slowly appear more frequently on websites like YouTube.

One submitter is attempting to reconstruct the CBS launch video of Apollo 4 using Walter Cronkite's audio feed coupled with original broadcast video of the launch. You may recall that Apollo 4 did not use any water suppression or noise suppression system at launch, causing windows to be shattered six miles from Launch Complex 39 and also causing a very excited and shocked Cronkite to yell "Our window is caving in on us!!!"

This is all great stuff and I really hope that more of these CBS, NBC and ABC broadcast videotapes manage to surface. Again, I absolutely love the Spacecraft Films DVD sets... but watching the original network broadcast tapes has much more of a spine tingling sensation to it.

ea757grrl
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Posts: 729
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006

posted 04-26-2010 12:03 PM

There is a lot of amazing stuff on YouTube from network broadcasts. You often have to look around for it, since the submitters will often avoid using network names or other key terms in order to avoid detection. However, it's well worth it, and I download as much of it as I can against the possibility of it being yanked.

(As an aside: not only can you find some of the coverage itself, but you can find some of the commercials some folks may remember. For instance, there's at least one instance on YouTube of the Gulf "Bringin' Home the Oil" commercial that was used during NBC's coverage. It's awful catchy.)

One more place to look: eBay. Sometimes people will put up for auction videotapes or DVDs of network coverage, complete with commercials. Amazing stuff. Tedious, at times, but no other way lets you literally re-live it as it happened.

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